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ummm nick - feel free to pick me up a bottle of kirkland and i'll compare since i don't have a costco card... i usually drink kettle one though but i'll buy a bottle of grey goose just for this experiment.. lol |
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I just went to COSTCO this past weekend and we did not need a COSTCO membership ( in florida) to purchase alcohol. The liquor store is actually completely seperated from the rest of the store and the clerk told us that there's a law prohibiting them to require a membership in order to purchase alcohol, just ID. I thought the vodka was great. I've drank a lot of cheap Vodka's throughout college and have become really sensitive to the taste. I loaded my drinks up and couldn't hardly taste a thing. Well worth the price. It compares well to Grey Goose if it isn't the same. I didn't notice a difference especially because it's so smooth. But, I wouldn't doubt it is grey goose because there's no costco or walgreens or walmart that are personally going into every business (medicine, meats, alcohol) for themselves to compete as a name brand, yet we can buy their generic products that have their name on it. That's because they don't get into those businesses. They are resellers and typically they can sign contracts with other company's (Advil, Sara Lee, Grey Goose, etc) to have them package and label their products under their name and the parent company gets a commission off their sales. But they sell at a much lower price because the parent company sells to them at a large discount typically half the retail price for being a large distributor and is ultimately making money on it as well. The Kirkland Vodka is great. Super cheap to split between multiple people and more than enough to last a small group an entire night. But tastes good. |
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Actually, the number of times a vodka is distilled has nothing to do with the quality of the vodka. It's a complete marketing scheme that companies picked up on a few years back, when vodka became what it is today. To make vodka, you distill it till it's pure alcohol or 180 proof. If it takes you 3 times to reach this, then it takes you 3 times. Many smaller production vodka's (which are typically better) have smaller distillation procedures so it takes them longer to reach 180 proof. The "quality" of a vodka comes from how it's filtered, and the quality of the water added to the 180proof vodka. Water is added to bring the vodka down to it's bottling proof. The quality of the water is far more important than the number of times a vodka is distilled. Finally, the vodka is filtered. Filtering is used to remove as many impurities from the vodka as possible. The better the filtration (more expensive vodka's use a micro quartz freeze filtration, or something similar, while cheaper vodkas will use a charcol filtration), the smoother the final product. |
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