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[Anonymous No.13527967]

What's the best (and cleanest) vodka under $30? I've been drinking a lot of Ketel One lately, but is there something better?

[Anonymous No.13527988]

>>13527967
Sobieski and Russian standard are good. I prefer stoli but those are what I buy when I need vodka for a good price.

[Anonymous No.13528013]

[Anonymous No.13528029]

>>13527988
Seconding sobieski, smoothest for the price

[Anonymous No.13528064]

Russia Standard
>/thread

I don't like their new taller bottle though.

[Anonymous No.13528666]

>>13527988
>>13528029
These niggas get it. Sobieska has been my go to for the last 3 years. Anything cheaper smells like paint thinner and anything more expensive is just marked up for the packaging and brand.

[Anonymous No.13528681]

Stoli or Tito's are my standard vodkas.

[Anonymous No.13528688]

If you can get it, żubrówka. Other than that Finlandia is good. A lot of the mid range vodkas are about the same as the really expensive ones.

[Anonymous No.13528696]

>>13528064
>$32 a handle
No fucking thank you

[Anonymous No.13528917]

>>13528013

I watched the Joe Rogan on this, IDK if it's worth the money or just hype. Pretty sure that crystal skull shit is $50 a bottle.

Where I am a 750ml:
Ketel, $20
Stoli, $18
3 Olives, $14

I like Stoli but think ketel is a little cleaner. Thoughts on 3 olives?

[Anonymous No.13528936]

Stoli is $20 here for 750ml
Ketel is $26
Tito's is $17


If im going pure budget tier then it's Skol or Burnetts at around $7.

[Anonymous No.13528941]

Reyka is smooth and almost like a sugary sweet finish

[Anonymous No.13528948]

>>13528917
>IDK if it's worth the money
Vodka does not increase in quality beyond a certain price point, about $35 per 750 ml. It's just the nature of vodka, since there is no aging or flavoring process involved. The crystal skull vodka is nothing special and is $50.

[Anonymous No.13528950]

>>13528936
>Tito's
>vodka from corn
I can already feel the headache.

[Anonymous No.13528953]

thoughts?

[Anonymous No.13528956]

Save your money and buy Smirnoff. Shit wins every blind taste test and it's basically free.

[Anonymous No.13528960]

>>13528956
Are you perhaps a college girl or a homeless bum?

[Anonymous No.13528963]

>>13528950
werks for me

[Anonymous No.13528976]

>>13528960
Must suck to be an illiterate.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/best-vodka_n_4038718

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/03/147252/vodka-taste-test

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/dining/a-humble-old-label-ices-its-rivals.html

Etc.

[Anonymous No.13528992]

I buy this shit when I feel like drinking something other than absolute bottom shelf. It’s probably the most expensive vodka ($17 a handle) I’d consider buying outside of a gift for someone else

[Anonymous No.13528998]

>>13528956
>$13 a fifth

too much for vodka, i just bought a fifth of svedka 2 hours ago for $10 and that's too much. buy the cheapest possible it's all the same mixed with grapefruit juice.

[Anonymous No.13529006]

>>13528998

I pay about a $1.35 per 1.75 Liters of vodka these days.

[Anonymous No.13529008]

>>13529006
How?

[Anonymous No.13529011]

>>13528976
>judging vodka by a taste test
Vodka bt definition isn't meant to taste like anything. It's the hangover or lack thereof that separates levels of vodka.

[Anonymous No.13529012]

>>13529008
prostitution

[Anonymous No.13529028]

>>13529008
Make your own. I spend 1 dollar x 15 for 30Kg of Sugar, 5 bucks on yeast, 8 x 47 cents on tomato paste, 1tsp of epsom salt 5 tsp of citric acid and 135 liters of water.

That's my cost. And some electricity.

[Anonymous No.13529040]

>>13527967
Platinum 7X (cause it's distilled 7 times)
All I remember was it was unreasonably cheap and surprisingly smooth with a decent burn

[Anonymous No.13529044]

Karkov

[Anonymous No.13529048]

>>13529028
Based

[Anonymous No.13529051]

>>13529040

Do you know how many times you need to distill something to make it perfect? 2 times. The first distillation is called "stripping". After stripping you have the 'product' run. When you do that, it's like when petroleum distilleries make diesel, gasoline, kerosene. It all separates in the column by temperature. When you do a very stable column run you end up with Azeotropic alcohol coming out the top. That's 94% ethanol. It basically tastes like nothing with a little vanilla in it. Vanillin is an organic compound with the molecular formula C8H8O3. It is a phenolic aldehyde.

You end up with a few of these after acute distillation.

[Anonymous No.13529056]

>>13529048
I use it like most people use a coffee maker. Run it for 3 hours get 3 handles of booze. It's just a normal thing now.

[Anonymous No.13529079]

You guys go read up on column distillation. You'll probably end up in the oil industry but that's how you make booze if you can't afford alembic stills like Lagavulin.

[Anonymous No.13529095]

>>13528688
had a lot of zubrowka in my day, but is it actually considered good?
to be honest it goes down real smooth when chilled

had some finlandia as well, but if i remember correclt it was more expensive

[Anonymous No.13529101]

>>13527967
Stolichnaya Russian vodka. AKA Stolis.

[Anonymous No.13529116]

>>13529101
Stoli turned to shit, then I switched to RS. Then that turned to shit and I made my own.

[Anonymous No.13529142]

>>13529028

What's the quality like though? Better than what you could get at a liquor store?

[Anonymous No.13529155]

>>13527967
this is my go to vodka these days

[Anonymous No.13529158]

>>13529142

When I double distill it's FARRRRR better than anything you'll ever taste. It's magic. 94% is white lightning, but it tastes like vanilla. Stripping runs are what we call "low wines" they're shit, but when you put 3 tsp of sodium bicarb on them they're ok, they don't ruin your stomach.

[Anonymous No.13529203]

>>13529011
>the hangover or lack thereof that separates levels of vodka.
>I am 22 and think I'm an expert on booze culture.

Good God, you suck

[Anonymous No.13529207]

>>13528956
>>13528976
The first two links compare 5 and 3 vodkas, respectively. That's absurd. The huffpost piece isn't even blind.
The Times article tested for "distinctiveness", the exact opposite of what vodka is supposed to be. They're literally looking for it to have a strong aftertaste. One guy even flat out admits the "flavor profiles" might cause problems "when deployed in mixed drinks". Jesus.
All three links just happen to be the first three google results. I bet it's a coincidence.

Go find the BTI blind taste test data on vodka, hundreds of brands tested, all with the goal of finding the ones that don't taste like shit.
Sobieski consistently dominates.

[Anonymous No.13529209]

>>13529203
Well, he actually has legislation behind him. You can't make vodka with flavour. In some countries. It needs to be flavour free ethanol. It' actually fucking law.

[Anonymous No.13529216]

>>13528681

Fuck off shill. That garbage gives hangovers. Obvious sign of cheap alcohol

[Anonymous No.13529250]

>>13529116
Well done. But Stolichnaya is still best vodka for general population.

[Anonymous No.13529312]

>>13529209
His argument doesn't follow to begin with.
The fact that vodka is supposed to be flavorless is literally THE reason why we're even able to blind test it in the first place.

Neither that guy or the "huffingtonpost says smirnoff is p. good" poster have any idea what they're talking about.

[Anonymous No.13529374]

>>13528976
>he doesn't know what an "advertorial" is
Look it up.

[Anonymous No.13529377]

>>13529051
>>13529158
>Vanillin is an organic compound with the molecular formula C8H8O3. It is a phenolic aldehyde.

If distilling two times is perfect, why does it taste like vanillin? Wouldn't the conclusion be that your distill product contains impurities? The subjective pleasantness of that impurity is irrelevant -- you have impurities. It's not perfect.

[Anonymous No.13529387]

>>13528953
>drinking anything from the Cuck Nation

>>13528917
>>13528936
Holy shit, Stoli is $12 here. It's why I get it.

[Anonymous No.13529424]

you can tell people who don't actually drink because they say "a 750ml" instead of a fifth

[Anonymous No.13529434]

>>13529377

Dude, you can dial in the column. I know you don't have a fucking clue, but You can make it taste like nothing if you wan to.

[Anonymous No.13529444]

>>13529424
bullshit
people who use fifth/handle/pint are always niggers

[Anonymous No.13529445]

>>13529377
Do you have any idea what 94% alchohol tastes like? Its white lightening. I'm just telling you want you might taste while you're in an altered state.

[Anonymous No.13529460]

>>13529444
>people who use fifth/handle/pint are adults
ftfy

[Anonymous No.13530058]

>>13528976
>Onionspost
>Newyork
>>13528688
It's really tasty
>>13528953
Kys

[Anonymous No.13530770]

>>13527967
If you are actually putting some thought into your low end vodka purchasing decisions then consider investing in a low end charcoal water filter. You can substantially improve some low end vodkas by filtering it yourself.
I have found Green Mark to work the best, followed by Stolichnaya.

[Anonymous No.13530786]

>>13527967
Pic related is good.

[Anonymous No.13530819]

>>13529424
>recently turned 21
>go into liquor store
>pause face to face with liquor store guy for 20 seconds
>see 375ml I decided to go with
>"uhh... I'll have that 5.09 of Romanoff..."
>had to point him to it

[Anonymous No.13530843]

>>13528688
>>13529095
>Finlandia
Not good anymore. The company that owns the brand recently dropped the ABV by 2,5%

[Anonymous No.13530879]

Since this is a vodka thread, whats /ck/ opinion on pic related, is it good, or is it a meme?

[Anonymous No.13531231]

>>13527967
Smirnoff. It always wins the blind taste tests

[Anonymous No.13531232]

gordons

[Anonymous No.13531294]

>>13527988
Literally ONE word into the thread and you can shut it down. Been keeping off the sauce as of late but I have fond memories of sipping Sobieski.

Pic related though, Wybrowa, a bit harder to find but if you ever come across it I'd pick it up in a heartbeat. Smooth, flavorful, similar price-point, worth your time.

[Anonymous No.13531323]

>>13531294
oops I forgot my pic, happens every time I say "pic related" I guess. but apparently I'm late to the party:
>>13530879
it's been a while since I've had it, but my memories of it were as-smooth-a-vodka-as-I've-ever-had (seriously) but with a proper aftertaste with that "spiciness" I associate with rye, if that makes sense. It didn't burn, it didn't taste like ethanol, but you could taste the mash really distinctively and I loved that about it, flavorful would be the word. Again I'd highly recommend it.

[Anonymous No.13531328]

everyday vodka drinker here

its this stuff called the Russian standard vodka.
its about 22$ a bottle in the us

[Anonymous No.13531340]

Deep Eddy is cheap as fuck and its better than TAka

[Anonymous No.13531567]

>>13531340
Taka is bad and you should feel bad for drinking it.

[Anonymous No.13531684]

How do you guys dispose of bottles?

[Anonymous No.13531985]

also going to throw in for sobieski
it's the best vodka

[Anonymous No.13531996]

>>13527967
I was going to ask where you can get a handle of Ketel One for under $30, but then looked up my local Total Wine and it's like $27. I should really stop buying liquor exclusively from the grocery store. In any case, Ketel One is my personal favorite in that price range.

[Anonymous No.13532007]

>>13531684
Throw them into the big container labeled "Glass", quite complicated stuff

[Anonymous No.13532014]

extra cheap, made from rye, burns clean.
no hangover

[Anonymous No.13532104]

Also, whats the ideal temperature for consuming vodka? Room temp? Fridge temp? Freezing temp? Or it doesnt make any difference?

[Anonymous No.13532110]

>>13531684
Reuse the bottles for water.

[Anonymous No.13532209]

>>13528956
Smirnoff notably has no flavor and is made under license
Stoli is tasty as fuck and always imported

[Anonymous No.13532744]

>>13532104
Pocket temp

[Anonymous No.13532753]

i drink $10 handles exclusively
Paying more than $10 for a handle is a crime against humanity and the free market

[Anonymous No.13532769]

>>13527967
I thought dutchcraft was really good

[Anonymous No.13532770]

>>13527967
i see boomers in costco lugging around 1.75l of this brand of vodka in their carts.

[Anonymous No.13532787]

What’s the purpose of buying “premium” vodka? If you are to spend some extra cash on liquor, buy something aged with character, literally anything other than watered down grain alcohol.

[Anonymous No.13532798]

>>13532753
Who the fuck says "handles?"
Is it a foreign thing? I've lived all over the United States the past 30 years and never heard a single person say that.

[Anonymous No.13532810]

>>13527967
is this any good? cheap as fuck

[Anonymous No.13532814]

>>13532798
midwestern high school kids, speaking from my own experience

[Anonymous No.13532817]

>>13532798

You sound like a loser. Bitches love when you tell them to buy a handle of “X” alcohol.

[Anonymous No.13532834]

>>13532787
is there a difference in vodka brands?

[Anonymous No.13532843]

Russian Standard, if you really want super cheap, popov is good.

[Anonymous No.13532862]

if you're going for cheap, at least run it through a Brita filter before you drink it.

[Anonymous No.13532873]

>>13532862
I also saw that youtube video

[Anonymous No.13532884]

I get a handle of this for 10 dollars

[Anonymous No.13532904]

>>13532884
based
no reason to buy anything but ten buck Sazerac/Barton brands handles

[Anonymous No.13534041]

Potato vodkas are God-tier. I'm ripped on Monopolowa although Luksosowa and Chopin aren't bad. Try those; I've found all three on TJ's special

[Anonymous No.13534062]

>>13532884
>a handle

[Anonymous No.13535634]

>>13528936
>>13529387
> Live in Canada
> Stoli is $28.95 for 750ml

[Anonymous No.13535646]

>>13535634
And it's from Latvia not Russia...

[Anonymous No.13535652]

>>13529028
Technically you're making rum friendo. Or sugar shine.

[Anonymous No.13535667]

>>13529079
Are you sure they don't use a column still? Column is better for consistency.