The Poojer Posted June 15, 2009 Author Posted June 15, 2009 hey DC, there is a company here in richmond making potato vodka, its called Cirrus (sp), it is pretty good, as for taste...i have tried a bunch of vodka's in my life and not one has 'tasted' like water, which to me is tasteless. If you are in a VA ABC store check it out..... ...and don't give us all that BS....we all know the only power tools you and your manly friends play with are the one's you and your friends wives and g/f's own to compensate for the lack of stimulation you are able to give them....... I didn't mean to offend. By all means, if you want to enjoy your little girly-ass drink while watching "Beaches" and waxing your balls, go right ahead. I'll be out in the garage with the other men, slamming down shots of real vodka while we play with power tools and fart and scratch ourselves and tell dirty jokes and make fun of our wives. (Actually, seriously...vodka is supposed to be completely tasteless. "Flavored vodka" is truly an oxymoron, to a purist. Which I personally am, about my vodka. Which is why I also don't consider Popov a vodka as much as "a vodka-labelled substance bearing a close resemblance to shellac solvent.")
Reed83HOF Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 hey DC, there is a company here in richmond making potato vodka, its called Cirrus (sp), it is pretty good, as for taste...i have tried a bunch of vodka's in my life and not one has 'tasted' like water, which to me is tasteless. If you are in a VA ABC store check it out..... ...and don't give us all that BS....we all know the only power tools you and your manly friends play with are the one's you and your friends wives and g/f's own to compensate for the lack of stimulation you are able to give them....... Nice comeback... Get the guy a nice ice cold Amaretto Sour
Booster4324 Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 "Flavored vodka" is an oxymoron, even if it's Absolut. Vodka is not supposed to have flavor. If you're drinking vodka and you can taste the vodka, you're not drinking vodka. If you're drinking vodka and you can taste tea, you're not drinking vodka, you're drinking some fru-fru faggoty-ass umbrella-wearing cosmopolitan mixer featured on Sex And The City. And Absolut's overrated anyway - less a good vodka than good marketing. I prefer Finlandia (good, not great), or Stoli (great, not cheap). Well, I prefer Stoli as well. Tom is sorta right, in that Vodka (the word) is derived from water. Still, when drunk neat, vodka does have a distinct taste. Chilling it cuts the taste. There have been flavored vodkas in the past though. http://www.cocktailtimes.com/dictionary/history_vodka.shtml Oh and Tom, I know you will say they aren't vodkas, but... http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activit.../5208199-1.html We bought blue curacao one time. It was an accident and no one else in our chain carried it. The manager announced a contest to create a new drink. The other bartenders all wanted to get rid of it, so we agreed to use it in our contest to try and get rid of it (it is really just blue triple sec) as usually none of those drinks catch on. So I created one that was: 1/4 ounce of Stoli Citros (Citrus) Stoli Cranberi (Cranberry) Stoli Ohranj (Orange) Stoli Strasberi (Strawberry) Blue Curacao Splash of sour Splash of OJ Splash of 7 up It was actually pretty close to some other shooter whose name escapes me. Well, I rolled my drink out. The girls from the other restaurants (we had a huge restaurant crowd) loved it. In fact, it became so popular that we had to order more blue curacao. My original name for it was Cloudy Windex (remember I never expected it to get popular) but it got changed. One of the other bartenders complained to me he was getting requests for it and asked me how to make it. I told him the name and he said it sounds more like a Pain In The Ass (eight ingredients). So right after that I started having people call it that. I was able to get them to shorten it to PITA. My then wife (now ex) came in one night and said, "Oh is that your new drink? Did you name it after me?" I was able to reply, "Why yes dear."
Nanker Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 Skipped over this today and just got to it. I'm pissin' meself with laughter. Fris - decent & inexpensive. Then again, so was Domaine Ste. Michelle champenoise-style bubbly... Cheers!
Chef Jim Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 So I created one that was: 1/4 ounce of Stoli Citros (Citrus) Stoli Cranberi (Cranberry) Stoli Ohranj (Orange) Stoli Strasberi (Strawberry) Blue Curacao Splash of sour Splash of OJ Splash of 7 up Dude, that is not a drink. That's a puke primer.
Nanker Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 Dude, that is not a drink. That's a puke primer. Lock and load. Lock and load.
Booster4324 Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 Dude, that is not a drink. That's a puke primer. Actually, it is quite smooth. It has a very fruity taste. It does tend to clock in at around 60 proof though. So the guys had reason to order them for the girls.
DC Tom Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 1/4 ounce ofStoli Citros (Citrus) Stoli Cranberi (Cranberry) Stoli Ohranj (Orange) Stoli Strasberi (Strawberry) Blue Curacao Splash of sour Splash of OJ Splash of 7 up What, no peach schnapps?
DC Tom Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 Actually, it is quite smooth. It has a very fruity taste. It does tend to clock in at around 60 proof though. So the guys had reason to order them for the girls. I've had fruit with less fruit taste than you poured into that abortion...may as well add pickle juice.
Booster4324 Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 What, no peach schnapps? Wasn't for me. Of course I did use all those vodkas that aren't vodkas. When I drink straight shots, I drink Rumplemintz or chilled Stoli or Grey Goose.. So you can tease me about my peppermint schnapps if you want, of course it is 101 proof schnapps... What no reply to this? In 1716, owning distilleries became the exclusive right of the nobility, who were granted further special rights in 1751. In the following 50 or so years there was a proliferation of types of aromatised vodka, but no attempt was made to standardise the basic product. Types produced included; absinthe, acorn, anisette, birch, calamus root, calendula, cherry, chicory, dill, ginger hazelnut, horseradish, juniper, lemon, mastic, mint, mountain ash, oak, pepper, peppermint, raspberry, sage, sorrel, wort and water melon.
Booster4324 Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 I've had fruit with less fruit taste than you poured into that abortion...may as well add pickle juice. What part of, you weren't my target audience do you not get?
DC Tom Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 What part of, you weren't my target audience do you not get? I think maybe I am. Your target audience for that drain cleaner was "People I don't like and, if I can't kill them, would like to drive away for all eternity," right? I mean...I've GOT to be in that audience...
RayFinkle Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 What part of, you weren't my target audience do you not get? If you were trying to score with Poojer, Cloudy Windex would probably do the trick.
Booster4324 Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 I think maybe I am. Your target audience for that drain cleaner was "People I don't like and, if I can't kill them, would like to drive away for all eternity," right? I mean...I've GOT to be in that audience... Actually, as I said, it was similar to another shooter. I was targeting it towards women. You do raise an excellent point otherwise though...
DC Tom Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 What no reply to this? Hey, the late-18th Century was a wild time. Horseradish vodka proliferated around the same time as the French decided that freedom meant giving dictatorial power to nutjobs with guillotines. Coincidence? STILL doesn't make it vodka. Watermelon vodka? What's the point? Just add a half-teaspoon of sugar to a shot...
Booster4324 Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 Hey, the late-18th Century was a wild time. Horseradish vodka proliferated around the same time as the French decided that freedom meant giving dictatorial power to nutjobs with guillotines. Coincidence? STILL doesn't make it vodka. Watermelon vodka? What's the point? Just add a half-teaspoon of sugar to a shot... I am not arguing whether you think it is vodka, I am showing that this trend is hardly new. They called it Vodka for centuries while adding ingredients to it for flavor. They break it down into clear and flavored vodkas.
The Poojer Posted June 16, 2009 Author Posted June 16, 2009 Hey!!!!! ehhhhh...you're probably right.... If you were trying to score with Poojer, Cloudy Windex would probably do the trick.
Chef Jim Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 I've had fruit with less fruit taste than you poured into that abortion...may as well add pickle juice. Oh !@#$...here we go.
stuckincincy Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 Good vodka, bad vodka, flavored vodka. Vodka is there to get you drunk. Been there... Some sip it. Cheap or expensive stuff. In my experience, most neat vodka goes down the hatch pretty quickly. It's also a popular final drink of choice for those who are close to dying from long alcohol use. I've seen it happen many a time. Along with the thought that it can't be smelled on the breath. If I put my mind to it, I bet I could recall at least 10 souls who planted themselves that way. Three that I knew for a long time, that were decent folk with loved ones, but climbed into the bottle and that was that. So sad..
VABills Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 What is wrong with you people? What is wrong with beer without a friggen lime or other fruit in it? What is wrong with scotch neat? If you wimps don't like alchohol then don't drink. Seriously, this thread reminds me of the girls in high school who would only drink tango or some other weird sh--.
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