So.... Do people actually like Vodka?

Anonymous

I'm curious, do people really like the stuff? Personally I cant stand it, it's like white spirit, probs do just as good job cleaning my cassette as white spirit does too!, my flatmates all fill up on vodka and orange before they go out clubbing wearing hardly anything, and even with orange I still cant stand it, the taste makes me want to puke...

Apple Sourz... They taste nice, but it's got paint stripper in so it ruins it... I don't mind beer sometimes, and cider, but anything else is kinda odd, I mean only reason I can see people wanting to drink anything is to purely get p155ed, which I don't think is a way to enjoy oneself on a night out, getting p155ed....

Elganesh

I can't stand vodka and orange. It's marginally better with coke though I'm a JD man myself.

If you want decent vodka go to Poland where they serve it in a bewildering variety of ways.
Honey vodka and tea anyone?

Now I think about it, I think it's time to break out the posh tumblers and sipping whisky!

Ghost Donkey

I used to love the stuff in my early twenties, often mixed with orange juice or iron bru. I built up quite a resistance and could drink strong mixes or neat. The only trouble I had was remembering I didn't have the same resistance after I'd stopped drinking for a while.

I tried saki recently. Very easy on the pallette.

System_1

I'll drink it, mixed with coke normally, though I've never been much of a fan until a friend brought some Zubrowka Bison Grass vodka back from Poland. That stuff is amazing.

fatblokefromwarwick

Smirnoff with ice cold diet coke..........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm lovely

Just brought home some Bushmills Original earlier, very smooth

nicklouse

System wrote:

I'll drink it, mixed with coke normally, though I've never been much of a fan until a friend brought some Zubrowka Bison Grass vodka back from Poland. That stuff is amazing.

i was just going to mention that one. nice.

chriskempton

nicklouse wrote:

System wrote:

I'll drink it, mixed with coke normally, though I've never been much of a fan until a friend brought some Zubrowka Bison Grass vodka back from Poland. That stuff is amazing.

i was just going to mention that one. nice.

Can I just suggest Zubrowka and apple juice?

That's a great drink.

nicklouse

chriskempton

Neat or with Ice. why change the flavour.

I am also liking the Russian Standard.

singlespeedexplosif

apart from the aforementioned Zubrowka and apple juice, mixing ANYTHING with Vodka is 100% of wrong. Get quality vodka, stick it in the freezer, drink on its own. Wonderful stuff.
Many of the flavoured vodkas are truly ace too (not the sickly sweet Absolut type stuff, but proper flavoured vodkas - pepper, garlic, paper etc)

howiejmidlands

I would not drink vodka in the UK, horrid stuff.

But in Russia, where they have flavoured vodka......jjeeeeezzzzzz its rocket fuel.

In my time there i have been drunk to the point of insanity on cherry vodka, horse radish vodka, garlic vodka (garlic pickled in beetroot juice, makes it luminous pink) black pepper vodka was nice. All of them were "brewed" on site at a very good eatery in Moscow. Each shot was 60grams. I lost count after 5 shots!!

Surprisingly my Russian girlfriend only likes the straight clear vodka, and not the flavoured stuff.

ExeterSimon

Belvedere or Grey Goose.

Sorry...just don't do the Russian stuff or the crap most pubs/clubs serve. Yes Smirnoff...I'm talking about you.

Another vote for Zubrowka as well. Unfortunately I have a trip to our Polish office planned soon. Not much work gets done after the first night on that stuff.

Stewie Griffin

Another vote for Zubrowka from the freezer with apple juice. Poland is Vodka Country, they make the best stuff. My ex is Polish and thankfully we are still good friends and she usually brings me back a different bottle everytime she goes home 8) .

Bikerbaboon

1L of vodka.
juce and zest of 6 lemons
good wack of suger to sweeten the lemons.
Heat gently to disolve the suger.

1 week in the freezer. pass though a filter to remove the zest.

Re freeze again over night.
consume cold from a shot glass or mixed with lemonade.
Its like a lemon coated bomb.

shockedsoshocked

I went off vodka at Uni after waking up in places I shouldn't be waking up in, with people I really, really shouldn't have been waking up with

finchy

Will, if you can't handle the vodka you get in the UK, trust me - never, ever go to Eastern Europe.

Over there they have proper alcohol, really fierce stuff. My favourite is meggyes palinka (cherry brandy) from Hungary. In -20 temperatures that warms you up nicely.

Becherovka from Slovakia is nice as well - a herb liquor, a bit strange at first but undeniably good. Not to mention the slivovica/slivowtiz/silva palinka (plum brandy) - the stuff that Brits abroad usually miss out on when they're sitting in their city centre Irish bar in Prague drinking Guiness.

Anonymous

I can handle Vodka, well I used to be able to, just it all tastes disgusting from what I've had.

passout

I don't mind the flavoured stuff too much and I actually really like Chilli Vodka. I also like a Bloody Mary now and again. That's it though. I think Brandy, Whisky and even Gin are much better drinks that Vodka on the whole. By itself it's very dull and lacks flavour.

holmeboy

Did'nt i here somewere's many year's ago that neat Vodka is actually tasteless? :?

snakehips

Black Russian is a decent drink , in moderation. Bung some vodka in with coffee liqueur and one ice cube (don't want to drown it)

knedlicky

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

I went off vodka at Uni after waking up in places I shouldn't be waking up in, with people I really, really shouldn't have been waking up with

In trying to recommend vodka to me one time, my sis told me that when she went out and drank vodka all evening, she always had something unexpected and exciting happen to her. :?

brucey72

My mum is polish and makes the most amazing lemon and cherry vodkas. She doesn't actually make the vodka but flavours a decent polish one. Put it in the freezer and serve it neat.

Enter the word " smirnoff" into a message on your mobile using your predictive text and see what word comes up.........................says it all really

Stewie Griffin

brucey72 wrote:

My mum is polish and makes the most amazing lemon and cherry vodkas. She doesn't actually make the vodka but flavours a decent polish one. Put it in the freezer and serve it neat.

Enter the word " smirnoff" into a message on your mobile using your predictive text and see what word comes up.........................says it all really

:shock: Never drinking that again, it must be true too or it wouldnt happen would it :P ?

System_1

Looks like another bottle of Zubrowka and a carton of apple juice is going on tomorrows shopping list. I never thought of mixing it like that. Sounds good.

neeb

Vodka is for alcoholics, or for people who want to get drunk but don't really like or appreciate more sophisticated alcoholic drinks. Alcoholics like it because it maximises alcohol content while minimizing the "morning after" effects that are partially due to secondary substances that other drinks have more of. Kids like it because it you mix it with sugar and water it tastes like a fizzy drink rather than like a grown-up drink such as beer or wine, which are acquired tastes; why do you think the drinks companies market those alcopops to teenagers? Now, I know that in many Eastern European countries Vodka is a massive part of the culture (including in Finland, where I am), but then being an alcoholic is a pretty big part of the culture in many of these places too...

teagar

neeb wrote:

Kids like it because it you mix it with sugar and water it tastes like a fizzy drink rather than like a grown-up drink such as beer or wine, which are acquired tastes; why do you think the drinks companies market those alcopops to teenagers? .

You say that. Ever been out on a Friday or Saturday night? You see an awful lot of 20/30 somethings drinking alcopops. Especially women. An awful lot.

neeb

You say that. Ever been out on a Friday or Saturday night? You see an awful lot of 20/30 somethings drinking alcopops. Especially women. An awful lot.

These 20/30 somethings are probably the same kids (grown up) that were drinking them the last time I used to go out regularly on Friday and Saturday nights in the UK...

Oh well, anything's got to be better than Stella A...

BigStu2

Everyone has missed the greatest mix, Red Bull and Vodka, where would we be without it.
Over here & I believe in London as well there is the Ice Bar where every drink is vodka based, Absolut-ly cool, fun to visit in summer, not so much fun in winter.

finchy

I used to go out with a girl who was studying Russian. When I went with her to her teacher's house, I was offered a vodka. The teacher came back with a large wine glass full. :shock:

When I drank it too slowly (ie I didn't down it), she assumed I didn't like it. Not wanting to upset my hostess, I polished it off in about ten minutes and went to the toilet. When I came back there was another glassful waiting for me.

It was good Russian stuff, but I'd never got drunk in half an hour before, and I never will again.

ris

neeb wrote:

Vodka is for alcoholics, or for people who want to get drunk but don't really like or appreciate more sophisticated alcoholic drinks. Alcoholics like it because it maximises alcohol content while minimizing the "morning after" effects that are partially due to secondary substances that other drinks have more of. Kids like it because it you mix it with sugar and water it tastes like a fizzy drink rather than like a grown-up drink such as beer or wine, which are acquired tastes; why do you think the drinks companies market those alcopops to teenagers? Now, I know that in many Eastern European countries Vodka is a massive part of the culture (including in Finland, where I am), but then being an alcoholic is a pretty big part of the culture in many of these places too...

neeb, not even an exception for koskenkorva?

zubrowka is about the only vodka i can stand, but if i can find it (and i hardly ever see it) i quite like starka (another polish number).

neeb

neeb, not even an exception for koskenkorva? Wink

Ahh, the dreaded "Perjantaipullo" ("Friday bottle")...

I'm afraid still a whisky man myself...

Phil92

That drink ruined me last weekend...

Kind of a fun story but if you don't like tales skip this post

So I brought half a litre of Smirnoff Vodka from Asda on Friday - one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made. After chilling around some peoples' houses, I ended up going to an old friend's house party - his 17th. So I got there and this place is full of chavy, rough guys and "easy" girls. I mean the people that mug guys like me for fun. And just to give some context - tough guys who drink beer with their cereal + me, long haired ex-greeb wearing slim black jeans with a pop-art belt plastered with police stickers (they were free!) = a bad mix. So I'm there, I only know 3 people and everyone is wasted. By that time I had a few swigs from my bottle so I was still sober but I decided to sit down on some chair and fiddle with my phone - so I don't look like a complete loner. I look up and this girl was practically down this guys pants! Dancing and wiggling! Hence I drank a little more, I needed it to be in the same room with that girl grinding on 3 different guys thoughout the night. From then on I don't know what happened. Two thirds of the Vodka later and I'm hammered. Turns out I fell down this guy's stairs, cut up my face, put mascara over my cheeks and fell asleep on his lawn.

In the end, the one guy I knew took me home - half a mile took him an hour. Gotta love him for that



The moral of the story: Vodka - don't drink unless you like falling on your face! Especialy neat.