Alaska Distillery Makes Hemp-Flavored Vodka

Alaska Distillery Makes Hemp-Flavored Vodka For "Pot Day" -- Reuters

(Reuters) - Fresh on liquor store shelves, in time for an unofficial holiday celebrating marijuana use, is a new vodka distilled in Alaska with hemp seed - but it won't give drinkers a pot-induced high.

Wasilla-based Alaska Distillery this week introduced "Purgatory," which it says is the world's only vodka distilled with the seed associated with the marijuana plant.

"For 4/20, it's a great alternative because it's legal," said Bella Coley, chief operating officer for the micro-distillery.

Among cannabis users, "420" is code for consumption of the drug, and April 20 is treated as a high holiday in the subculture.

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My Comment: A smart marketing gimmick.

There's Vodka .... And The There's Vodka

In the clear: caviar needs the softer and more expansive taste of Russian-style wheat vodka, not the more assertive rye vodka usually made in Poland

Victoria Moore On Vodka -- The Telegraph

Rye or wheat, or maybe even potato? Prickly, plump or slippery? There’s vodka, and then there’s vodka!

Goodness knows where he was off to, but a few weeks ago that lovely Stevie Parle tweeted, slightly bashfully, to ask what one should drink with caviar. Bear with me on this.

“Vodka,” I replied. Within five minutes a friend who had been eyeballing the Twitter conversation rang me up.

“Have you told him it needs to be wheat vodka?” he wanted to know. He sounded a bit beside himself. “You can’t drink rye vodka with caviar: it’s so sharp, it would just hack into it, I mean it would be like eating caviar with knives in your mouth – it would destroy the smooth texture.”

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My Comment: My favorite is Belvedere and Grey Goose .... served ice cold of course.