/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16608187]

is this shit any good? my boomer parents have been shilling it a lot lately.

[Anonymous No.16608190]

>>16608187
>premium vodka

[Anonymous No.16608195]

>>16608187
I've never been much into vodka. I feel like it's always mixed into cocktails where other flavors are dominant.
Should I be using a glencairn to taste/sniff test different vodkas?

[Anonymous No.16608211]

>>16608187
I buy it regularly. Tastes like alcohol.

[Anonymous No.16608214]

>>16608187
Unlikely. I have been to Iceland and had a few of the local spirits. They were mediocre at best.

[Anonymous No.16608326]

>>16608187
stoli is better and cheaper

[Anonymous No.16608563]

>>16608195
Nope. If it's mid-grade then you're drinking the best quality there is.

[Anonymous No.16608723]

>>16608195
If you don't want to vomit when you shoot it/chug from the bottle, you're fine. Don't pay more than you have to for vodka

[Anonymous No.16608731]

it's nothing special but I sometimes buy it because it reminds me of good times in Reykjavik. Inoffensive overall which is all you can really expect from a vodka

[Anonymous No.16609297]

>>16608326
reyka is cheaper than stoli everywhere

[Anonymous No.16609301]

>>16609297
Not that anon but in the UK Stoli is about 30% cheaper than Reyka everywhere. It's also better like anon said.

[Anonymous No.16609341]

>>16608187
i've only had that like once and i hate alcohol and haven't had any since like jan, but for some reason i want a drink now

>>16608326
stoli is the good shit simply because i love russian alcoholics

[Anonymous No.16609416]

>>16608187
reyka's fine. monopolowa's better.

[Anonymous No.16609478]

>>16608187
I think so. It's a very clean vodka; little burn and almost no flavor, which makes it dangerous. Good to drink straight or mixed and decently priced.

[Anonymous No.16610811]

Too expensive like $32 a handle. I just drink Svedka. But Reyka is very clean.

[Anonymous No.16610823]

>>16608187
>premium vodka
ODERLESS
FLAVORLESS
COLORLESS
DEVOID OF ALL CONTENT AND CHARACTER
BY. LAW.
Premium vodkas are a SCAM!

[Anonymous No.16610837]

i just take the booze cruise to estonia and buy this in bulk

it's cheap, tastes like alcohol and does the trick

[Anonymous No.16610857]

vodka isn't fit for human consumption

[Anonymous No.16610909]

>>16610837
I remember drinking this in Tartu
not bad stuff

[Anonymous No.16610913]

Its fine, but i prefer titos.

[Anonymous No.16610920]

>>16609297
That's simply not true.

Here is my local pricing in the US


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[Anonymous No.16610923]

>>16610920
>>16609297
2 of 2

[Anonymous No.16611014]

>>16608187
premium vodka is a fad to scam retarded millennials who don't know how to buy cheap vodka. Pic related, it's cheap at 17.99 a handle where I live, it tastes like nothing, and it goes down smooth. Compare to some garbage like tito's or OP's pic, which regularly go for 25-$30 a handle but taste like shit, the choice is obvious.

[Anonymous No.16611020]

>>16611014
If you think tito's tastes like shit, you don't like good vodka.

Tito's is one of the best in it's price range, at least in the US. No idea what it costs elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.16611146]

>>16611020
vodka is vodka you fucking mong, as long as it doesn't taste like battery acid or pure ethanol then who gives a shit? Nobody sips on vodka, they get drunk on it, hence why most people care about the price, not the taste. If you want to be pretentious about the taste of your liquor then go to the whiskey threads.

[Anonymous No.16611821]

>>16611014
Came here to post this. Blows Tito's out of the water and at least around here it's much cheaper. Those handles nearly ruined me.

[Anonymous No.16611875]

>>16611014
>>16611821
PLAT 7 is where it's at.

[Anonymous No.16611881]

>>16608723
Dude clean your fucking fridge!

[Anonymous No.16611885]

>>16609341
>because i love russian alcoholics
Stoli's from Latvia dude

[Anonymous No.16611895]

>>16608190
Drink Zyr then return.

[Anonymous No.16611935]

>>16608187
>$20 for a 750
Honestly, seems fine for vodka.

I'd still just stick with Smirnoff.

[Anonymous No.16611951]

>>16611146
>Anthony Bourdain doing his travel show
>In Russia
>At a restaurant, waitress goes up to them highly concerned because they hadn't drank enough vodka yet

[Anonymous No.16612270]

>>16608187
It's pretty good honestly. Depends on the price you're paying but yeah. Unless you're mixing, then no. Just get a big giant bottle of Popov, which is the greatest cheap vodka. Mixes fine and tastes good on its own.

[Anonymous No.16612291]

>>16608187
It's good, yeah. Not like Belvedere or Ketel, but it's good.

Ultimately, vodka is vodka, UNTIL you get the bottom shelf. The bottom shelf will quite literally destroy your gut, and you will almost be guaranteed to be puking before the end of the night.

[Anonymous No.16612301]

Vodka is the spirit whose quality is least connected to price. It's basically all the same drek but with different packaging to convince you its different. The whole point of vodka is to not have taste

[Anonymous No.16612331]

>>16612301
no

[Anonymous No.16612333]

>>16608723
That reminds me of a few weeks ago where the only local liqour store forget to restock Sobieski and had ran out of Tito's, so instead of more bottom-barrel options I tried this shit called Wheatleys.
The first shot went down OK with a preemptive can of seltzer, but after that the aftertaste shone through, and it made me vomit on the second. God, even Everclear goes down much nicer than this.
And my dumb alcoholic ass actually braved on and almost finished the fifth, nearly or actually vomiting every time, but mostly in my mouth. It was such an effort to keep it down that I didn't get into a good booze zone for the most of it.

And the other hand: absolutely no hangover.

[Anonymous No.16612341]

>>16611146
>Nobody sips on vodka, they get drunk on it, hence why most people care about the price, not the taste.
I'm with you on the latter, but I have met plenty of people who sipped on vodka like tasting fine wine. And well, I guess they aren't wrong that specific vodka can be determined by taste independent of just ALC%.
But yeah, tasting is for wine, sake, beer, etc.

[Anonymous No.16612371]

>>16612301
>Vodka is the spirit whose quality is least connected to price.
>The whole point of vodka is to not have taste
Not quite. The point of vodka is to make a liquor which can be readily and simply poured and consumed from the bottle by most people looking to get inebriated.
Rectified spirits are the least connected to price, and advertise themselves on being neutral ethanol to be added to something else for a cost-effective increase in alcohol content. And not meant to be consumed straight (though people do).

Now, you can make vodka from rectified spirits, but you are fundamentally changing the potency and portability of the spirit in the process.

[Anonymous No.16612396]

>>16612301
If it has a black plastic cap its rotgut

[Anonymous No.16612439]

>>16612301
Vodka quality doesn't vary as much at the high end as other spirits but the bottom shelf stuff is absolutely undrinkable. I'm not saying you have to buy Grey Goose but don't drink Vlad either

[Anonymous No.16612532]

>>16611885
oh okay