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Is there a big difference between poverty vodka and fine vodka?

If you have to ask, just buy the cheap shit because you won't know the difference anyway when you are mixing your cranberry vodkas.
 
RagingBITCH said:
If you have to ask, just buy the cheap shit because you won't know the difference anyway when you are mixing your cranberry vodkas.
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Just buy the cheap shit because even people who claim to be vodka experts won't know the difference anyway even when drinking straight let alone mixing with cranberry. "super premium" vodkas are a giant scam and in blind taste tests Smirnoff kicks ass on Cirroc, Grey Goose, Absolut, Belverdere, Skyy, and all the rest.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Just buy the cheap shit because even people who claim to be vodka experts won't know the difference anyway even when drinking straight let alone mixing with cranberry. "super premium" vodkas are a giant scam and in blind taste tests Smirnoff kicks ass on Cirroc, Grey Goose, Absolut, Belverdere, Skyy, and all the rest.
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That's been debated back and forth on these forums. This test shows experts 1 and 2 can't taste the diff, this test shows experts can pick it out. I can pick out Tito's vs a plastic bottle (well) anyday, but if you put 10 in front of me that'd be different.
 
http://www.burnettsvodka.com

Quadruple distilled, smooth, cheap. Only speaking for their unflavored vodka, never tried their flavored products. $8.95/750ml compared to Smirnoff at $12.95/750ml in our state run liquor stores. No reason to spend more.
 
I drank a lot of this vodka years ago because it was cheap but boy I had a rock-em-sock-em hangover the next day..
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I did ask the person who works at a local liquor store and she told me she tended bar for several years and no one ever complained about the "house" brand, IMHO it's mostly marketing, just like motor oil, I used to LOL at the Quaker State ad, "The intelligent oil", yea, OK oil that thinks!!!
 
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IronWing said:
With cheap vodka you can can more drunker for the same money than you might with expensive vodka.
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True but at a LOT of places you can get Up or Rocks pours (between 2 oz and 4.5 oz depending on the place) for barely more than a standard pour (between 1 oz and 1.5 oz).

At my old bar any Up pour was basically a double for a dollar more, so a $8.75 grey goose drink became a $9.75 martini, where well would be $5.50 for a single drink and $6.50 for a martini.
 
I used to drink Vodka a lot, straight and mixed. Cheap Vodka always gave me the worst hangover. You can tell the difference in taste but its subtle.
I'm willing to bet if you were to take a cheap bottle of filtered water and an expensive bottle of water most would prefer the expensive one...
 
Kneedragger said:
I used to drink Vodka a lot, straight and mixed. Cheap Vodka always gave me the worst hangover. You can tell the difference in taste but its subtle. I'm willing to bet if you were to take a cheap bottle of filtered water and an expensive bottle of water most would prefer the expensive one...
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honestly there can be quite a difference in quality between water. especially glacial or spring water in glass bottles
 
The answer is yes.

Here is a good article.

http://thecellars.com/Brews1/

If you read you see that the first (heads) and last (tails) parts of alcohol that come off a distiller are the ones that contain impure liquor. Distillers must remove these parts of the liquor and throw them away if they want to produce good vodka.

For the large distilleries who only care about profit, throwing away the heads and tails is like pouring money down the drain, so the mix heads and tails into their bottles to squeeze out every last penny from the distilling process. This often requires mixing in masking agents to mask the impurities of the heads and tails when introduced into the bottle. Cheaper bottles have higher concentrations of heads and tails, plus other masking agents. All of these additives will muddle the taste of the vodka and are more likely to give you a hangover in the morning.
 
Like others said, the main difference is how it'll make you feel later (but then the bigger issue there is the quantities you consume so eh). Just find whatever cheap, decently filtered vodka you have available.

Kneedragger said:
I used to drink Vodka a lot, straight and mixed. Cheap Vodka always gave me the worst hangover. You can tell the difference in taste but its subtle.
I'm willing to bet if you were to take a cheap bottle of filtered water and an expensive bottle of water most would prefer the expensive one...
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Not really sure why you even brought up the water, but I'm willing to bet most people couldn't tell the difference if they were in the same containers at the same temp.

norseamd said:
honestly there can be quite a difference in quality between water. especially glacial or spring water in glass bottles
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If they're both purified there isn't and most (including stuff like Fiji) are. Most of the "taste" of bottled water comes from the container, and glass definitely would be better than plastic in that regard. Most of the "spring" (instead of "purified" or distilled) ones add back in minerals to try and give it more flavor but the bottles still easily overpower the flavor (as they're still in very small quantities, ppm if not ppb IIRC, as it wouldn't do well to have cloudy water and seriously try to market it as "pure mountain spring/glacial acquifer/etc").
 
The difference is filtration. That is pretty much it. If you sent cheap ass vodka through a carbon filter a few times, the taste is exactly the same as expensive stuff.
 
Yeah.

Its mostly the immediate/aftertaste.

Bad Vodka has this extremely bitter flavor that makes it extremely unpleasant to take shots of. Good Vodka I can chug straight from the bottle just fine.

Neither really give me headaches, clear liquor will give you a hangover but they shouldn't cause the shitty hangover headaches.
 
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