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In the middle of the unpleasantness that was my Mother’s Day, I took time out to conduct a science experiment.

Many moons ago, I heard (via George, via one of his co-workers, via a television show on the subject), that if you filter cheap vodka through a standard Brita filter pitcher many times, the cheap vodka is miraculously transformed into excellent, top-shelf vodka. On the television show that George’s co-worker watched, a vodka expert could not distinguish the Brita filtered cheap vodka from the highest of high end vodkas.

This has intrigued me for some time, so when I found a Brita filter pitcher at a thrift store, I snapped it up. Luckily, I happened to have a bottle of truly awful Skol vodka, purchased last year for Bloody Marys, and which has been languishing in the freezer ever since.

I filtered and refiltered the vodka ten times over the course of the day, and then George and I had a taste test. I didn’t have any premium vodka on hand, only a bottle of Skye, a mid-range vodka, so we had to use that as a bench mark. And, in the end, the nasty Skol was much, much better than the Skye.

I was thrilled! My experiment was a success!

Of course, I didn’t get any writing done yesterday. But we all have to make sacrifices in the name of science, right?

Posted 14 May 2007 at 07:46 AM