What is the cheapest decent vodka?

[thrasymachus]

If I was going to buy some vodka just for mixing with juice and stuff...ie to get drunk, not to taste good...what is the cheapest brand that won't give me a terrible hangover (most pure I guess?). I know when I get drunk on cheap liquor I feel horrible the next day, but with the good stuff I don't feel so bad. So, decent mid to low range vodka? (something I can let my friends mix with kool aid without having a heart attack about how much it cost).

[Jason Perlow]

Smirnoff. Don't touch Popov, its nasty.

Wolfschmidt isnt bad either, its like 13 bucks a fifth.

[beans]

Welcome to eG thrasymachus!

Hangovers are inevitable when any liquor is consumed to excess....

For near the same price as Smirnoff, consider Finlandia or Skyy. For a few bucks more (about $20 for 750ml) try Brilliant.

Cheers!

[thrasymachus]

Sure they are inevitable, but it seems from experience that the better the liquor, the less severe the hangover...

[=Mark]

One of the best reduced hangover vodkas I've found is produced by Poland Spring.

[PopsicleToze]

IMO, it Burnett's vodka. They guy who owns the wine store where I shop recommended it. He uses it for martinis while I just trust it for mixed drinks. It is triple-filtered, and at about $8/fifth, it's very economical.

[Ol' Dirty Chinaman]

Skyy is pretty good for the price, but if you want some damn good Vodka, its all about the Belvedere and Voxx.

[thrasymachus]

any other opinions on burnetts? $8 a fifth sounds like the price i want to pay for a mixing liquor.

[DrinkBoy]

any other opinions on burnetts? $8 a fifth sounds like the price i want to pay for a mixing liquor.

Personally, I can't recommend Burnetts at all. But each of us might have different opinions about that.

What I would recommend is this:

Buy a bottle of Burnetts. Make your drinks, when you are getting low (but not out!) pick up a bottle of something else, perhaps more expensive, perhaps less. Do a taste comparison between the two (blind, if possible). This will tell you which of the two you liked better.

Keep doing this each time you are running low, and eventually you will have arrived at what you think is the best value.

-Robert

www.DrinkBoy.com

[Rachel Perlow]

The hangover headache is caused by dehydration. Drink a big glass of water with 2 aspirins before going to bed to avoid it.

[trillium]

Whatever you do, please do not take Tylenol as a preventative measure before bed when you've been drinking. That's much to cruel to your liver to do on a regular basis, and you want to treat it kindly, so it will continue to treat you kindly. Amen to the lots of water part.

regards,

trillium

[deb@zydecos.net]

Rachael is right though! Two asprin with a big glass of water (leave the glass on your nightstand for midnight rehydration). I used this cure through my twenties. I fall asleep before I can get that drunk now.

[beans]

Sure it will cure the hangover situation, but what that does to your digestive organs and liver is frightening and serious. I've got an article on that somewhere I'd be happy to provide a link to should I locate it....

It's just plain bad, bad, bad! Do yourself the favour and drink plenty of water (hydration) and munch on a few complex carbos and that will help mitigate or "slow" downsome of the effects of a consumption of an excess of spirits. And don't even *think* of greasy foods. (it will slow down the absorption of alcohol, however providing a false sense of security leading to a possible additional consumption of more liquor only for it to "dump" all at once into your bloodstream hitting you harder with a hefty drunk and a slower perceived effect of impairment of the senses from the alcohol -- say like when driving home.... boo all the way around).

[NeroW]

My friend gave me a bottle of triple-distilled (maybe quadruple? can't remember) called Mad Monk.

It had a really cool scary picture of Rasputin inside the bottle.

She said it cost less than Absolut.

[GordonCooks]

If I was going to buy some vodka just for mixing with juice and stuff...ie to get drunk, not to taste good...what is the cheapest brand that won't give me a terrible hangover (most pure I guess?).  I know when I get drunk on cheap liquor I feel horrible the next day, but with the good stuff I don't feel so bad.  So, decent mid to low range vodka? (something I can let my friends mix with kool aid without having a heart attack about how much it cost).

Are we talking about Homecoming or the Xmas Formal?

[Cowboy From Hell]

LMAO!!! Xmas formal.....hehehe. I never did understand why anyone would want to get sloppy, sideways, p*ss, blind drunk anyway. Getting sick, not remembering what you did, saying REALLY STUPID THINGS that your friends NEVER>>>EVER forget and waking up wishing you were dead is in no way fun or cool. I totaly understand the money situation though. A safe rule to follow is "If it's under $10 for a fifth...it's PROBABLY not something you want to ingest in quantity.".....OR......"If it's about the price of gasoline ($1.85 a gallon), you probably don't want to ingest it in quantity."

Scott

Edited October 16, 2003 by Cowboy From Hell (log)