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rumdiary · Joined: 05 Jun 2006

This weekend a bunch of my friends had a vodka taste off based on the urban legend that if you pour cheap vodka through a Brita filter four or five times it tastes as good as Ketel One. I was surprised when the results showed that people liked filtered Popov almost as much as Ketel One. They went as far as to have a third test between regular Popov, filtered popov and Ketel one. Again the vote was about even, with no one voting for the straight Popov. Iwas surprised, because most crappy vodka is already charcoal filtered. I want to repeat this test with soju. I will personally foot the cost of the premium and crappy soju. Is there really premium soju? Will we be the first to make it? How drunk am I right now?

Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

I'd say you are on your way to strapping yourself onto a motorcycle to disprove the urban myth that Evil Knievel cleared his jumps because he had bottle rockets stuffed in his arse.

I would suggest not trying to jump the Han River.

stumptown · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:17 am Post subject:

Sounds interesting. It also raises a good question. Is there premium soju around? If anyone has any experience with it please share. I would be willing to try an experiment like that.

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

I don't know about now, but there was a version of Jinro Soju going around a year back - which was actually palatable. It had a golden frog on the label instead of the normal green one and rumor has it it comes out of Pusan.

I'm in Gangwon-do and the local brand San Soju out of Kangneung is the local tipple and the one I'm best acquainted with. It's swill and I saw a local restaraunteur use it as an all purpose cleaner recently. My Korean drinking buddies tell me that each region has their own brewery and their own verison of soju.

Andong Soju is double the strength at 40% and it's the only attempt at soju innovation I've heard of.

But, in all honesty, I hate soju and only spicy food and prior drunkedness will induce me to drink the stuff.

huffdaddy · Joined: 25 Nov 2005

Zyzyfer · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:15 am Post subject:

Andong soju is good in small quantities, but not the easiest thing to find. I think there are also some other fancy brands out there, but I've never bothered trying them out to see how well they went down.

seoulsucker · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject:

I have a friend back home who swears by this thing. It's called the "Gray Kangaroo", and is dubbed the "personal liquor filter", "Take the Stink Out of Your Drink", kind of thing.

I have yet to try cheap liquor filtered through this thing, but he says it not only makes the liquor taste better, but the removal of impurities/toxins also prevents nasty hangovers.