Vodka Poll

list taken from wiki ("list of vodkas") with somewhat arbitrary omissions to pare to 50 to make poll. Kept all US and UK and ones I've heard of.

If grey goos, ciroc or skyy wins I will come round your houses and trample your flowerbeds.

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yes I'm wondering how many votes Grey Douche will get.

btw can Ketel One print ads be any more retarded?

wait, are we voting on how they taste or how they're marketed?

they are all pretty much shit, though

Square One's alright, if you MUST

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i really like tito's.

A few days ago I drank this ($4.95/750mL):
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NOT RECOMMENDED

I rather like moskovskya as it is very dry but seriously are there many drinks worth drinking where gin is not better than clear colourless vodka.

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dont understand how anyone can tell the difference w/ like 90% of these

I rather like moskovskya as it is very dry but seriously are there many drinks worth drinking where gin is not better than clear colourless vodka.

― Ed, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:49 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

moscow mule, salty dog, and ?????

and bloody mary, I guess. But there are very few vodka drinks worth drinking.

you guys know its stolichnaya

it's not because there is moscovskya, same distillery but not as sweet.

Moscow Mule and Bloody Mary especially both better with gin, not sure of a salty dog.

as in I have never had one.

yeah gin replacing vodka in both those drinks is awesome. what's in a salty dog?

grapefruit juice

vodka, salt

my fav reasonably priced vodka:
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give this shit a try & tell 'em and what sent ya

where is Żubrówka band

Holy crap I've never had a gin Bloody Mary but it would work wouldn't it. Must try this.

salty dog is my #1 vodka drink

without the salt it's a greyhound, also delicious

im confused by these 007 ads that are saying vodka is james bond's drink of choice. is he drinking vodka straight now or did he move from real martinis to vodka martinis?

think james has always been a vodka martini guy hasnt he? also likes to shake it rather than stir which is not right at all

and surely gin would work well in a salty dog? gin + grapefruit juice are a good combo

I guess zubrowka is out as it is flavoured not straight but where is wybrowka?

I can't comment on the salty dog, but how could that not work with gin. One of my favourite summertime drinks is Oude Genever (Dutch aged gin) and grapefruit juice.

What, no Glens?

bah no zubrowka! obv stoli then

i've been buying Svedka. it's $20 for the heug bottle and it's not bad at all.

zubrowka + apple juice = perennial standby

it always saddens me when i notice the prevalence of smirnoff in this country

dont understand how anyone can tell the difference w/ like 90% of these

otm. infusions and whatnot aside, it seems to me most of the "taste" attributes of vodka are negative (i.e. if you can taste something in it, it's not made very well). all of the major brands are good enough for what limited use i need from them (mix with grapefruit juice or in a bloody mary or whatever), and none of the expensive ones are worth the cost.

mohawk

yeah. i cant taste the diff between wines or beers but i can pinpoint a vodka brand in a blind taste test. i guess its what you practice most. (xps)

howl!!!!!!!

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to me, the best vodka taste is no taste at all.

typsy mothra, basically OTM.

I do like pepper vodka, chilled and served with Russian dinner, though, but 90% of my vodka consumption is Screwdrivers, Bloody Marys (strained up), and Bloody Bulls.

I drink vodka on the rocks all the time. It's hard to explain the appeal... I actually do find it refershing, which is not something I can say about beer (though I like beer) or many other alc bevs.

NO MAJORSKA NO CREDIBILITY

i like greyhounds with vodka or gin, but a gin bloody mary, man, i don't know.

R U MAN ENOUGH???

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Something I was involved in last year was part sponsored by Brecon Vodka, which is Welsh and thus sort of local to me, so there was a shitload of free vodka which to my pleasant surprise I could drink neat and actually enjoy it. Doubt many shops carry it outside Wales though

if it comes in a plastic handle i will drink it

From the ones I've had on the list, Stoli or Moskovskaya. But the only vodka I could actually work up brand loyalty to would be Zubrowka/Grasovka (are these the same? not sure if the latter is just the name it's sold under in Germany, but I've seen imported bottles of it here too - sadly not at German prices).

To be honest I can only taste small improvements with the increase in £££ anyway, which means that the vodka purists of this thread will hate me, as I will happily buy Smirnoff (or cheaper, if I've heard of it) for mixing far more often than I'll buy something nicer to drink neat.

Yeah the biggest bottle there really carries that "dunno, bought it at a car boot sale" feel with it

xp

salty dog is my #1 vodka drink

― I DIED, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:05 (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Plus it's very very very hard for a bartender to fuck up as well.

Maybe I should tip them more.

greyhound is my go-to drink when i'm getting a cold but still want to drink.

James Bond and The New York Times prefer Smirnoff:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/dining/26wine.html

im confused by these 007 ads that are saying vodka is james bond's drink of choice. is he drinking vodka straight now or did he move from real martinis to vodka martinis?

There are plenty of instances in the books and the films where Bond drinks vodka straight.

heard Bond wises up in the new one and goes for a sazerac.

Plus it's very very very hard for a bartender to fuck up as well.

Originally gin, and now vodka (and occasionally tequila!), gimlets have been my drink for almost 10 years for this exact reason. Sort of out of place in February, though.

And after about three of them, the lime starts fucking up my throat. But otherwise A++++ would be hungover again.

Lauren has plied me with grass vodka and fancy-pants apple juice and I would probably follow that cocktail anywhere. Lead on!

real lime juice tho, rose's lime juice is way too sickly sweet and a lot of places still use that

Okay why no mention of the Dan Akroyd supernatural vodka filtered through diamonds and bottle in a cosmic Mayan prophecy legend of the occult?

It costs the same, or less, than your average top-shelf vodka (ie Ketel One).

Roses's IS too sweet, but unless the booze is top-shelf the sugar goes a long way in softening the taste.

It also goes a long way towards a sugar crash, but that's another discussion.

I wish I could get the vodka made in Idaho from good, honest Idaho potatoes, but I no longer live in Idaho.

Rose's is bad news bears.

Go to the Mexican grocery & get like a half-gallon of real lime juice for half the price.

Hah! I'd just squeeze actual limes at home, but I'm not carrying a bottle of juice to the bar with me.

cutting the gimlet with a little sweetness is a-ok with me tho i love limes, but rose's is too too much

Vanil. Stoli Vanil.

Ketel on the rocks, double lime.

Used to love the greyhound and salty dog until I spent 12 hours womiting them. Puking grapefruit juice is the worst.

belvedere. maybe ketel one but its been awhile since i've had it

barton uses the charcoal filter to get rid of the bathtub scum

Belvedere is a good sipping vodka.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

anyone ever infused their own vodka? we did this last week with vanilla beans in belvedere and tried it in a variety of drinks with pleasant results (pleasant in that i normally don't like vodka)

this should have gone:
Stolichnaya
Finlandia
Grey Goose

I think to be very honest it would be hard for me to distinguish between most of these vodkas in blind tests.

I guess zubrowka is out as it is flavoured not straight but where is wybrowka?

― Ed, Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 17:08 (3 years ago)

it's wyborowa iirc, and yes, it's sorely lacking from this poll.

as is mernaya (Мърная).

LOL at Ketel One coming in second. Didn't know Ray Smuckles posts on here.

We should do another one for the best potato vodka. Cause potato > grain ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!

i'd like to know more about vodka. the best one pound for pound is Danoff, a Latvian vodka you can buy at Waitrose for only about £12 but is super smooth.

the worst was a vodka my friend infused with about a billion red hot chillies. I like vodka and I like spicy things but that was like drinking pickled sunburn.

lol we just made some chilli vodka. We used Russian Standard, which is missing from this poll, and is pretty good IMO.

What joker voted for Smirnoff?

i remember smirnoff winning a blind taste test that the nyt did