What is Vodka?
Answer:
Think of cocktails, and Bloody Mary and Screwdriver
immediately come to mind: both are vodka cocktails. Vodka in the West is a drink with almost no smell, taste, or color, but a high alcohol punch. It can easily slip into mixed drinks, making it the darling of bartenders.

But in my travels into Eastern Europe and Russia where vodkas were born, I have found beauties that have distinct flavors, smells, and colors from their base material: they aren’t as heavily filtered as in the West, nor made exclusively from grain. In Russian, vodka means “little water”, and is drunk straight.

Vodka is made from grains and is then mixed with water and heated which then turns the liquid into Wort.  You remove the Wort from the mixture and the left over liquid is used to ferment the Vodka.  Once fermented it needs to be filtered through charcoal and diluted to approximately 40% alcohol.
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