Review: New Amsterdam Watermelon Vodka
New Amsterdam Watermelon is one of 11 flavored vodkas produced by New Amsterdam. The other flavors include Raspberry, Apple, Pineapple, Orange, Coconut, Red Berry, Mango, Lemon, Grapefruit, and Peach. Each flavor starts with a vodka base made from the finest corn distilled five times and filtered three times. Watermelon and other natural flavors are infused before bottling at 70 proof. Read more 
Review: Rosa Vodka
Rosa Vodka was recently released. This should not be confused with the many Rose wine flavored spirits on the market today. Rosa is a natural rose water flavored vodka owned and produced by Manamira LLC, a female owned company based in California. The vodka base is distilled in Portland Oregon from a premium blend of organic corn and the finest Cascade Mountain Spring water filtered for three days in a specialized filtration of limestone and charcoal. Bulgarian Damascena Rose essence are infused before bottling at 80 proof. Bulgarian Damascena Roses were brought to Bulgaria by the Ottoman Turks. The roses are grown for oil production and harvested only six weeks in the spring for the freshest and most vibrant flavors and aromas. 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
Review: Prairie Organic Watermelon Cucumber & Lime Vodka
Prairie Organic Watermelon Cucumber & Lime Vodka was just introduced. It is one of three organic botanical infused vodka’s released by Prairie Organic Spirits. Prairie Organic Spirits was founded 2008 by Phillips Distilling Company. Phillips creates dozens of spirits including UV Vodka, Revel Stoke Whiskey, Centinela Tequila and, La Hechicera Rum. Prairie Organic Spirits are farm crafted and made using single sourced vintage corn grown on family owned organic farms in the Midwest. Each batch is distilled to taste in small batches. Organic Watermelon, Cucumber, & Lime are infused in the vodka base before bottling at 60 proof. Prairie Organic Spirits recently partnered with 1% for the planet, a non-profit that’s pioneering a global movement for providing environmental solutions. Read more
Review: Prairie Organic Grapefruit Hibiscus & Chamomile Vodka
Prairie Organic Grapefruit Hibiscus & Chamomile Vodka is one of three organic zero sugar, flavor infused vodkas in Prairie Organics new Sustainable Seasons line of spirits. The other two flavors are the previously reviewed Apple Pear & Ginger, and Watermelon Cucumber & Lime. Prairie Organic Spirits was founded in 2008 and they currently also craft Prairie Organic Vodka, Prairie Organic Cucumber Vodka, Prairie Organic Gin, Prairie Organic Navy Strength Gin, and Prairie Organic Sparkling Craft Cocktails. Everything is produced using 100% renewable energy. Launched in 2019 The Spirit of Change Fund champions the next generation of organic farmers by helping more farmers go organic. Prairie Organic donates 1% of sales to support this fund. Prairie Organic Grapefruit Hibiscus & Chamomile is made from a single sourced vintage corn grown on family owned organic Midwest farms. The harvested organic corn is brought to a farmer owned co-op where it is ground up and put into a mash where it ferments before being transported to Princeton Minnesota where it is distilled to taste. Organic grapefruit hibiscus and chamomile are infused before bottling at 60 proof. Read more
Review: Prairie Organic Apple Pear & Ginger Vodka
Prairie Organic Spirits , The #1 USDA Certified Organic spirits brand is expanding its portfolio of farm crafted spirits with the launch of its new Sustainable Seasons line of organic botanical infused vodka. There are currently three flavor varieties including Prairie Organic Apple, Pear, & Ginger, Grapefruit, Hibiscus, and Chamomile, and Watermelon, Cucumber, & Lime. Prairie Organic Apple, Pear & Ginger is made from single sourced vintage corn grown on family owned organic Midwest farms. The harvested organic corn is brought to a farmer owned co-op where it is ground up and put into a mash where it ferments. It is then delivered to Prairie Organic Spirits where it is distilled to taste in a copper still. Organic apple, pear, and ginger are infused with the vodka. No sugar or artificial sweeteners are added before bottling at 60 proof. FYI: Apples and Pears are both included on Environmental Working Groups 2020 Dirty Dozen List which annually highlights fruit and vegetables that have the highest pesticide residues when not grown organically. Read more
Review: Timber Creek Vodka
Timber Creek Vodka is crafted at Timber Creek Distillery in Crestview Florida. The Distillery was built on a 1400 acres farm near Destin Florida owned by Aaron Barnes family. Aaron partnered with neighbor Camden Ford in building the distillery, and creating the spirits. They currently also produce gin, rum, flavored rum, and several whiskey’s. Timber Creek Vodka is four times distilled in a custom pot still from 100% Florida grown red soft wheat and Florida limestone spring water pumped directly from the Florida aquifer. The wheat is cracked open and gently cooked to release the sugars. The grain is removed from the lauter tun and only the liquid is fermented. Timber Creek has developed a proprietary distilling and blending technique they call PureBlend. The spirit is filtered with natural charcoal. The vodka then rests for 6 months prior to bottling. Read more
Review: Silver Moon Vodka
Silver Moon Vodka was introduced May 2016. It was the first spirit produced at Kerr Creek Distillery in Walton New York. They have since added an Apple Flavored Vodka, Easy Speaker Bourbon, and Ishka Triple Malt Whiskey. Kerr Creek Distillery is a New York State Farm Distillery owned and operated by Matthew and Jessica White and her parents Bob and Loretta Beckman. Silver Moon Vodka is made from a proprietary blend of locally grown potatoes, cane sugar, and fresh mountain spring water. It took several years to find the right blend of potatoes used to craft this vodka. One of the potatoes included is Katahdin, an heirloom variety developed on Presque Isle Maine in 1932. Cane sugar makes the potatoes easier to work with and avoids the need for chemical clearing agents. Read more
Review: Roofraiser Vodka
Roofraiser Vodka is one of over a dozen spirits crafted at Dented Brick Distillery in South Salt Lake City Utah. Some of the other spirits include Antelope Island Rum, Jan’s Premium Craft Rum, Great Basin Bristlecone Gin, Hugh Moon Whiskey, and Dented Brick Premium Craft Vodka, Gin, and Rum. The distillery was build on land that was once the farm of Utah’s first distiller of record. Hugh Moon produced whiskey in Salt Lake City for early pioneers starting in the 1850’s. Included in the purchase was a brick home where legend has it, during a gunfight that killed the owner on his front porch, the bullets left dents in the bricks. Those bricks were hand removed and are now part of the newly constructed distillery. Roofraiser vodka takes its name from the fact that the newly constructed distillery was not tall enough to house the 28 foot custom copper still they purchased to craft their spirits. The roof was raised to accommodate the still. Roofraiser is made from 50% organic red winter wheat, 50% pumpernickel rye and snow melt water from Utah’s Wasatch Mountains that flows through the earth into their private well. The grain is all non GMO, and is grown in Utah. Roofraiser Vodka is fermented, small batch distilled, and bottled on site. Read more