Don’t Drink Grey Goose Unless You’re
A College Drunk
The Federalist,
by
Christopher Bedford
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
11/28/2020 2:12:20 PM
I was re-watching “The Sopranos” the other day. (Snip) I was jolted by a jarringly inauthentic moment. An alleged Russian mobster pours drinks for himself and Tony Soprano… of Grey Goose vodka.
Now, I realize the French have made quite a reputation for themselves in matters of gastronomy and intoxication. (Snip)
But vodka, vodka we know.
(Snip) there is no such thing as “craft vodka.” Vodka is vodka, and there are only two kinds of it (Snip)There’s the good kind, which tastes like melted ice and allows you to conduct your business in the morning, and the bad kind, which comes in a plastic bottle and tastes like a draining fluid hangover,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mathman 11/28/2020 2:21:21 PM (No. 618679)
Ouch. Double ouch. Any alcohol solution, when distilled, will release the alcohol at a specific temperature, from which it is condensed back into a liquid. This is not a secret.
So precise controls over temperature are the sole criterion of Vodka-ness.
Pay or don't pay. But get the stuff which is alcohol and nothing else.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mushroom 11/28/2020 2:40:02 PM (No. 618686)
In the last High School I went to they had a 'home room' system. Through your entire HS 'career' you would start with the same room/teacher. Mine was the chemistry/science teacher, Mr West. A retired AF radar tech. (I guess I could blame him for my future :) )
So anyway the very last class day as a senior, he closed the door and gave what was apparently a well thought out 'How to adult' lecture. He had NEVER spoken to us like this before.
After the honesty pays and some other really good pieces of advice, he wrote on the chalk board to buy the CHEAPEST vodka and then work your way up until it tasted like you might survive the next day. I took that to heart.
Fusel oils and other by products of distillation need to be removed from the finished product. Ethanol is the same as US made as it is USSR..Grain or potatoes, it's still (npi) C2H5OH.
Cheap Person tip. Take a PVC (ideally a SS tube), cap one end after drilling a couple holes in it, fill with activated charcoal. (rinse dust from charcoal in water before or after installation) now pour cheap vodka into top, allow to filter to bottom in to a catch pan/bottle. Taste. MUCH better? The learn to do this often or buy better vodka!
Those of you wealthy folks, welcome to MY side of the tracks. :)
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 11/28/2020 2:51:41 PM (No. 618697)
These people never heard of Sauterne?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 11/28/2020 3:06:06 PM (No. 618721)
Tito’s - it can kill you or raise you up from the dead - maybe both. Pour over ice with a few olives running around in there and you have it - the breakfast of champions!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JL80863 11/28/2020 3:50:49 PM (No. 618756)
Endorsed to the point of incoherence by Hillary every day.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Anaverageguy 11/28/2020 3:51:16 PM (No. 618757)
Why drink vodka when there is Hendrick's Gin?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
The Other Guy 11/28/2020 3:54:22 PM (No. 618761)
The author was probably disappointed in Jagermeister because he tried it in the wrong place. The proper way to drink it is while sitting around a campfire after a snowy day of deer hunting in the Rocky Mountains. And if conditions are right; if you are with some long-time hunting buddies, the snow has ended, the sky is clear and you can see the Milky Way by stepping away from the fire light, another tin cup of Jagermeister will eliminate your regret about not filling your license on the last day of hunting season.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
zoidberg 11/28/2020 4:31:32 PM (No. 618785)
#4, I was with you right up to the olives. Who needs a salad in the morning?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 11/28/2020 4:46:40 PM (No. 618805)
Ciroc is a French vodka is made from grapes and is the only vodka I can drink. And that’s only if I’m out of Jameson
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As a Baltimore Colts fan in the early seventies I despised Joe Namath, for obvious reasons. However, I respected the fact that - as an American patriot - he never drank Russian-made vodka.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mushroom 11/28/2020 5:03:49 PM (No. 618816)
Echoing #7, if a friend offers you Jagermeister and he reaches for the shelf...just walk away calmly lest his (her) madness be contagious.
Snow is a basic ingredient, as is a good bourbon to warm you later, but yes Virginia, outdoors is a basic requirement. Even *I* take my wheelchair out in the snow to partake. My viewpoint is *if* I am unable to return to home I would have died doing something I loved. :)
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 11/28/2020 6:26:37 PM (No. 618858)
I don’t think Knob Creek makes anything but the best whiskey ever...so not interested! Oh and I don’t drink anything anymore!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
abuela10 11/28/2020 6:30:16 PM (No. 618863)
Cosco's Kirkland vodka is actually made by Grey Goose but much cheaper
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lakerman1 11/28/2020 6:49:16 PM (No. 618874)
I believe the legal definition of Vodka is that it is an odorless, colorless, alcohol drink.
And while I eschew the broth of the devil, I used to be pretty good at alcohol consumption.
One of my favorite substances in Germany was served at an off-limits bar in Weisbaden. (Off limits because most of the customers were World War II veterans who dressed up in their forbidden uniforms.)
The drink was called busenfreund, or something like that. (My gasthaus German is somewhat limited.)
It was wicked.
And while stationed in France, I sometimes drank Pernod, which is an anise tasting yellow liquid that turned orange and cloudy when water was added. When I ordered Pernod at one bar, the owner told me he refused to stock it, because it was unfair to his customers.
Finally, I learned in Economics 101 that there is such a thing as a backward bending demand curve for diamonds, scotch, and fur coats. I suppose Vodka could be added to the list.
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My drink of desperative financial choice during my college days was Boonsfarm strawberry wine (and emetic).
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
FormerDem 11/28/2020 7:04:35 PM (No. 618885)
Hm. The Russians I have met mock Stoli. and the stuff they buy in Russia is unbelievable. Even the stuff they think is cheap, is incredibly better. You can't believe this stuff came out of potatoes. It is nothing like anything sold in the US. it smells like a flower, so help me that is true. I don't know any gangsters but why be a gangster if you have to drink melted ice? No, no, they drink good vodka and we never saw it here.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
HoneymoonGal 11/28/2020 7:44:46 PM (No. 618899)
Personally, I love my Glenfiddich...or the scotch my sister brought me back from Scotland when I'm wanting a drink...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/28/2020 8:42:55 PM (No. 618928)
Potato Juice or Russian Wine ... The best Vodka is that which departs your body.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
dirtyjersey 11/29/2020 12:38:29 AM (No. 618995)
Grey Goose is actually pretty good. I find Belvedere from Poland to be spot on as well.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
FLCracker 11/29/2020 11:01:27 AM (No. 619230)
#7, I find that Jaegermeister reminds me of Vick's Formula 44 Cough Syrup before they changed it.
When I was young, VF 44 was the wine of choice for the under-12 set. That's why they changed it, all us poor little kids developing a chronic cough.
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Chris Bedford torpedos the vodka snobs. Why would anyone buy pricey French vodka - especially one that tastes like plastic bottle vodka (albeit in glass) but at a greatly inflated price?