Vodka tasting session

[kiliarien]

So me and a couple of others had a few bottles of vodka lying about that were a bit more expensive than supermarket own stuff. We used Smirnoff Black as our benchmark and worked from there, both neat and with mixers - decent quality lemonade, orange. We chose:

Mamont
Chase
Kauffman

Anybody a vodka officiando who can predict the results? (Other than the hangover/lingering drunkeness the next morning.)

 

[Ch3tan]

I've only had Chase and Smirnoff black out of those, Chase is a world apart from smirnoff black; it's fantastic stuff.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I love the whole "tasting" mockery. Just say it like it is; me and mates gonna get sh*tfaced on vodka.

It's not like you sit there, sipping vodka and going "omnomnom yes good".

Or if you indeed do, ooh lala mister hoitytoity

 

[Zenith.UK]

What's there to taste?
In my mind, vodka = water + alcohol
Since I don't care for the taste of alcohol on it's own, I don't drink vodka.

 

[Mey]

School girls!

 

[Ch3tan]

Belvedere is okay, better than your smirnoff's etc, but not close to chase.

 

[Krazeh]

What's there to taste?
In my mind, vodka = water + alcohol
Since I don't care for the taste of alcohol on it's own, I don't drink vodka.

Have heard this claim from so many people who don't drink vodka and it's just so wrong. Vodka may not have as strong a taste as other spirits but it certainly does have one and you can easily tell the difference between a premium vodka and something like Smirnoff.

Need to get my hands on a bottle of Chase i think, know a couple of people who've tried it and they say it's really really nice. Sort of vodka that can easily be drunk straight or with nothing more than the addition of a little bit of freshly squeezed lime juice.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Simple truth is; vodka is for drinking, not tasting

I should know.

 

[Ch3tan]

Ice and a bit of lime

I finished my marmelade chase the other day, quite upsetting that it's gone.

 

[cHodAX]

Belvedere is okay, better than your smirnoff's etc, but not close to chase.

Bang on, it is overpriced boutique crap, at least Chase comes from a trusted source and is made with passion.

 

[cHodAX]

Simple truth is; vodka is for drinking, not tasting

I should know.

You are Finnish, a people who know nothing about tasting and everything about swallowing.

 

[old.Tohtori]

You are Finnish, a people who know nothing about tasting and everything about swallowing.

Yeap, tasting is for Swedes, prudes and English hoitytoities

You know the swallowing isn't so bad in every situation

 

[cHodAX]

You know the swallowing isn't so bad in every situation

That is what Vlad tells me, not sure I want to find out though. I'll take it on the tits like most Manc lasses do.

 

[kiliarien]

I love the whole "tasting" mockery. Just say it like it is; me and mates gonna get sh*tfaced on vodka.

It's not like you sit there, sipping vodka and going "omnomnom yes good".

Or if you indeed do, ooh lala mister hoitytoity

Well actually we did this because of a conversation we had about whether there IS a taste difference. The 2005 Kauffman was a present and costs in excess of £100 so we wondered whther it really did make a difference. The answer was; resoundingly yes. I have always found Black to be really smooth but put next to the others it was as rough as a badger's arse.

The consensus with us was that Black was last, then Chase, then Mamont and the Kauffman was by far and away better (although personally I preferred the Chase over the Mamont but I was outvoted.)

After the tasting we did just get down to it of course and we mullered the Black, Chase & Mamont. We couldn't bring ourselves to drink more of the Kauffman after that as it wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference if it was supermarket nasty after the first bottle. And at over £100 a bottle? Fook that.

I'll stick to slumming it with my run-of-the-mill vodka's, altthough I'll have to try that Belvedere.

 

[Lamp]

Chase do a marmelade one as well

 

[Ch3tan]

Ice and a bit of lime

I finished my marmelade chase the other day, quite upsetting that it's gone.

Chase do a marmelade one as well

You are losing it in your old age mate, cho mark 2

 

[Lamp]

Limited Edition Chase Marmalade Vodka - £35.00 : Chase

 

[kiliarien]

Limited Edition Chase Marmalade Vodka - £35.00 : Chase

They do a smoked one too that I want to try.

Buy Chase Smoked Vodka | Vodka Emporium | Buy Vodka Online - www.vodkaemporium.com

 

[Nate]

Isn't chase the English vodka that beat all others in some awards? Remember reading about it a while ago.

 

[kiliarien]

Isn't chase the English vodka that beat all others in some awards? Remember reading about it a while ago.

Aye that's the one

 

[cHodAX]

Just like our Nyetimber won best sparkling white wine, beating every champagne on the planet.

 

[Marc]

All vodka tastes the same to me :s It serves one purpose, to get me shit faced

 

[cHodAX]

All vodka tastes the same to me :s It serves one purpose, to get me shit faced

You aren't drinking the good stuff then, the mass market stuff is for getting hammered but 'some' of the boutique vodka is very good drinking and worth the money.

 

[Ceixah]

Try Uluvka