Review: Three Olives Chocolate Vodka
Three Olives Chocolate vodka was introduced July 2003 along with their Orange flavor. They were their fifth and sixth flavors. Three Olives currently has 28 flavors, with more to follow. It is quadruple distilled in small batches with English Winter wheat and water from Lake Vyrnmy in Wales and then triple charcoal filtered. Natural chocolate flavor is infused in Lawrenceburg Indiana where it is bottled at 70 proof. Read more 
Review: Balls Vodka
Balls vodka was launched in 2011. It is crafted with gluten-free, non GMO corn that is four times distilled in the Midwest. The product is shipped to Rochester New York where pure water is added before bottling at 80 proof. While some vodka’s hope to reel you in with their fancy bottles, or exotic ingredients, Balls Vodka targets 21-29 year old men, with it’s name and marketing campaign. Read more
Review: Breckenridge Vodka
Breckenridge Vodka is crafted in Breckenridge Colorado at 9600 feet above sea level making it the worlds highest distillery. They also create whiskey, bitters, and several seasonal whiskeys, rums, and liqueurs. It is made with a 100% sweet corn base. After fermenting in a traditional Scotch-style open top fermenter it is distilled five times in a 700 gallon Vendome custom copper combination pot still. After a coconut shell charcoal filtration, pure ice cold Rocky Mountain snowmelt water is blended before bottling at 80 proof. Read more
Review: Skyy Vodka
Skyy Vodka was introduced in 1992 and while they may be best known for their Cobalt Blue bottle, they are responsible for popularizing the term congener-free. Maurice Kanbar claimed he developed a new distilling method that removed most of the congeners. Congeners are a natural by-product of alcohol production blamed for bitter taste and hangovers. It is made with grain in Pekin Illinois where it’s distilled in four column stills and triple distilled through California limestone. It is then delivered by railcar to San Jose California where it is mixed with water further filtered through reverse osmosis before bottling at 80 proof. Read more
Review: 44 North Rainier Cherry Vodka
44 North Rainier Cherry vodka is one of five vodkas they craft in Idaho. The other’s include Idaho Potato, Magic Valley Wheat, Sunny Slope Nectarine, and Mountain Huckleberry. It is distilled using a five column distillation process with 100% Idaho Burbank and Russet potatoes blended with Rocky Mountain water from the Snake River aquifer. All-natural Rainer cherries are steeped for ten days and infused before bottling at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Deep Eddy Lemon Vodka
Deep Eddy Lemon vodka was launched in December at their new 30,000 square foot distillery in Dripping Springs Texas. They have since started a National roll out. It is crafted with sweet corn and spring water from deep aquifers in Texas Hill country. Deep Eddy is column distilled ten times in a 20 foot column still before it is slowly filtered six times over charcoal. Real lemon juice is infused before bottling at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Absolut Vodka
Absolut vodka was launched in New York in 1979. It is crafted with Swedish winter wheat sourced from 450 local farmers and pure deep well water from naturally filtered aquifers in Ahus Sweden. A dry yeast culture is added and the mix is fermented for over 50 hours in 600,000 liter tanks. A continuous distillation process is used followed by rectification, a method of removing unwanted by-products. The spirit passes through a number of column stills, each designed to remove a different set of impurities. One column extracts unpleasant tasting solvent compounds, another fusel oils, a third methanol, and a fourth concentrates the spirit. No filtration is needed. Pure well water further filtered through reverse osmosis is added before bottling at 80 proof. Read more
Review: Effen Vodka
Effen Vodka was launched in 2003 when three former partners at KBA Marketing sold the company to build a vodka brand from scratch. They found a contract distillery in the Netherlands and named their vodka Effen, the Dutch word for smooth. The brand has since been sold three times and is now part of Beam Suntory. It is crafted with premium wheat from Northern Holland and pure spring water that has been further filtered through reverse osmosis. A low temperature continuous rectification process is used to avoid caramelization of the sugars. This eliminate the bitter after taste found in some vodka’s. It is then filtered five times through active carbon in a bottom-up filtration process. Read more
Review: Jeremiah Weed Sweet Tea Vodka
Jeremiah Weed Sweet Tea vodka was introduced in 2009. They later added a peach sweet tea and bourbon sweet tea flavor. Very little information is available about this product as Diageo has changed the focus of the Jeremiah Weed Brand, to their Sarsaparilla, Spiced, and Cinnamon American blended whiskey. Read more
Review: Belvedere Wild Berry Vodka
Belvedere Wild Berry Vodka was just introduced. It is one of 10 vodka varieties they currently craft in Poland with Dankowskie rye and pure Artisian well water. The water is sourced from their own wells and it undergoes an 11 step purification process that includes reverse osmosis. The vodka is distilled four times and then filtered twice, first through carbon, and then a finer mechanical filtration. Polish strawberries and American blueberries are gently soaked for up to five weeks. The flavors and aromas are extracted in a process called maceration. These essential oils are then blended with the vodka. No sugar or artificial flavor is added before bottling at 80 proof. Read more