Flavor infused vodkas reviewed by A.V.Club

by Shayna Glick, Posted Jun 27th 2008 @ 7:01PM

Three martini glasses with vodka and olives in each.

If you're a fan of flavored vodkas and can stand a little fun being poked at you, I recommend this post from the A.V.Club. They reviewed three new flavors of vodka from Three Olives brand, and it's pretty amusing.

The flavors in question are tomato, root beer, and triple shot espresso. Not being a huge vodka fan in the first place, I found this review ,um, not too helpful, but entertaining. In the name of humor, they were a little homophobic, but I tried to remember to take it with a grain of salt.

Apparently, the tomato flavor was the least popular, which sounds reasonable to me. Can anyone find a reason for tomato flavored vodka? It didn't even get great reviews with bloody mary mix. The root beer flavor was deemed "all right', but apparently it went well in a root beer float. The triple shot espresso was by far the favorite. A.V.club also tried it with a Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino to raves.

If you have your own personal review of these or any flavored vodkas I'd love to read it. Maybe it'd inspire me to try vodka more often.

Filed Under: Raves & Reviews, On the Blogs, Drink Recipes
Tags: avclub, espresso, flavored vodka, FlavoredVodka, root beer, RootBeer, starbucks, three olives, ThreeOlives, tomato, vodka

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6-27-2008 @7:37PM Bear said... I think that reviewer has issues....

One of the best vodka infusions I've had is one I did myself not long ago -- vodka infused with dill. I took enough fresh dill to fill most of a 750ml bottle (once it had branched out) and added a bottle of ordinary Stoli to it. Put in a cool dark place and let sit for about a week and a half. When you take it out, it'll have a nice greenish hue to it and a great flavor.
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6-28-2008 @9:43PM STH said... "In the name of humor, they were a little homophobic, but I tried to remember to take it with a grain of salt."

You know, that sentence just kind of jumped out at me. I don't mean this as a criticism of you, Shayna, but why shouldn't we take homophobia seriously? If it were racist, you wouldn't try to take it with a grain of salt. Homophobia is less serious, less hurtful, than racism? And, again, I'm not criticizing you, Shayna, but rather the culture in general.

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7-17-2008 @11:55AM Lana said... Just got back from Charleston SC where Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka is all the rage! Produced in Charleston it tastes just like sweet tea when mixed with water or pink lemonade. Bars were running out of it!
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7-18-2008 @12:00PM HotForWords said... I like my vodka infused with vodka :-)

I just did a video on why Russians drink vodka like water! I went about it etymologically.. so I hope you find it somewhat humorous :-)

http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/12/vodka-like-water/

Marina
www.hotforwords.com
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