Bumbo - Tiki Drinks and Food

TZ Tiki Zen Member Too far from the beach Bowling Green, KY Joined: Mar 15, 2007 Posts: 353	TZ Tiki Zen Posted posted on Mon, Oct 29, 2007 8:28 AM Regarding Scottes comment about running low quality rum through a filter, they did this with vodka on an episode of Myth Busters. They lined up several top-shelf vodka samples along with samples of cheap vodka that had been run through a Brita filter various numbers of time, and had a professional taster do a blind test. He was able to line then up in order, with the top shelf samples coming in first, and the filtered samples according to the number of times it had been filtered (I think some samples were run through up to four times). The conclusion - you can improve cheap vodka, but you can't make it top shelf. Plus, when you figure the cost of the filters, it is more economical to buy the top shelf.

Regarding Scottes comment about running low quality rum through a filter, they did this with vodka on an episode of Myth Busters. They lined up several top-shelf vodka samples along with samples of cheap vodka that had been run through a Brita filter various numbers of time, and had a professional taster do a blind test. He was able to line then up in order, with the top shelf samples coming in first, and the filtered samples according to the number of times it had been filtered (I think some samples were run through up to four times).

The conclusion - you can improve cheap vodka, but you can't make it top shelf. Plus, when you figure the cost of the filters, it is more economical to buy the top shelf.

Post #340987 by Tiki Zen on Mon, Oct 29, 2007 8:28 AM