It will, of course, provided your friends are as shallow as you are.

Drink up!

Mr. Gunn

charlah

hejustlaughs

It's made from Canadian winter wheat, and it is so smooth, I swear it feels almost soft in your mouth!

stacy75

As for the GG, Ketel and Smirnoff advocates: time to step up to some real vodka that sells on its taste, not its image. Try Moskovskaya -- so good you won't want to mix it -- or for a really premium drink Youri Dolgoruki.

P.s. what does it take to get moderated around here???

theczardictates

Awww...are we shilling today?

New account + that was your only comment, ever = go fuck yourself.

LUV2CattleCall

Oh, and if you guys actually WATCHED that episode of mythbusters, even after using the Brita pitcher on the Vodka, the professional taster could STILL tell the difference and Karrie liked the cheap stuff prior to filtering anyway.

I'll have to try some of those other brands assuming I can find them in the liquor stores here.

MrEvil

1) 200% less is indeed incorrect. "Two times less," which hurts the heads of mathematicians, is standard English for one-half as much ("n times less" = 1/nth), but would only be validly expressed as a percentage with "50% less."

2) What do you get when you distill pot?

bobpence

The fact that it's made from corn, made in Texas, and made by a guy named Tito, kept me from trying it for quite a while.

JeffCarr

Smackdown

It's hands down the best vodka I've ever tried, and at a ridiculously reasonable price too. You'll probably have to order it online (I got mine for shoppersvinyard.com). But at 18.99 or so per 750, it blows Grey Goose, Shakers, and Reyka out of the water.

Try it. You can thank me later.

(Oh, and when you're getting that, pick up a bottle of 15 year old El Dorado rum. Simply delicious.)

JeffCarr

I know there's little difference between the premium vodka brands. For drinking/shooting, they're all good. Subtly different, but almost the same. For mixing, there's no need to spend $30 for a fifth. Something inoffensive but inexpensive like Svedka (ding ding) is fine.

Vodka is, in its purest form, just alcohol and water. Impurities creep in, and give it flavor (same as any other spirit).

Mr_D

i'll stick with svedka. Big handles of decent stuff for 20 bucks.

Unless you're a girl, you aint having martinis.

Nicholas_schaulsohn

@Darren W.: I prefer drinking Ketel One, but Svedka is an excellent value. I agree with you, it's heads and shoulders above Smirnoff... and it's cheap.

COELACANTH

GearheadGeek

@Mr_D:
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mikelotus

I don't even come close to believing they care.

"GREEN" is now the biggest marketing gimmick out there. Funny thing is: Most of the things these places do to be "green" actually can save them a lot of money, possibly allowing them to lower prices and not need to mention their "greeness" in those overpriced ads, some of which aren't very green (billboard with lights, using up paper in magazines and other print adds, and so on).

Lo-Pan

Lo-Pan

jeff303

rmz

It turned the most vile substance intended for human consumption, Popov, into the second most vile substance intended for human consumption. I only filtered it about 4 times though, but I doubt more would somehow give me Belvedere.

@mikelotus: Tell me you can't taste the difference between Ketel One and Popov, I dare you.

To get on topic, I tend to avoid "green" products anyway. If "carbon footprint" bothers you so much, it's probably more efficient to just buy normal stuff, and then buy some carbon "offsets" (indulgences).

Mr_D

zibby

OscarPorkchop

The haters posting here have obviously not drank this, because it is quite good; very smooth and gentle in flavor, great in a martini (though I preferred the organic beers).

Take note, this is not an organic drink, but rather a company with green practices. They take steps to reduce their foot print, encourage recycling (even including a SASE to return the normally un-recyclable part of their packaging), and present a "greener" face. As has been pointed out, they are flawed in their efforts, but they are doing some things right.

Overall, this is not a zero-footprint company, but they are trying to do the right things for the right reasons.

Stop hating until you try, and go green people!

Namtab

X% more, or $FRACTION of, are acceptable means to express differences. Our competition uses 200% more energy, we use 1/3 the energy of the competition, for example.

beavis88

I imagine consuming this crapahol produces a lot of "post-consumer waste."

humorbot

laserjobs

eelmonger

zibby

mikelotus

E.g.,

Pot Distiller uses 100 W.

Crappy Eco vodka uses 33 W.

That's 77% less energy than pot distiller...

Skiffer

You're getting confused about your basis. If I use 1000 kW of energy, 50% less is 500 kW compared to a basis of 1000 kW. If I'm using 500 kW, moving to 1000 kW is a 100% increase from a basis of 500 kW. Another way of saying that is that 1000 kW is 200% of 500 kW. But you can't exceed a 100% decrease moving down.

RINO-Marty

RINO-Marty

eelmonger

eelmonger

ptkdude

I had to check, because I couldn't actually believe they would make that comment. Another winning comment is that their "Outer shipper (read: cardboard box) is developed for infinite reuses such as: storage, filing, stacking and easy moving with Built In handles."

redragon104

[www.vodka360.com]

redragon104

ARP

for shame.

bobblack555

stacye

They say they do lots of other stuff, like use locally grown grains, have a distillery that uses 200% less energy than pot distillers

rmz

Darren W.

Claim denied.

zentec

If this doesn't prove that global warming is all about making money, I don't know what else it could be.

dialmelo

nrich239

BigElectricCat

Carefully remove the closure and drop it into the pre-paid envelope and 360 will donate $1.00 for every closure returned to recognized environmental causes.

The first step in environmentalism is reduce. How about not printing envelopes for us to mail stuff, and then making us mail it (mailing something requires the use of fossil fuels) and just donating more money to the causes they claim to believe in.

suburbancowboy

FreeMarketGravy

Wormfather

ptkdude

And dont try to lie, I see Caroline's on the right hand side of the picture!

Wormfather

thirdbase

BalknChain