[benfranklin]

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lets have a grey goose v. belvedere discussion.

i vote belvedere [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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Everytime I hear people discuss "premium vodka" I am reminded of the following.

In a previous life, I was on a business trip to Peoria, IL. My local contact was giving me a scenic route tour on the way to a meeting. We were driving along the Illinois River and passed a large industrial complex owned by ADM, one of the largest agri-business conglomerates in the world. This guy knew the guy who ran the plant. One of the main things they did there was bring in barge loads of grain and make it into grain alcohol.

The grain alcohol was then loaded into tanker barges, shipped down the Illinois and then the Mississippi, and loaded on a tanker ship. From there it went to Russia, where it was made into Stoli. So much for the mystique of hand-crafted imported booze.