Review: Reigncane Vodka
The Reigncane Vodka journey began when Brian and Michael Eckert found a source of water on a island in Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago fed by glacier melt and an average waterfall of 166 days per year. Their original plan to produce the purest bottled water transformed into producing the purest vodka. After three years of development Raincane Vodka was launched May 2019. The name was later changed to Reigncane because of a potential lawsuit. Reigncane is 6 times craft distilled in California with organic sugar cane sourced from Brazil, proofed with naturally pure Alaskan water, and filtered though organic coconut husk charcoal. Read more 
Review: Blackland Vodka
Blackland Vodka is a grain to glass vodka crafted with locally grown Texas wheat. It is distilled in Fort Worth Texas on a custom built still made in The Netherlands by iStill. The distillery opened its doors 2019 and they currently also produce gin, bourbon, rye whiskey, and Texas Pecan Brown Sugar Bourbon. Founder Markus Kypreos started his career as an attorney and later graduated from the Culinary School of Fort Worth. He is also a certified sommelier. The Blackland Distillery is named for the Blackland Prairie that runs from the Red River to the North and San Antonio to the south. Head Distiller Ezra Cox had brewed beer and distilled spirits for 25 years including crafting spirits at his own Ezra Cox Distillery in Washington prior to joining the Blackland team. Read more
Review: Upstate Vodka
Upstate Vodka was just released. This is not the same 90 proof version of Upstate Vodka previously released. Upstate is farm to bottle craft distilled at Sauvage Distillery in Charlotteville New York, from 100% New York State grown apples, by Head Distiller Ken Wortz. 70-80 apples are needed to produce 1 bottle of Upstate Vodka. Once the juice is extracted from the apples it is fermented with Kosher Champagne yeast and twice distilled in 16 and 18 plate two-column stills. Only one state produces more apples than the state of New York, and with over 700 orchards in New York it should come as no surprise Upstate Vodka is made from apples instead of grain. Upstate Vodka is currently available at select New York and Connecticut liquor stores and it is available to purchase online and ship to 30 states from Sauvage. Each bottle is numbered and dated. My bottle is from batch 1, bottle number 7768. Read more
Review: Epiphany Vodka
Epiphany Vodka is crafted at McClintock Distilling Company. The distillery was founded by Braeden Bumpers and Tyler Hegamyer in 2015. They built the distillery in a 100 year old former mechanics garage in downtown Frederick Maryland. They currently craft about a dozen spirits including several whiskeys, gins, a couple of vodkas, and cordials. Epiphany Vodka is made with Non GMO organic white wheat sourced from local family farms. The spirits is double distilled through 18 plates and then triple filtered. Epiphany was named the number one craft vodka in their 2020 readers poll. Read more
Review: High Wire Hometown Vodka
High Wire Hometown Vodka is crafted with 100% locally grown corn. It is small batch distilled over 7 times on a hand hammered German built custom Carl copper still, and charcoal filtered prior to hand bottling. High Time Distilling Co. was opened by husband and wife team Scott Blackwell and Ann Marshall September 2013 in a rustic 6000 square foot warehouse in downtown Charleston South Carolina. It was the first legal distillery since Prohibition in Charleston. High Wire has since expanded to a 43,000 square foot facility. Only about half of the space is currently being used, but it does leave room for future expansion. High Wire Distilling Co. also crafts Hat Trick Gin, Jimmy Red Straight Bourbon, Southern Revival Rye, and Southern Amaro. Read more
Review: JJ Pfister Vodka
JJ Pfister Vodka is crafted by Master Distiller Brian Keck at JJ Pfister Distilling Company in Sacramento California. The distillery is named for the family patriarch JJ Pfister who emigrated to the US from Switzerland at the age of 25. He settled in San Francisco, and in 1876 he launched his first business, a one man knitting company. By 1889 the business was successful enough to build his first factory in San Francisco. The factory was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and was rebuilt in Berkeley California. JJ Distilling Company is a family owned business run by Kevin Keck the Great Grandson of JJ Pfister and the father of master distiller Brain Keck. Their first crafted spirit was a vodka distilled from potatoes they released in 2017. They currently craft about a dozen spirits including vodka, gin, whiskey, rum, eau de vie, brandy, and Drakus Honey Spirit. In 2020 they released their current JJ Pfister Vodka, distilled from organic rye locally farmed in the Sacramento Valley using sustainable practices. This vodka was originally produced as a base for JJ Pfister Gin and because it tasted so good they released it as a vodka. All of their spirits are crafted on custom stills built in Italy. Read more
Review: Hard Truth Original Vodka
Hard Truth Original Vodka is hand crafted from wheat on a Vendome Copper & Brass Works still in Nashville Indiana. They began distilling spirits in 2015 on the second floor of their Big Woods Restaurant before moving to a state of the art distillery in 2017. The 18,000 square foot distillery is surrounded by 325 acres of native forests. They currently craft about a dozen spirits including gin, whiskey, flavored whiskey, rum, flavored rum, cream liqueurs, vodka, and flavored vodka. Read more
Review: Dented Brick Craft Vodka
Dented Brick Craft Vodka is made from 100% locally grown corn and artesian well water that flows clean and pure from the Wasatch Mountains. The vodka and distillery are named for the well driller who was killed in a gunfight that left impressions in the bricks of his house. Some of those bricks were used to build the Dented Brick Distillery in South Salt Lake City. Marc Christensen opened the distillery March 2016 with the launch of his first spirit, Antelope Island Rum. Today they craft over a dozen spirits including vodka, gin, rum, and whiskey. Dented Brick Craft Vodka is distilled on a custom Vendome Copper & Brass Works still, then filtered, and bottled onsite. Read more
Review: Vido Vodka
Vido Vodka was launched June 2020. It is crafted in Benton City Washington from wine grapes, grown on the 2200 acre Goose Ridge Estate Vineyard and Winery. The vodka was named to honor the family patriarch Arvid Vido Monson who ended each day with a vodka cocktail and a dream to craft his own vodka. Once pressed the grapes are ferment until the wine is considered dry, about 12-15% alcohol. It is small batch distilled on a dual column 24 plate still. Before the final filtration the vodka rests for five days. It is then blended with pure water before being freeze filtered 50 times and then hand bottled and labeled. Read more
Review: Two Sisters Vodka
Two Sisters Vodka is crafted from organic wheat and pure unprocessed water drawn from a underground spring, 600 feet deep in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains at the Springbrook Hollow Farm Distillery located five miles from Lake George New York. They grind the grain themselves and small batch triple distill on a custom German built Copper Kothe still. Prior to bottling the spirit passes through a charcoal filter bed. The Springbrook Hollow Farm Distillery opened their doors December 2014 and they currently also craft bourbon, rye, gin, moonshine and several liqueurs. Read more