Review: Wiggly Bridge Vodka
Wiggly Bridge Vodka was released in 2016. It is crafted at Wiggly Bridge Distillery in York Maine. The distillery and vodka are named for The York Maine Wiggly Bridge, the smallest pedestrian suspension bridge in America. The bridge was built in 1930 and the 75 foot long bridge runs from shore to shore over the York River on one side and Barrell Mill Pond on the other. Father and son team David and David Woods first built a 15 gallon pit still and made bush rum from molasses, sugar cane, and fruits from the rain forest while at their winter residence on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat. Their success there lead to them building a distillery they opened on Repeal Day 2013 in their home town of York Maine. Vodka was the third spirit they produced. Besides Vodka they also produce premium agave spirits, dry gin, rum, and whiskey. Wiggly Bridge Vodka is small batch distilled in a home made 60 gallon traditional pot still from French wheat. Read more 
Review: 2Docks Vodka
2Docks Vodka is crafted at Proof Artisan Distillers in Downtown Fargo North Dakota. 2Docks was the first spirit brothers Jay and Joel Kath released when they opened the distillery in 2015. Their current lineup includes a coffee liqueur, cinnamon whiskey, gin, Old Tom gin, Cream Liqueur, Glen Fargo American Malt Whiskey, Harvest Blend Bourbon, and Crooked Furrow Bourbon. The distillery was built in a historic building previously occupied by Fargo’s Municipal Court. A 25 foot copper still named The Judge, is located near the original judges chamber. 2Docks is made from Red River Valley potatoes. After fermenting a five pass distillation follows. The finished product is pure and natural without the use of activated carbon, chill filtering, or added sugar. Read more
Review: Civic Vodka
Civic Vodka is crafted from 100% North American grown Eastern Sweet Corn. Once distilled the spirit is charcoal polished 2300 times through a meter of activated charcoal. Civic is on of four spirits produced and bottled at Republic Restoratives Distillery in the Ivy City neighborhood of Washington DC. The others include Borough Bourbon, Chapmans Apple Brandy, and Purpose Rye. The distillery is women owned and crowd funded. Founders Pia Carusone and Rachel Gardner worked in politics and policy before building the distillery. Read more
Review: Indigenous Fresh Pressed Apple Vodka
Indigenous Fresh Pressed Apple Vodka is made from 100% Hudson Valley apples grown on orchards less than five miles away from the distillery. About 80 apples are needed to produce 1, 750ml bottle of vodka. The apples are juiced into fresh apple cider, fermented, and triple distilled in a hybrid pot column still with 22 plates. The vodka is hand bottled, unfiltered. Initially called Heart of the Hudson Vodka when it was first released in 2005, it was the first vodka distilled from apples in the US and possibly the worlds first. The distillery was built by owners Ralph Erenzo and Brian Lee in 2003 in one of the granaries of the Tuthilltown Gristmill which was built by Selah Tuthill in 1788 and operated for over 200 years. The Tuthilltown Distillery also produces Hudson Whiskey, the first legal whiskey in the state of New York since Prohibition. They also craft Indigenous Empire State Wheat Vodka and more recently Indigenous Corn Vodka. Read more
Review: Frozen Falls Vodka
Frozen Falls Vodka is one of several spirits crafted at Falls Church Distillery in Falls Church Virginia. The others include several gins, rums, brandies, and whiskies. This should not be confused with the other Frozen Falls Vodka that is produced by Honeoye Falls Distillery near Rochester New York. Falls Church Distillery is a Veteran owned family operated craft distillery opened by the father and son team of CEO Michael Paluzzi and Distiller Lorenzo Paluzzi, July 2017. Frozen Falls is made in small batches in a custom built column still from a blend of cane sugar and wheat. Once distilled a unique filtration process follows before hand bottling. For the record the other Frozen Falls Vodka is made from rye. Read more
Review: Shady Vodka Recount 2020
Shady Vodka Recount 2020 is a limited edition spirit designed to pay tribute to Florida’s history of close elections. It is made from 100% corn and is small batch distilled six times prior to a seventh distillation in a 1000 liter, 264 gallon Dragon double copper pot still with a pot head, 4 plate column and 11 plate side column. A 10 time proprietary filtration process follows prior to bottling. Recount 2020 was released 2 weeks after the launch of Shady Vodka and the opening of Shady Distillery. Each vodka is prepared the same, Recount 2020 is bottled at 81 proof instead of 80. The Shady Distillery is located in the Historic Sistrunk District of Fort Lauderdale, and the 20,000 square foot distillery is located in the Sistrunk Marketplace. Both are named in honor of pioneering black Physician Dr. James Franklin Sistrunk the founder of Provident Hospital, Broward Counties first black hospital. Master Distiller Jonny VerPlanck has also crafted 12 Mile White Rum. The 12 Mile name pays tribute to the edge of International waters during prohibition where rum runners met to transfer booze made in the Bahamas for delivery to Florida’s Southern coast. 12 Mile Dark rum is currently barrel aging and several more 12 Mile branded rums will follow. Read more
Review: E11EVEN Vodka
E11EVEN Vodka was launched in October by CEO Nikki Simkins. The E11EVEN brand is a lifestyle. Created as a 24/7 Ultra Club in Downtown Miami in 2014, E11EVEN Miami is the worlds highest grossing nightclub per square foot. Hundreds of taste tests were completed before selecting a vodka deserving the E11EVEN name. E11EVEN Vodka is crafted in Miami from 100% Florida grown NON-GMO corn. It is 6 times distilled in copper stills. A proprietary 7 step filtration follows, before hand bottled. Since launch E11EVEN has out sold the second most popular vodka at E11EVEN Miami by a 4 to 1 margin. Read more
Review: Big Machine Vodka
Big Machine Vodka is crafted at Tenn South Distillery in Lynnville Tennesse and Big Machine Distillery in Nashville Tennessee. Music Mogul Scott Borchetta acquired Tenn South Distillery in 2015. He later built Big Machine Distillery in Nashville. Scott got his start in the music industry in 1985 with MTM Record. He later worked for MCA Records, DreamWorks Nashville, and Universal Music before starting his own independent record label Big Machine Records in 2005. His first client was Taylor Swift. She was 15 at the time. Scott later signed dozens of superstar artists including Florida Georgia Line, Lady A, Rascal Flats, Sugarland, Tim McGraw, and Thomas Rhett. Upon acquiring Tenn South Distillery, Scotts first order of business was to create a world class vodka. Big Machine Vodka is a true grain to glass spirit as the process starts with Giles County white corn and pure Tennessee limestone water. The corn is ground, mashed, fermented, distilled, filtered, bottled and hand labeled at the distillery. Big Machine is small batch distilled 25 times and filtered 3 times through platinum beads. Read more
Review: Skeptic Vodka
Skeptic Vodka is crafted in Melrose Park Illinois at Skeptic Distillery Company. They also make Skeptic Gin and Skeptic Ginquila. Skeptic Whiskey is currently barrel aging. Karl Loepke the Founder and Head Distiller of Skeptic Distillery was an avid home brewer and craft beer enthusiast with a dream of opening a brewery one day. Years later Karl was introduced to vacuum distillation through his former gig as a part owner of a specialty cleaning solvent company. One day he imagined what a spirit would taste like if it was distilled in such a manner. Skeptic Vodka is distilled from corn at cold temperatures using a cold vacuum still. This unique custom designed still allow them to distill continuously at 50 degrees which preserves delicate flavors. The spirit is carbon filtered four times in a proprietary blend of ultrapure carbon developed from exhaustive research and development. Each label contains the hand written batch and bottle number. Read more
Review: Pristine Vodka
Pristine Vodka was introduced into the US in 2009. In 1989 Alex Bratslavsky left Ukraine to share a piece of the American dream with his family. While he was able to realize his dream of making a living and raising a family in the US he was disappointed in the lackluster premium vodka available in the US. Alex spent years organizing a dream team of Agriculturalists and Master Distillers to craft Pristine. Pristine Vodka is made in Ukraine from Ukrainian wheat and pure icy cold Carpathian Mountain spring water. It is distilled five times and gravity charcoal filtered from three stories high a total of five times before bottling at 80 proof. Read more