Cheap Vodka

[sighyoung]

That looks like antifreeze.

Does it look any better when you see it in a variety of colors and arrays?

[sighyoung]

What is fortified wine?

Any wine to which additional alcohol has been added. But I'm thinking specifically of the likes of Thunderbird, MD 20/20 (Mad Dog), Orange Jubilee, Night Train, Boone's Farm . . .

See http://www.bumwine.com/

oooh. when i said cheap wine i just meant pinot evil (which is only like $3.99 at shop n save).

Any of this stuff?

[docellis]

Any of this stuff?

When I said cheap beer I meant whatever was the cheapest deal on the Miller, Bud, etc products.

[Sausage_Gravy]

Who doesn't love a 12 incher?

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[thrill]

That looks like antifreeze.

I'm sure it could pull double duty.

[Michael]

Grey Goose is so overrated I can hardly even stand it. It's the Jeter of vodkas.

[TimeForGuinness]

Grey Goose is so overrated I can hardly even stand it. It's the Jeter of vodkas.

what do you drink? skyy?

[Michael]

Grey Goose is so overrated I can hardly even stand it. It's the Jeter of vodkas.

what do you drink? skyy?

I just drink. That said, smirnoff vodka is serviceable however kettle one is awesome.


Again, Grey Goose = overrated.


Anyway, it's pretty much a moot point because most people mix vodka.

[haltz]

What is fortified wine?

Sherry, port, marsala, vermouth.

Sweatpants

Party!


If anyone can tell the difference between vodkas (as they are drinking, not talking hangover here), other than room-temp shots, they are either Russian or lying.

EDIT: I'm hammered riht now, and I'm no sommelier, but fortified wine is basically wine with liquor added. Usually brandy. Wine can only handle so much of a percentage of alcohol. When the yeast eats the sugar to ferment, the products are alcohol and C02.

If you were to make a brut the old-school way, you would cork it and let it all stay in the bottle, carbonating the finished product. This is why champagne has a wire thingy on top of the cork. The you would freeze the very top of the bottle while it is upside down, and pull the cork and the extra crap out, then reseal it.

Ports are sweeter and richer in alcohol content because the fortification halts the fermentation process and adds alcohol. Usually they are 20% abv or so.

[thrill]

The key is in the hangover. Cheap vodka has too many impurities and gives a bad hangover. More premium vodkas are more pure and produce weaker hangover if any at all.