Blind taste and rank 10 vodkas- PUNISHMENT | How to Drink

lay down you're the next contestant on the vodka game today on how to drink I play the vodka game why and so the premise of the game is that the lovely people who helped me make this show went out and picked up ten bottles of vodka well nine bottles of vodka we'll get to number ten in a second and have arranged them in a row from a to J and I have to organize them from cheap to expensive so alright so this is cheap and that's expensive and I have to get eighty points each correctly placed vodkas worth ten points and it is worth one point less for each position away from its intended position it is that's very complicated verbally but we're gonna do some special graphics to make it very simple and there's some lovely people who are keeping track of the math back there this glass of pulpy looking nightmare fuel is the punishment drink which I must drink if I fail to acquire 80 points and I don't know what's in it each member of the crew has permitted to add one ounce of anything to it anything edible there's no bleach right I don't think there's any bleach so hopefully it won't actually kill me and so that is I really want to score 80 points because it's ruffs melon and pulpy I really can't even begin to imagine what that is in there better not be cat food a little bit different than the normal stuff we do on the show but you know it was fun is that recently I got to be a guest judge on a show called proof that was fun that's a lot of fun it's kind of a cocktail competition really cool stuff I hope you check it out and so based on that I thought why don't we do more game stuff here on how to drink so today of vodka game the vodkas that we have are 16100 a Wheatley vodka Tito's handmade vodka Ketel One Vodka Absolut Vodka Gary's good vodka 100 Gary's good vodka whatever all right I like it I like the branding that's great Gary's good vodkas Stoli hundred proof which I think all these are gonna be Haiti so that one might stand out we'll find out Grey Goose Laird's charcoal filter vodka which is a local favorite lovely layers around here also just got to point out this one is the one in the plastic that's how you know it's the good one and Everclear now the Everclear if I'm not mistaken has been cut 50% water so it should just be ethanol and local tap water down to about 80 proof so it should be pretty indistinguishable from vodka if I am correct okay so I'm gonna move this off frame here comes one of the murderous bastards who mixed it now you'll bring that back later they are also telling me that if I win they're all gonna drink it we'll see what happens when I win and if they want to follow through on that I don't know we've had a unanimous vote on that so it'll be the tyranny of the majority all right we'll start with a that is pure acetone that just smells like a doctor's office right away the multi very multi Multi Ness it gives away to a bit of that acetone nail polish remover thing [Music] Oh old man that is terrible oh there is differences in these that's amazing I mean and also even for clarity that one's kind of cloudy are we sure these glasses were clean because there's a completely different like this one has a blue hue to it I don't know if that's coming through on camera or not but I mean it looks almost like it's got quinine in it that's gotta be cheap I feel like this is not I feel like there's got to be methylate methylated outcalls in here that must be what that blueish hue is yeah it tastes like a wet fart alright we're gonna put this one over here we're gonna put that one in the cheapest spot for the moment a moves up above B oh yeah that's I mean just fight the I mean the fact that it's not clear is pretty wild I've never seen a vodka that's less than clear and that one is less than clear I'm tempted of course to now compare it to all these things behind me but I'm not gonna do that I guess I could identify it that way that one visually is not the same as the rest oh maybe that's the Everclear I wonder because maybe it's a suspension that's happening from the water being added to it okay it's similar to the other one I'm less malty and I feel like I got a feeling that the multi one is a some kind of crafty stuff I have a feeling from a marketing standpoint that's being referred to as being a plus right like that it's made from whiskey er ish grains it's a little less neutral this one is much more neutral has a lot of acetone and it's still this oh I'm gonna bump the a up above the C and the C remains above the B whoo here we go that's really sweet they had it sugar that to cover the acetone that comes in later he moves up he moves down I should say - I said solution I like hey I'm predicting that a is an expensive more expensive vodka so I'm predicting I don't know which one I like so much I think that actually seeing my tube in my face [Music] either I've shot out my mouth or not I mean that tastes like nothing absolutely pure neutral so it's possible that that's a very expensive out good put that above a hey you know what I just realized how about to swallow these dumb I will say this I am already surprised by how much barriers there is between these I would also say that with all but one exception this guy so far I would say that you could interchange all of these in cocktails so far and it would be subtle differences you'd have a hard time telling you mix any needs of cranberry juice or soda and I think that there are slight differences are gonna mostly disappear now this one does look like it has a slightly different color as well just like it yellowness maybe in here I mean my mute my mute and what I'm seeing I'm looking at the cuts in the glass and I'm seeing a slight different tonality in the way the light is coming through them it could be a glass defect I don't know I think I was gonna slight yellow tinge to it [Music] well I taste not so what's going on here this may have just become impossible okay no yeah guess where it goes there try to cleanse my palate of it here because like this is tough you know [Music] hmm [Music] well dad smells like something you would clean medical instruments with I mean do the other ones actually smell like that now that I've cleanse my palate no clothes oh my god oh I'm free oddly sweet a lot of acetate very neutral bad aftertaste all right number H number H very neutral odor I mean like you could almost commit some of those a glass of water out today multi sweet finish whoo I think that's probably expensive them that one I might not move yet hmm it's very flat it's very neutral it's mildly sweet extremely inoffensive no off flavors so I mean that could be is it a lot of its marketing you know some of this like the one that I kept moving up it's it's multi doesn't really not what you necessarily want from a vodka but in my head I'm like well they might be leaning on that they might be saying that that's desirable that makes it got more character something floating in this one it's either a dead bug or a piece of lint I'm gonna go give you the benefit of the doubt and say it's a piece of lint it's a few many one huh weirdly citrusy bright I mean I like this as a spirit I don't think it's bad it is a little few me and a little asset OD I mean this is Owen don't want this one it's not yet but it almost kind of feels like a bit like a gin it's gonna be tough hmm they charge more for that or not I don't know [ __ ] let's J say J how's it going J mr. J isn't mr. J that run away walking coach that's mr. J oh I'm sorry it's miss J you're right I knew it was one it was I thought of it well there's also dr. J I'm a lot of attitude very sweet and multi I don't know it's tough because on one hand vodka as a category is supposedly super neutral I don't know that I would say that's super neutral so I don't know where it goes in the ranking of cheap too expensive [Music] it's not be that's just garbage it's heavy it's tough because it feels like a completely different category of spirit I'm gonna put there I mean I know these are final I'm gonna have to go through a second time no no that piece of orange there stay hydrated yo I need these electric lights Oh for [ __ ] sake man all right cloudy number B that's got to be the chief oh that doesn't even take what is that if somebody's marketing be as expensive I would say they're objectively ripoff artists ooh see em I put G below the bakery with a weird funkiness listen it's a drink up what's better to have a mild wet dog or a mildly astringent I'm gonna light out a die for about an hour and then I'll come back with an answer it's tough to say whose idea was this episode was it my idea or your idea whichever of us the wizard or an [ __ ] I might have put this in a real wrong spot I guess I'm a question oh I like it I'm standing by that order that's my final answer [Music] but so let me add up your points ligand aside we're taking from there yeah what I do as of right now for dalla tracking you're exactly why I think that this is the Laird's it's ever clear okay no that's fine you can say that so that's the ever clear yeah that makes I mean I'm surprised by that to be honest it is also on the other hand I'm not surprised by it because it's the only one that's a completely different color than the rest so and I had even said that that might be the ever clear early on the only reason I was thinking it might not be the ever clear is because Everclear should be 95% ethanol so I mean only you know so little of it is in ethanol it's water really I don't know what happens there that must be the tap water or Everclear is not as pure ethanol as they say it is my body's moving around a lot now sort of involuntarily you've already told me this is ever clear let's put that in there so that's the Everclear and how much was that well we got here you're good vodka for a G what's I the hunter proof Stoli Hey absolutely the gutes J [Music] so Wheatley loud cuss at $6,100 so this one for price point should have been over here interesting was close details got a whole handle of stuff Wow alright so let's pull the screen up here okay so down there you can see the correct order that these should have gone in and you can see how on the money or off the money I was Tito is kind of a bargain hunt Wheatley's a bargain nice yeah so basically I ordered them as I thought they tasted by quality right so that's a subjective thing you can set the price point anywhere you want in the marketplace so Grey Goose which tastes like this it's all the way over here what is the Ketel One Ketel One Ketel One is where it belong absolute that's actually its slot so the absolute is I got that the Stoli or is that belong so that's over here well so the price point for the Stoli is up here but keep in mind this is the hunter proof Stoli we really should have had the 80 proof for this you're paying for that lat less water in the bottle is what I'm saying and by that market mentality this is a huge bar and then the wheatley is in third is that by price so where does weekly wind up oh wow so the weekly is all the way over so this Wheatley which tastes like a number three is priced all the way over here well that's very interesting all right I'm gonna put that the screen back right now yeah okay that makes things little easier you wanna bring out the poison who's gonna do it I think it's got to be Meredith the consequences of the game was that if I failed to accrue 80 points I would have to drink this apparently I scored exactly 80 points which is something of a I'm very happy about that something of a small miracle however that now means that Meredith must drink the punishment he hasn't her met Meredith before bring her out miss Meredith she helps me make the show I don't know if we can hear her she's not miked up little live one sec yeah one sec you should come Center I know why don't you tell everybody what's in there you want to tell everybody afterwards what were you trying to do to me Holly wine darling wine cocktail sauce Oh like from shrimp shrimp cocktails us we've got some cucumber bitters good scotch in there you bastard and banana liqueur from dividual it's almost a drink until you gather there that's a weird choice enjoy the gift that keeps on giving that calling-- wine isn't it today we played the vodka game a little bit of a different game a little bit of a different kind of an episode here full credit to I guess good mythical morning I don't know if good mythical morning has ever done this on their show but it certainly feels like a good mythical morning episode so kudos to use mr. Goodman fickle mornings I'd love to hang out with you all some time if we ever get around to it if not you know I'm just some low rent no no talent no hack whatever that's fine fine please how well I did I'm also really surprised with how much variation there is in these vodkas and also to find out which ones were really great deals and which ones are not so I guess I stand a little bit corrected assumptions about matka really I really actually thought that the Everclear mix with water was gonna be great but it turns out it's not oh well turns out I was mistaken about that at least I did well enough to get 80 points here I mean I thought that yeah whatever right because I didn't I didn't put the bottles in I put the cups my twitter is how to drink my Instagram is how to drink my patreon is patreon.com slash how to drink I have a Twitter account at twitch.tv slash bread from htd I hope you will check those things out I would love to tell you that I've got other episodes like this but actually no I don't have any other episodes like this I do have tasting episodes where I've tasted Oh a bunch of Irish whiskeys or I did like a demo on all the different kinds of not Irish whiskeys or I did a video all about the different types of gin that kind of all the different absents I could get my hands on those kinds of things if you're interested in this might be great and I think they're probably in the future if this does well we will always format those as a game because why not thank you guys so much for watching I hope you will check out some more of my episodes and enjoy the show toodles don't do this at home this was dumb

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Length: 19min 7sec (1147 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 02 2020

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[u/taz757]

That tastes like a wet fart.

[u/tripreed]

This was great, thoroughly enjoyed this.