Review: Crescendo Organic Vodka
Crescendo Organic Vodka is one of six organic spirits crafted at the veteran owned and operated Crescendo Spirits Company in Eugene Oregon. The other spirits include the 190 Proof grain spirit, Diamond Clear, Crescendo LimonCello, LimeCello, PompelmoCello, and AranCello. Kyle Akin conceptualized the distillery in 2013 and his first bottles of Limoncello arrived on store shelves April 2014. Crescendo vodka was released November 2017. It is five times distilled from organic sugar cane and blended with water straight from Oregon’s snow pack. Read more 
Review: Crescent Vodka
Crescent Vodka was first released July 2015. It is one of three spirits crafted at Cajun Spirits Distillery in New Orleans Louisiana. The other two include Tresillo Rum, and 3rd Ward Gin. All three spirits start with an alcohol base made from 100% Louisiana Sugarcane grown in New Iberia. Gus and his brother Edward Haik spent five years developing these spirits before release. Crescent Vodka is distilled on a custom copper Carl still made in Germany. After fermenting with a proprietary yeast the spirit is run through the 16 plate column still twice resulting in a vodka effectively distilled 34 times. The spirit is triple charcoal filtered and then reduced to 80 proof with hyper-purified water. Read more
Review: Pacifica Vodka
Pacifica Vodka was released in the summer of 2017. It is crafted by owner and Master Distiller Jason Tripp at the Tripp Distillery in Pacifica California. They also produce a gin and rum. More spirits will follow. Pacifica Vodka is made from 200 pounds of organic cane juice sourced from Paraguay and 200 gallons of water. It sits and ferments for 7 days before it is pumped into a hand made 220 gallon, hour glass shaped still for 16 hours. The spirits rests for 30 days in stainless steel and is then distilled another 16 hours. The spirit, now a rum is kept in oak barrels just long enough for the chemical reactions between oxygen, carbon, and alcohol to settle the bold flavors of the spirit. Once mellowed, the rum is filtered through coconut shells for 4 days and then redistilled by hand in a copper pot still, where it is reborn as Pacifica Vodka. It is hand bottled and labeled at 80 proof. The bottles neck is hand dipped in wax. Read more
Review: Old Fourth Distillery Vodka
Old Fourth Distillery Vodka is made from minimally refined non GMO turbinado cane sugar sourced from a small Louisiana farm. The distillery was started by Jeff and Craig Moore, two brothers who located the distillery in the fourth ward district of Atlanta. Turbinado cane sugar was selected because the distillery is located in an urban area, and they were looking for something they could convert to alcohol with zero waste. The only by-product is pure distilled water. The distillery was Atlanta’s first legal distillery since 1906, when it opened in 2014, the same year the vodka was released. Old Fourth Distillery Vodka is distilled three times on a Carl still. Carl has been building custom stills since 1869 in Stuttgart Germany. The Old Fourth Distillery also currently produces a gin, straight bourbon whiskey, and Lawn Dart. Lawn Dart is made from their vodka base and is vapor infused with fresh lemon peel, fresh organic cold-pressed ginger juice and a hint of the same cane used to craft their vodka. Read more