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the spirit that tastes like nothing and ruins everything with maximum efficiency
means A clear distilled spirit, typically made from grains or potatoes, prized for its near-neutral flavor and high alcohol content.
from From Russian vodka, a diminutive of voda, meaning 'water' — literally 'little water.' Slavic languages have long called their spirits 'water,' a tradition with cousins across the region; the Polish wódka shares the same root. So the name affectionately shrinks 'water' down to a pet form: the small, fierce water that is anything but gentle.
- name origin
- means little water in Russian and Polish
- freezing point
- won't freeze in a standard home freezer
- raw material
- made from potatoes, grain, even grapes or milk
- purity goal
- distilled to taste like flavorless nothing on purpose
- cold war
- Smirnoff was actually a Russian brand sold to America
grey goose — french vodka brand from gascony, france, distilled since 1997
belvedere — polish vodka made from rye in żyrardów, poland since 1823
tito's handmade vodka — american vodka distillery founded in austin, texas in 1997 by tito beveridge