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- NYC83, on 11/30/2007, -1/+18let's see budweiser super premium vodka. is that 'super premium vodka' like budweiser select is premium craft beer. riiiight.
- Ajajadude, on 11/30/2007, -0/+14There are plenty of American beers that are significantly better than Budweiser.
- schroeder, on 11/30/2007, -1/+14No it's not dumbass.
- geekchic, on 11/30/2007, -3/+13Considering how weak and insipid Budweiser's beer is - I dread to think what they are planning to produce for Vodka.
I'll stick to Budvar for beers and Finlandia for vodka. - skyshock1, on 11/30/2007, -1/+11Ugh... This is like SPAM saying that they're going to come out with premium deli meats.
- themouth, on 11/30/2007, -0/+10I'm gonna have to call shenanigans. I've had them all, I'm a mixologist, a liquor guy, and I make enough money to afford pretty much whatever I want. Vodka has about four grades, rotgut, only good for mixing with a strong mixer, overall good, and overpriced.
Saying that Ketel One is "very pure" is like saying that a Porsche is very yellow. Purity with vodka is a basic component, alcohols are regulated by both the ATF and the Food and Drug Commission (or their foreign counterparts) and are essentially all "pure". Most of your cheap vodkas are actually the "purest" having been over-filtered to compensate for the poor maturation process which is what gives you the "burn" and hangover. - PATSCRU, on 11/30/2007, -2/+12I heard that one of the biggest proponents of the usda's re-defining of the word "organic" was Annheiser-Busch. They wanted the rules for organic definitons loosened, so they could make a beer with no organic hops whatsoever, but still call it organic. Anyone know if this vodka is in the same boat? Does anyone know which ingredients in the vodka are actually organic?
- Topher06, on 11/30/2007, -1/+10Yeah, just from the name it sounds like they will take grain alcohol and filter it 10 times to the point where its tasteless, and then call in premium vodka.
- NYC83, on 11/30/2007, -1/+10no. not all craft beer is hyper hopped (though that style is popular in the US)...what i'm saying is that bud/bud light/bud select are nothing more than dirty alcoholic water
- romistrub, on 11/30/2007, -1/+9You think budweiser is high quality? Have you had Paulaner? Warsteiner? Lowenbrau? You're deluded if you think Bud is in the same league as most German beer.
- J-roc, on 11/30/2007, -3/+11Well at least they are environmentally friendly, we'll just need to see how it stands up against Grey Goose and Ketel One
- Goodbyeworld, on 11/30/2007, -4/+12Much like budweiser, it will taste like water.
- Error601, on 11/30/2007, -0/+8Vodka pretty much tastes like what you mix it with. Remind me not to try your special cocktails.
- kertong, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7Q: What does budweiser and a couple having sex on the beach have in common?
A: ***** close to water. *ba-dum-pssssshhhh* - LongShlong, on 11/30/2007, -2/+9The next echelon of white trash.
- Berkana, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6Czechvar you mean? (http://www.czechvar.com/ )
They've used the trade name Budweiser in the Czech republic for something like 200 years, and call their beer "the Beer of Kings." The Czechs think its a travesty that Anheuser-Busch names their crap "Budweiser". - Urusai, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6My taste buds convince me of that.
- Error601, on 11/30/2007, -1/+6You can actually taste a difference? Absolut is the most I'll pay for Vodka since it's by definition tasteless. Of course I'm also a beer person and go for a good malty brew most of the time. I do use vodka to fill up the airlock in my fermenter.
- jkremer3, on 11/30/2007, -1/+6*opinion on product that is made to sound like fact and display my intelligence of alcohol*
- Error601, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5Well, that is how it's done. Then of course you need to cool looking bottle. You can even buy cheap stuff and filter it yourself if you've got more free time than free cash.
- cnot3, on 11/30/2007, -1/+6"they are pretty much the best thing to drink on the rocks" Uh, Scotch?! :)
- cnot3, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5As a college student, I've tried it, and brita-filtered skol vodka is no where near ketel one or grey goose. It still tastes like *****. Ketel One is the best, imo. You can get a handle at Costo for $35, so do your liver a favor.
- Berkana, on 11/30/2007, -2/+7Before we even compare it to Grey Goose, it must beat Brita-filtered vodka. (from http://disjointed.org/archives/2004/11/brita_filte ... if you don't remember. The original site, http://www.ohmygoditburns.com/ seems to be gone.) Ketel-One failed to beat 4-pass Brita filtered vodka.
A friend of mine and I did a double-blind taste test of filtered cheap crap vodka against Belvedere, Chopin, and Grey Goose, and the 5-pass filtered cheap vodka beat both Belvedere and Chopin, but failed to beat Grey Goose. 90%+ of the quality of good vodka comes from the lack of badness, but a filter removes flavor indiscriminately; it cannot add subtle good flavors.
(The Mythbusters also did a double blind taste test of filtered vodka vs. "top shelf" vodka–I could tell it was Grey Goose from the look of the bottle even with the logo hidden. What they found was that though filtration made cheap vodka better, it didn't make it better than their premium vodka.) - fiorenza, on 11/30/2007, -4/+9The "premium" vodka market begins at the swill they call "Absolut" (which they charge a ridiculous amount for). It's mostly all *****, except Ketel One which is extremely pure except for their Citron variant.
- skyshock1, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4Too late. Budweiser use rice in their beer. RICE! IN BEER!
Beer = water + malt + barley + hops + yeast
Put rice in it and you have ***** carbonated sake. - Nossie, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4yep, you sound like it too :)
- Berkana, on 11/30/2007, -2/+6As long as Anheuser-Busch stays the hell away from making sake, I'll keep my peace.
- SquigglyP, on 11/30/2007, -1/+5unless you replace the gin with vodka. Who'da thunk.
(or what i do... just mix gin and vodka together with an olive in it.) - brufleth, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3I was given a Budweiser Select at a bar once as a promotional thing. Am I the only one who thought it tasted like I was drinking cardboard? If anything it was worse than their regular crap beer. I didn't even finish it and it was FREE beer!
- whataboutdave, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3What the hell kind of vodka have you been drinking? The good stuff is basically tasteless.
- oslointhesummer, on 11/30/2007, -2/+5No, organic means without chemical fertilizers and/or pesticides.
- arobar, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3We're in the Digg comments section here, I think it's obvious that we all want to be pedantic.
- brad77, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3I suppose that depends on how strict your definition of beer is. There's generally more to it than that. It's like saying that cake is sugar, flour, eggs and butter, and that anything else isn't cake. I suppose that could be true, but often it's not.
There are a lot of great beers out there that fail to meet the definition set forth by the German Purity Law of 1516.
But yeah, if you want to be pedantic, you're right. - cheesehead, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3GMO rice!!
- xrisnothing, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Vodka is supposed to be a clear, oderless and flavorless alcohol.
- cnot3, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3You must never have had a decent vodka.
- ShokDoktor, on 11/30/2007, -1/+3Budweiser is a ***** beer anyway.
- MixMastaKooz, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2Don't you mean that the cheap ass vodka is under filtered? Put a cheap vodka through a charcoal filter about 5 times, and it gets rather smooth (use a britta filter, I'm not kidding)
- kickelephant, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2If you read the article, you would know why it is named so..
- SpudgeBoy, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2Does anybody think Starbucks has good coffee?
- dime, on 11/30/2007, -1/+3***** A!
Titos is my crack. $17.50 for a 750 by me, and it's as good if not better than the "premium" vodkas like Belvedere or Goose. - triv036, on 11/30/2007, -1/+3But I like that burn.
- Berkana, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2The question is, how many times did you filter it? I used Kavlana, which was the cheapest vodka I could get at BevMo. But for sure, the subtleties of luxury vodkas are lost if you mix drinks with them, so for my preference, filtered vodka is the best value for mixers, and recipes that call for alcohol as a solvent for otherwise insoluble flavors. (For example, tomato sauces.)
- rnelsonee, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2Yeah, that Mythbuster's was nuts. They had a professional vodka taster, and while it's not too surprising that he was able to pick out the good vodka from the crap vodka, it was crazy to see him rank the cheap vodka from 1-6, depending on how many times it was filtered (one shot was unfiltered, one was filtered once, another one twice.. etc.)
I'm kind of ruined on random liquor-store vodka though, after going to a bar that catered to Russians (it's down the street from the Russian embassy in DC) - I never new straight vodka could actually taste *good*, and the flavored stuff was downright tasty. If anyone knows vodkas that taste good without mixers, let me know.. - ZenFountain, on 11/30/2007, -1/+3Popov vodka, it gets ya drunk!
- Mothrog, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2With a nice splitting rot gut headache in the morning, for that genuine Russian bum experience.
- SpudgeBoy, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2Learn something new everyday.
"Gin is a spirit flavoured with juniper berries. Distilled gin is made by redistilling white grain spirit which has been flavoured with juniper berries. Compound gin is made by flavouring neutral grain spirit with juniper berries without redistilling and can be considered a flavoured vodka." - omega6, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2I prefer the term "It's like sex in a canoe"
But that one's ok too I suppose. - SpudgeBoy, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2Because it's ***** RICE. It has no flavor to put in a combination. It's RICE!
- brufleth, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2I tried this and the filtered cheap stuff still has the cheap vodka flavor. It just isn't as over powering. Also, I'm pretty sure that running vodka through a Brita actually removes some of the alcohol.
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