Vodka has a interesting past history before it became the main ingredient in the many popular vodka drink recipes of today. Way back in the vague early days of its creation, vodka was actually used in Poland as aftershave. Yep, they laced vodka with chamomile flowers to give it a nice smell and then splashed it on their faces after a hot blade. Ouch.
The Russians referred to vodka as water in the early 16th century. This laid the ground work for the vast consumption of the alcohol through the years.
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As popular as vodka is today (more vodka is consumed in America each year than any other alcohol or spirit), it didn’t start rolling as a popular base alcohol until the 20th century.
Now vodka’s come in hundreds of varieties of origins, brands, colors and flavors. Luckily we’re bartenders, not distillation chemists…we don’t have to worry about too much more about vodka other than you’re going to pour it. A lot.
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These are the most common Vodka Drink Recipes you need to be familiar with below; click on a cocktail’s link to watch it’s video lesson:
Drivers etr. The Sex on the Beach can be recognized as the Unicorn of the cocktail world. We think it exists, but no one has actually ever seen it, at least not since 1985. This past summer the New Orleans mixologist-con “Tales of the Cocktail” actually got together to literally bury and put the poor cocktail to rest.
However, challenger-vodka-brand Wódkais taking an opposing view. Wódka has resurrected the Sex on the Beach with a public shrine in the form of a Times Square billboard heralding the disparaged cocktail.
The brand has also revived two other iconic cocktail for the era, the Greyhound and the Black Russian, also now seen looming above major cityscapes. Enjoy unironically!
Sex on the Beach
This is a slightly revisionist view of the cocktail, removing some of the cloying elements like Peach Schnapps and orange juice in favor of fresher ingredients like grapefruit and peach nectar.
2 oz. Wódka vodka
2 oz. Peach nectar
Drivers hidalgo port devices. 1 oz. grapefruit juice
1 oz. cranberry juice
Combine all ingredients into a shaker with a lot of ice. Shake and strain into a highball glass. Garnish with a thin, flat slice of grapefruit as a topper.
Black Russian
Popularized by Greta Garbo in the 1930s movie Ninotchka, the Black Russian registers as digestif with a similar taste to Italian amari. Simple and elegant.
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1 ½ oz Wódka
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¾ oz coffee liqueur
Build Wódka and roughly half as much coffee liqueur over a rocks glass over ice.
Greyhound
Just plain cool. Cocktail junkies equate this to “spiked juice;” urban legend traces its origin back to the American Bar in London in the 1930’s.
2 oz. Wódka
4 oz. Grapefruit juice
Combine vodka, grapefruite juice and ice in a collins glass. Stir well.
You can also salt the rim to create a “Salty Dog” and easily add another option to your personal drink menu.
About Wódka
Panache Imports recently launched a new, yet old name in vodka: Wódka, which draws its Cold War look from the no-frills vodka of Poland that has been produced at Polmos Bialystock distillery in Eastern Poland for generations.
A relic from Poland’s communist era: the original 1920s bottle bore a slightly tattered label that simply read “Wódka,” the Polish word for ” vodka.”
Wódka is a crystalline, triple-filtered, Lux-grade spirit that displays subtle flavors of rye with a touch of minerality. It adds a unique twist to martinis and other vodka cocktails by complementing the added ingredients instead of masking them, or vice versa.
The pricing is a throwback as well: $8.99 for a 750 ml, half the price of lesser-grade name-brands.