Review: Copperworks Vodka
Copperworks Vodka is crafted at Copperworks Distilling Company in Seattle Washington. Co-Founder Jason Parker started brewing beer for Pike Place Brewery in 1989. He also brewed beer at Redhook, and later became the Brew Master at Pyramid Breweries. In 2013 he partnered with Micah Nutt to open Copperworks. Micah is the Co-founder and the Distiller. They currently also craft whiskey and gin. Copperworks Vodka is made with malted barley, locally grown in Washington. 80% of the malted barley is sourced from small local independent growers. The spirit is fermented with a pure strain of brewers yeast and fermented in a hand hammered 25 plate copper column still built in Scotland, then bottled unfiltered. Vodka distilled from malted barley is significantly more expensive than corn, wheat, or potatoes. The $38 a bottle price reflects this cost. Is Copperworks worth the premium price? Read on. Read more 
Review: Narrow Road Vodka
Narrow Road Vodka was released with the opening of Elevation 5003 Distillery in Fort Collins Colorado February 2016. CEO and Distiller Loren Matthews currently also crafts Timber Ridge Gin, 5003 Straight Rye, 5003 Straight Bourbon, Lunarshine Corn Whiskey, Falernum Liqueur, and Franklin Coffee Liqueur at her distillery. Elevation 5003 is named for the altitude the distillery is built at. Narrow Road Vodka is made from single malt barley and fresh Colorado Mountain spring water. The barley is cooked, fermented, distilled, proofed, filtered, and bottled onsite. Narrow Road is small batch triple distilled and triple filtered. Read more
Review: Beluga Noble Russian Vodka
Beluga Noble Russian Vodka was first produced in 2002 at the Mariinsk Distillery. The Mariinsk Distillery was established in 1900 in the heart of Siberia. Noble is one of five varieties of Beluga Russian Vodka. The others include Transatlantic, Allure, Gold Line, and Celebration. Beluga Noble is made from barley malt and pure water from 300 meter deep artesian wells in the bedrock of Siberia. The water is double filtered through quartz sand and special silver. Once distilled the spirit is filtered through a 10.5 meter coal column filter composed of birch charcoal. The vodka is flavored with fractional amounts of honey, oat, and milk thistle, and then left to rest for 30 days prior to bottling. Read more
Review: Koskenkorva Vodka
Koskenkorva Vodka is made from Saana and Elmeri, custom barley varieties. These are the northernmost barleys in the world. The barley is all grown within a 120 mile radius of the distillery. A continuous distillation process provides the equivalent of 250 distillations. Pure spring water filtered through the ridges of Salpausselka is blended to reduce to 80 proof. The vodka is so pure it does not require a separate carbon filtration. The Koskenkorva distillery has produced this vodka since 1953 in Koskenkorva Finland, a town with a population of 2100. Each year this town produces the equivalent of 90,476 kilos of barley per villager. Read more
Review: Finlandia Vodka
Finlandia Vodka was introduced in the US in 1971. It is distilled in the village of Koskenkorva Finland. They start with the finest six row barley. After the barley is fermented, a seven column continuous distillation process is used with more than 200 distillation steps designed to remove impurities. The grain spirit is then transported at 96.5 proof 200 miles south to the village of Rajamaki. Pure glacial water from the Rajamaki Spring is blended to reduce to 80 proof. Read more