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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Toad on September 11, 2005, 11:46:51 PM
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OK, I'm not a big drinker period, vodka almost never.
But my son threw this one out and I had to check it out on the web. Supposed to work.
After all it's been tested at George Mason University! ;)
Render Grey Goose obsolete (http://mason.gmu.edu/~kmunkitt/Info%20Pages/britatrick.html)
Has anyone here tried running booze through a Brita? Does it work on any varieties? Does it work on all varieties?
Cheap bourbon through a Brita?
Any adventurers out there?
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We spoke of this in http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=148495&highlight=britta
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I wonder if that would remove denaturating agents..:)
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I've done this. For Labor Day we ran Winner's Cup (Safeway store brand, $10/1.75l) through the filter 5 times. It was excellent. We did a blind taste test against unfiltered Winner's Cup and it was no contest, filtered is much better. Next time we are going to test it blind against Chopin ($30/750ml), and I think it will do pretty well.
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I'm also going to test against my favorite "cheap" brands, Vodka Monopolowa and Tito's Handmade Vodka. Tito's is the only brand that has come close to Chopin in our previous drink-offs.
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Cheap Vodka ugh.. It's my least favorite thing inthe world. I'm sure we all have our dislikes in booze.. Any sort of Vodka makes me want to visit the throne goddess from hell.
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Chair, yes, I missed that thread. You're the only one who commented on it though.
I'm looking for folks that boldly went in search of the new frontier, like Funkmeister.
Funk... you suggest the 5X filtering method? Most of the on-line discussions say 3-4 but I can see where 5 might be better.
Has anyone tried this on cheap bourbon or Scotch? Or is that a new frontier I must boldly explore myself?
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Nuchpatrick, try and keep up! This thread is about converting cheap vodka into expensive tasting vodka through the magic of filters.
Many of us would be loathe to even run our cars on the plastic-jug stuff, but if Brita can indeed work it's magic, then any recalcitrance on the process would be based on snootiness rather then actual taste, yes?
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Originally posted by Toad
Chair, yes, I missed that thread. You're the only one who commented on it though.
I cannot be blamed when the others fail to note my brilliance!
Ok, perhaps I am not in possession of the requisite hours of sleep.
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Have you tried it?
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No, but in the interest of science, I now feel that I must. Prudence dictates that I wait until my workday is done. Hopefully I can find our filter somewhere in our packing boxes. Since moving from Los Angeles, we have not needed the services of our Brita as the tap water in the Eugene/Springfield area is tasty delicious, not to mention that I prefer to drink collected rainwater and pure grain alcohol to protect my precious bodily fluids.
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I actually tried "smuggled" korean SoJu (sp?) this weekend. It wasn't bad and had a nasty creeping effect to it.
[que good morning veitnam bar owner]
jest a touch of formaldihyde for flavor!
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You guys are going to be blind in a near future!
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Knowing this crowd, the real risk of blindness comes from a different Internet resource than 'vodka filtering', and I don't see a big demand for braille interfaces to AH yet, so I wouldn't be too worried.
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I can't read what you're typing. Can you use a bigger font?
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"smuggled" korean SoJu
Why would Soju be smuggled? Was it a specific kind(there are quite a few)? It's a very common drink around here(Flushing has a large Korean pop) Say no to Jinro(green bottle) there's a kind that comes in a rounded brown bottle that's pretty smooth
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Running vodka thru a filter definitely works. It would not work as well on whiskey or any wood aged spirit.
Funk, you like Tito's? I always have a bottle of it in the freezer. I've met him several times. He's a very cool guy.
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Interesting.
Is Brita a simple charcoal filter?
I talked to chemists here in my institute, they told me that filters sold here, that are mostly ion-exchange, will give an unpredictable result on ethanol solutions.
OTOH here we have vodka that is good enough without any additional filtering, it may simply kill the taste.
I use some Russian filter for tap water, it was a present, I am satisfied with tap-water quality here in Moscow, but if I have a filter and a stock of cassetes for it - why not use it? At least it kills every trace of chlorine smell.
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LOL
I told you so!
RO water and grain/potato alcohol = premium vodka.
Oh yeah right, people like vodka because it tastes good.
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Originally posted by Suave
LOL
I told you so!
RO water and grain/potato alcohol = premium vodka.
Oh yeah right, people like vodka because it tastes good.
It's up to you. If you like aquavita - it's OK, but I prefer wheat vodka because it's tasty. I understand that if you drink it mixed there is not much difference, but I like it plain.
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Originally posted by Suave
Oh yeah right, people like vodka because it tastes good.
Standby for the forthcoming rush of "pinky extended", "red velvet covered throne", "above the mere mortals", "some of us don`t drink to cop a buzz" posts. :)
"I only drink to be social" and "It`s soooooo PC" BS. :)
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I think it is primarily an activated charcoal filter. Nothing special there, really.
The "word" on the web is:
"The filter will predominately remove Organic compounds that are greater than 3 carbons in length from systems. It will also remove Inorganics, such as salt, and large metallic chelates as well."
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Originally posted by Boroda
It's up to you. If you like aquavita - it's OK, but I prefer wheat vodka because it's tasty. I understand that if you drink it mixed there is not much difference, but I like it plain.
Oh shirt Boroda, you'd drink my backpack stove fuel if you had access to it.
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Originally posted by Suave
Oh shirt Boroda, you'd drink my backpack stove fuel if you had access to it.
Sure, if I'll be tired and will not have any vodka or brandy.
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Originally posted by Boroda
but I like it plain.
Plain is great, but I like it cold if possible.
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Originally posted by Boroda
Sure, if I'll be tired and will not have any vodka or brandy.
Someday warbirds will be a thing of the past and you will be able to come to the AH con, and you and I will rumble. Tire irons, piano legs and broadswords. Two men enter one man leaves.
We'll get one of those inflatable castle trampolines for that part.
Don't misinterpret this as levity either, I will go directive 21 on your ass.
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You need to aim better. Instead, say you'll "Black Raven" him.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Black_Ravens.jpg)
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Originally posted by Suave
Someday warbirds will be a thing of the past and you will be able to come to the AH con, and you and I will rumble. Tire irons, piano legs and broadswords. Two men enter one man leaves.
We'll get one of those inflatable castle trampolines for that part.
Don't misinterpret this as levity either, I will go directive 21 on your ass.
I doubt that I'll need your backpack stove spirit at the Con, I'll probably bring some better alcohol.
Frankly speaking - I didn't expect such a reaction to "I'll drink your stove ethanol", as if I said "I will take your land, water and women"... :rolleyes:
;)
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Walmart sells a dupont water pitcher for 9.97. It comes with one filter. Additional filters are at most 5.00 if you buy them singly. You can use one filter for appoximately 4 litres of vodka. maybe more. At the local liquor store, kamchatka vodka is 6.49 for a 5th..hehe...after filtration (4 or 5 times) it tastes like it costs 25.00 and it takes only about an hour to do it.
i fell off the wagon...so what?
hehe
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Holy thread ressurection Batman!!
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They did this on Mythbusters, If i recall the "expert" couldn't tell the difference. They also had several different amounts of filtering.
You're also supposed to be able to make toothpaste with vodka and cinnamon left in a bottle for a week or so, and clean your feet with vodka. To each their own.
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Last time I drank vodka I drank a half gallon and passed out in the streets in my underwear.
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Crown Royal thru a r.o. filter defeats the purpose, just a FYI
shamus
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Originally posted by Shamus
Crown Royal thru a r.o. filter defeats the purpose, just a FYI
I'm unfamiliar with Crown Royal vodka, I know only of the whisky.
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Originally posted by Chairboy
I'm unfamiliar with Crown Royal vodka, I know only of the whisky.
Was a joke..run any of this stuff thru an ro filter and you will be disappointed.
shamus
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I guess I don't follow. Why would you run whiskey through a brita? Vodka quality is about purity, so this technique works w/ it. When you say "any of this stuff" through a filter will leave you disapointed, do you mean the Vodka or the Whiskey?
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Chairboy,
I think he's saying that since the principle behind an RO filter is that only pure H2O molecules can go through the semi-permeable filter membrane, running alcohol of any type through an RO filter would result in a disappointing product if you were looking for a cleaner or better tasting alcoholic product.
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Perhaps that's what should happen, but research seems to suggest otherwise, specifically as applies to Vodka (which doesn't have flavoring agents the way Whiskey does).
http://www.ohmygoditburns.com/wordpress/index.php?p=4
That is, if as it appears in your post above, you're calling shennigans on the Britta method for Vodka.
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They're doing it wrong. You've got to filter the water first, then add the etoh.
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Brita isn't true RO. It's actually a fine ceramic filter with a charcoal filter layer. It does a great job of filtering out solids and chemicals that taste like crap, and the charcoal layer also grabs some dissolved metals. But it's definately not an RO filter.
If it helps, just think of brita filters as a charcoal and fluff fishtank filter in a neat white plastic shell.
RO filters will stop everything including bacteria and other hazardous contaminants. Brita specifically warns that their filters do nothing to stop stuff that will make you sick, and only "safe" water should be run through brita filters in the first place.
Given the purpose and design behind brita filters, it makes a whole lot of sense to me that vodka run through a brita filter might taste better.
I am not a vodka expert and have never tried it myself so I have no personal experience with this, but it seems to make sense to me.
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Used to steal RO water from work for my reef tank at home.
Incedentally, the best and probably only portable non-electric water filter and purifier ( there's and important differance), Is made by a company called First Need. Cost $70 wieghs 15oz. Because iodine tablets don't make swamp scum anymore apealing to drink.
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Im quite sure large commercial distillars filter the finished product exactly how they want it to look and taste so any attmepts to improve on this with GOOD COMMERCIAL vodka would simply be a waste of GOOD COMMERCIAL vodka. Large distillers have quality controll people who are real experts and genuises on the product they are trying to sell and if somebody could turn a ho hum batch of vodka into a miracle brew with a charcoal filter, they would have done it at the factory. Now if your getting your vodka by the plastic gallon jug out of somebodys trunk in the wee hours, you may want to strain it through a pasta strainer or something to remove the floaties.
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Originally posted by Suave
Used to steal RO water from work for my reef tank at home.
Incedentally, the best and probably only portable non-electric water filter and purifier ( there's and important differance), Is made by a company called First Need. Cost $70 wieghs 15oz. Because iodine tablets don't make swamp scum anymore apealing to drink.
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I bought a ge reverse osmosis filter from Home Depot last year and love it. It costs 150, plus about 35 dollars per year for pre-filters. It requires no electric. removes 98% of everything except radon gas, and that usually isnt in water. If you guys write to your water treatment facility they will supply you with a list of 'ingredients' that are in your drinking water. Lets see, lead, barium, manganese, nitrates (fertillizer runoff), chlorine, fluoride, the list goes on and on. They each have a maximum ppm level, but when you put all these things in one cup of water, it cant be good for you. Keep in mind, we are the long term test subjects on how much of this stuff is really safe for people to consume.
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I have heard of people using a distillation purifying unit to improve taste such as this kenmore model:
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?pid=03234480000
I suspect it would work but haven't tried it.
Regards,
Malta
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This was on Mythbusters. They brought in a professional vodka taste tester.
They ran cheap vodka through 10 different times. He was able to put them in order perfectly in a blind taste test.
The summary was, it's simply cheaper to buy top shelf.
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These people did a similar test and reported their results on the web:
http://www.ohmygoditburns.com/wordpress/index.php?p=4
From what I can tell from their experiment, by the time you reach the tenth sample, the vodka generally starts tasting better along with the observation that cold vodka tastes better than warm. I wonder if that would work without a filter? Hmm, sounds like a job for another internet science experiment.
Regards,
Malta
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wow, old thread...
i have done this before though, it was some pretty strong estonian stuff (the stuff you're meant to dilute). filtered the stuff 4 times, and then mixed it 1:1 with filtered water, best vodka i ever tried...
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Filtering is a good idea when you bought something like "Pervach". To separate the most part of fusel oil. In all other cases, only you need is to buy good and quality Russian Vodka.
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In Soviet Russia potato ferment you.
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in russia, web browser keep tabs on you!:O :O :noid :noid :noid :noid :noid :noid :noid :D