Ive been experimenting with vodka lately to make a _nice_ tasting blend (softdrink taste smoother then smirnoff ice) while having the same if not more alcohol in the drink..

Mainly lately i've been experimenting with vodkas so tell me this:

*If you drink straight alcohol, then some of these questions don't apply to you*
1) [What] do you mix with [Ins Alcohol] to make it more drinkable [and quantities]
2) [Spirit] you rate best taste when taken straight?
3) [Spirit] you rate worse taste taken straight?
4) [Alcohol] that makes you throw up the most? (I throw up almost everytime i drink vodka, but its clear and the guy at the shop said that gin tastes worse)
5) What [premixed drink] do you think tastes best?

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My general vodka mix per 330ml is:
1) Put 200mls of Flavoured Drink [lemonade or solo] into Measuring Cup
2) Put that into Large Cup
3) Put 60mls into Measuring Cup
4) Fill measuring cup up to just below 130 (200 + 130 = 330)
5) Tip measuring Cup through cloth Strainer into Large Cup
6) Tip contents of large cup through strainer to another large cup
7) Poor contents into a bottle or drink from cup
8) Best ice cold

9) Recarbonate if flat
10) If doesnt taste good enough, add softdrink syrup
(6.5% alcoholic)
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Mix i tried tonight for a 4xdrink(35ml) in 340mls:
1) 140mls vodka (4 drinks)
2) 5mls 'XStream' softdrink syrup (its vee/redbull type drink in a syrup)
3) 15mls Lite-Lemonade syrup (more runny then non-lite)
4) Blend 1/2/3 together (not sure if this was a good or bad thing)
5) 80mls lemonade
6) 100mls soda water
(15% alcoholic)

7) Recarbonate if goes flat
8) Drink ice cold
^^ That one was really strong, so I halved the contents and filled the rest with another 10mls of lemonade syrup, and 5mls of cola syrup then filled the bottle with more lemonade - tasted okay then
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Problem with using concentrated syrups is that too much of it will make the drink more sickening then drinking it straight, so i came out with this mix:
1) 70mls vodka (2 drinks)
2) 5mls 'XStream' softdrink syrup
3) 10mls Lite-Lemonade syrup (more runny then non-lite)
4) 5mls cola
3) Blend 1/2/3/4 together (not sure if this was a good or bad thing)
4) 240mls lemonade

5) Recarbonate if goes flat
6) Drink ice cold
^^ That one was heaps better, but still seemed to taste alot stronger then the first 60ml one..
(7.5% alcoholic)

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I really want to make the drink strong, but not taste the alcohol - so i can get f***ed off acouple drinks and not have to really force myself to go through the process..

Also when i blended the alcohol and opened up the top, a white gas appeared - was that fumes from the alcohol or alcohol itself? is it bad if it floats away/does it make it less alcoholic?

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Last time i went out it took 2.5L of goon and 4xSmirnoffs before I couldnt walk straight - so im looking at packing all that into a single drink :D!

I drink beer.

Tequila is easy to shot, Gin is a f***ing horrible drink. First and last time i drank it was schoolies in 2000. I still have nightmares about it. Heaps of people love it though.

Dunno if you'd class bundy draft as a premix but its gooood.

Step 1: Grab Bottle of Burboun.
Step 2: Remove Cap
Step 3: Drink
Step 4: Drink
Step 5: Drink
Step 6: Drunk
Step 7: Beat on chest like King Kong as you were manly enough to not go about using measuring cups to drink alcohol.

bourbon & coke

vodka & soda

vodka, lemon, lime & bitters if i'm feeling girly

jagers if they're cheap

the s*** you're making sounds way too sweet.

try a good vodka like stolichnaya, smirnoff is horrid

jesus christ dude, if you're too much of a fag to drink, just don't f***ing drink.

I dunno why people want to get so f***ed they end up spastic anyway; you pay the price the next day plus its freaking terrible for you.

While stinky's sentiment is pretty valid, you could also just try drinking those girl drinks which taste like candy water. I imagine you could reproduce them at home by just heaping sugar into vodka and lemonade or something.

jesus christ dude, if you're too much of a fag to drink, just don't f***ing drink.

id much prefer to take drugs, but to gain the same satisfaction in effect id need illegal ones

I dunno why people want to get so f***ed they end up spastic anyway; you pay the price the next day plus its freaking terrible for you.

ive never had a hangover

taste of beer makes me want to rip my tastebuds out and purge the contents of my stomach. jim beam black ftw

pop a couple of pingers, you'll probably have a better night for cheaper without the hangover

dude, using measuring cups is so newbie, you need to do titrations to get your alcohol/mixer concentrations correct

i hope this thread is a joke

i have been drinking dry margaritas lately. man they get you f***ed.

pop a couple of pingers, you'll probably have a better night for cheaper without the hangover

then on tuesday you'll top yourself

that makes as much sense as your face nef!

Vodka + Agrum

In fact, just Agrum... this is the most underrated soft drink of all time, absolutely cainer :)

jesus christ dude, if you're too much of a fag to drink, just don't f***ing drink.

Good on you moron. Image is nothing. Thirst is everything. Obey your thirst.

Bourbon & dry with no ice. Nice bourbon, like makers mark, or wild turkey.

If you're trying to make a drink that will kill you, I had one made for me when I was about 17. My very helpful work mates said "Just go up to the bar and ask for a mother f***er.". So I did. It was a shot of every white spirit in a middy (or pot) glass with a dash of lemonade and orange juice. It actually didn't taste too bad, but you certainly knew you were drinking it :)

if you drink vodka you have a vagina, or you're Russian

Bailey's is pretty nice to have straight, theres some new caramel flavor out i want to try.

Rum is pretty dirty to have straight, but you're a pussy if you can't do it.

Umm, Gin & Soda water is pretty nice tasting (i know it's usually mixed with tonic water, but..), i had a decent amount of that London Bombay stuff about 50:50 with soda water, went down very smoothly.

When i do vodka i usually just mix it with lemonade or something.

ive never had a hangover

Probably because of the amount of time it takes you to measure up your next f***ing drink.

cc&dry ftw

Nothing girlie about drinking straight vodka and it shouldn't be looked down upon.

If you mix though, you do have ovaries.

I had some of that absolut stuff once, it was nice. Does that make me a chick? :(

Probably because of the amount of time it takes you to measure up your next f***ing drink.

Ahahahahahaha.

*golfclaps*

Vodka is terrible.

Jim Beam Black ftw.

try a good vodka like stolichnaya, smirnoff is horrid

as a bar manager with a serious passion for booze done well and as someone who undertakes a fair amount of "professional development" and "excessive product loyalty" i respectfully disagree. chemically, smirnoff is the cleanest vodka in the world. their ad about the new york times doing a blind taste test of 21 vodkas is true. smirnoff was only added to the list because it is the worlds largest selling spirit. by far.

Rum is pretty dirty to have straight, but you're a pussy if you can't do it.

you're just drinking the wrong kind of rum. we got a couple of free sample bottles of angostura, the company that makes the most common bitters. the 1919 and the 1824. tastes like love.

also, as someone who takes booze way too seriously for a living i absolutely deplore your intentions. booze done well is a beautiful thing, like cooking an amazing meal. anyone can get s***faced and hate the taste. i dont do the most common shots of chartreuse, absinthe, sambucca (basically anything with a strong anise flavour) for that reason. there are better ways to make booze taste good than adding a s***load of sugar and that don't really cost that much more.

and back to the vodka, it's pretty much tastless. it just tastes like burning. tastes like booze. for shots it must be ice cold. for mixing it is incredibly versatile. brilliant over ice with a bit of muddled lime.

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inner circle rum is pretty good to shot.

im still hungover from work xmas party 2 days ago, tequila and galiano are not good to be shotting all night.

thread making me feel sick /leaves

Rum is pretty dirty to have straight, but you're a pussy if you can't do it.

If it's bundy rum, that's the most digusting thing I've heard in my life.

I would rather drink gasoline.

Can't comment on quality rum though.

If it's bundy rum, that's the most digusting thing I've heard in my life.

Yeah it's Bundy, it's not that hard to drink if you shot it.

I had some of that absolut stuff once, it was nice. Does that make me a chick? :(

Nar, its Smirnoff that's the chicks stuff.

Bailey's is pretty nice to have straight, theres some new caramel flavor out i want to try.

The new mint flavour is really good, but all Bailey's are practically non-alcoholic drinks.

i think its a bit to nerdy to accurately measure your alcohol, i just whip a bit of rum into a glass, fill up with coke and drink, usually ends up being more like half half towards the end of the night cos the drunker i get the more retarded my motor skills are in pouring and my eyesight grows poor, hence why fat chix are now hot.

canadian club + dry + lime.

fknoobs

as a bar manager with a serious passion for booze done well and as someone who undertakes a fair amount of "professional development" and "excessive product loyalty" i respectfully disagree. chemically, smirnoff is the cleanest vodka in the world. their ad about the new york times doing a blind taste test of 21 vodkas is true. smirnoff was only added to the list because it is the worlds largest selling spirit. by far.

does anyone really give a rats about chemically cleanest? smirnoff sells well because it's presented to mindless drones who are suckers for advertising. they spend megabucks on advertising making people feel like it's cool to drink smirnoff. smirnoff is crap vodka though, stolichnaya tastes all over it. americans don't know how to make vodka, it's as simple as that

and back to the vodka, it's pretty much tastless. it just tastes like burning. tastes like booze. for shots it must be ice cold. for mixing it is incredibly versatile. brilliant over ice with a bit of muddled lime.

dooooooood.... if you think vodka is tasteless how can you comment on which vodka is better

stolichnaya doesn't need to be cold or poured over ice or mixed with some faggy fruit, you just drink it whatever bloody temperature it is and it rocks

The new mint flavour is really good, but all Bailey's are practically non-alcoholic drinks.

Practically, except for the 17.5% or something alcohol in them.

Smirnoff vodka tastes like nail polish :S

Ok this what i do every weekend

Drink 5 Wild Turkey before i head out (2.1standard drinks) 8%

then once i am out i keep drinking i start off with rum coke then bourbon coke, then vodka orange then rum and coke and another rum and coke by then i have met a girl and having fun!

Practically, except for the 17.5% or something alcohol in them.

Lol unless you drink the whole bottle you won't get drunk off that.

Lol unless you drink the whole bottle you won't get drunk off that.

Yeah i spose, a 700ml bottle is only 10 standard drinks IIRC

Lol unless you drink the whole bottle you won't get drunk off that.

I used to always drink that Irish cream stuff, tastes the same and is like $13 a bottle.

A normal house glass is like 250 - 300ml or something, a bottle is 750ml.... just over 2 glasses for what? A decen't whack of standard drinks.

canadian club + dry + lime.

sounds good. I normally drink it with dry ... what sort of lime do you add? cheap extract bottle stuff, or a squeeze of real lime ?

always real lime.

at clubs i usually ask them to muddle the lime first, it gives it a real zing.

otherwise just normal cut up lime in it is fine. either way its the best drink ever.

I must try it... since Canad's + Ginger ale is one of the best mixes I've discovered.

i drink my beer straight up.

americans don't know how to make vodka, it's as simple as that

You fail. original purveyors of the russian court.

also, don't be silly. when i say vodka is tasteless let me qualify. vodka is distilled to around 98% and then goes through filtration. using smirnoff for an example, in a continuous still process for high volume production and most efficient distillation (which means less impurities, as distillation removes impurities) and then the charcoal filtration process, which i have witnessed with my own eyes on a small scale, removes taste. vodkas that don't undergo such stringent filtration process have more impurities, hence adding "taste".
another thing that removes taste is when alcohol approaches 40%+ it starts to numb your tastebuds. that's why you should always drink good scotch with a dash of spring water so you can appreciate the flavour without your tastebuds being affected.

i'd just like to point out, saying "who cares about 'chemically cleaner'" in this context is like saying "i don't care if all the scientific evidence and facts support the theory of evolution, i thing intelligent design sounds like a solid argument."

and strex know where it's at. if i asked for anything with lime and a bartender put lime cordial in it, i'd ask them to make me another one. with lime.

your own link says you fail

original purveyors of the russian court.

"Smirnoff claimed his distillery was the first in the world to use the charcoal filtering process. However this was found to be incorrect. By 1886 the Smirnov factory received the official purveyors to the Imperial Russian court mark."

wow, in 1886. what year are we in now? 2006 or something isn't it?


"However, the Great Depression made Vladimir Smirnov sell the brand to an American, Rudolph Kunett, in 1934 who moved the company to the USA. Thanks to the introduction of Vodka Cocktails and successful advertisement campaigns Smirnoff Vodka is the best selling vodka in the world. It is now owned by British drinks giant Diageo."

over 70 years of being a yank mob, plus the usefulness of your dopey claims of best-selling drink shattered by facts. they cover up the s*** taste with fruit and market the ass out of it, and voila, dumbos who think they are cultured in taste go nuts buying it

i'd just like to point out, saying "who cares about 'chemically cleaner'" in this context is like saying "i don't care if all the scientific evidence and facts support the theory of evolution, i thing intelligent design sounds like a solid argument."

I'd just like to point out, saying that in this context is _nothing_ like saying that at all. I'd also like to point out that introducing the idea that one vodka is allegedly a chemically cleaner product than another, has any bearing on whether a vodka tastes better than another, is the reasoning of a crack-addicted monkey.


real vodka, not s***-tasting crap like smirnoff

vodka rocks

Bourbon is tops

p.s. get some 42below intoya

stolichnaya is okay.

grey goose ftw.

grey goose is a recently created american vodka made for the sole purpose of obtaining market share in america.

fpot, you were suckered it.

when i drink the essence of rotting fermented potato peels i like the full rich flavour of brand x! brand y tastes like it fermented in the arse of a goat whereas brand x tastes like it went rotten in a pure silver tureen. :D

just like diamonds /sigh

grey goose is a recently created american vodka made for the sole purpose of obtaining market share in america.

Grey Goose is french - it routinely wins 'best vodka' awards

Grey Goose is french - it routinely wins 'best vodka' awards

I thought the winner of best vodka for a while now has been that Below 40 stuff

ahh trog, it isn't french.

while it is made in france, the company was set up by an american entrepreneur remotely from america.

france was selected for the sole reason of having a "aura" of percieved quality by americans.

Yeh, but that doesn't mean it's not french - it's made in france!

i thought effen was the recent winner?

Made in france = french.

Whatever else you say is purely your opinion.

I don't reckon it's that clear-cut, ara's comment is reasonable

A normal house glass is like 250 - 300ml or something, a bottle is 750ml.... just over 2 glasses for what? A decen't whack of standard drinks.

Chub, I have no idea what you're saying here...

ahh trog, it isn't french.

while it is made in france, the company was set up by an american entrepreneur remotely from america.

france was selected for the sole reason of having a "aura" of percieved quality by americans.

I'm guessing it is made by French people employing French methods and French experience and the only American part is the money? Which means it's French. But I'm just speculating. I must say I'm awful fond of a Grey Goose Martini...but maybe just because I like the name.

42 Below is also excellent....goes extremely well in a White Russian.

Southern and Coke with muddled lime is brilliant....the lime balances out the sweetness of the Southern. People go on about how Southern is a girly drink but generally they're the type of people who drink straight 'Bundy' cause it's tough.

bacardi is my regular drink of choice. i gave up beer years ago and don't miss it one bit. as for vodka - I always end up drinking too much of it and get smashed.

bourbon and coke

or beer

ftw

Chub, I have no idea what you're saying here...

Like someone said, there's 10 standard drinks or so in a bottle.

I can scull 2 glasses (basically a bottle) in 30 seconds.

How the hell could you not get pissed?

johnnie walker blue gold or black; straight and no ice. i dont like green or red that much. wouldnt touch a can of it. the cola makes me sick.

Or if I'm after a quick drink I get a johnnie black with no ice and a glass bottle of coke. f*** premixes :)