How to Improve Cheap Vodka with a Water Filter

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Vodka should be nothing but water and alcohol. Due to impurities, bargain brands can have an off taste. If you'd like to experience premium vodka at budget prices, try filtering cheap vodka with a carbon filter water pitcher.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Carbon filter water pitcher
Cheap vodka

Step 1

Buy a bottle of cheap vodka. Look on the bottom shelf. Perhaps it will be in a plastic jug with a little known brand name.
Step 2

Empty the water from your carbon filter water pitcher. You might want to put in a new filter if you haven't changed it for a while.
Step 3

Pour the vodka in the pitcher and let it pass through the filter. After the first pass, filter it again. Do this at least 5 times.
Step 4

Sniff and taste the vodka. It should be almost tasteless. If it still smells like gasoline, plastic or industrial waste, filter it some more.
Step 5

Drink up when you're satisfied the filter has done its job.

Tips & Warnings

It's helpful to have a second filtered pitcher to pour the filtered vodka into so you can then pour it back and forth between pitchers.

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LegalMinx said

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on 7/18/2008 I was going to try this, but was just advised NOT TO TRY THIS by a chemist, who said that "It isn't safe to filter vodka/spirits through a Brita filter .... [b/c] they are made of plastic and spirits will leach out toxic chemicals from the plastic that are inert when it filters water. Also there is more in the filters than activated charcoal and these resins and other substances also leach into the spirits. So while the vodka may taste smoother, it actually will now have more toxins in it."

Check out the convo here: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/474541 so at least you know whether YOU wanna try it. :-)

Good luck!