Beer

My favorite brand of beer: The one in my hand...

SRSLY, tho... I only buy MGD these days.

I prefer some cheeep vodka & expensive OJ, to be honest.

Originally Posted by auminer

My favorite brand of beer: The one in my hand...

SRSLY, tho... I only buy MGD these days.

I prefer some cheeep vodka & expensive OJ, to be honest.

some cheaper vodkas contains glycol... that's right antifreeze. come on over and we'll get the goose out for ya

Originally Posted by NHscrapman

some cheaper vodkas contains glycol... that's right antifreeze. come on over and we'll get the goose out for ya

Just not true, man... glycERol, maybe. I blame Dan Akroyd for this urban legend.

But never let it be said that I'd turn down a more premium brand if someone else was buyin'

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Listen to Dan Aykroyd say it in his own way:





It struck me that something was wrong. He didn’t mean glycol. All the Crystal Head Vodka literature I could find mentioned glycol. If you say something often enough, does it make it true? They almost certainly meant “glycerol”. Add an “ER” to glycol and you no longer have engine coolant, but rather glycerol, another name for glycerin, a viscous liquid that is on the GRAS list[3] (Generally Recognized As Safe) and safe to consume. In fact, athletes might recognize glycerol as the nutritional supplement that made headlines a few years ago as a supplement to “hyper-hydrate” the body by storing extra water in cells. It caused stomach distress to athletes who took high dosages, but it is safe. And it is not aircraft coolant.

So what, then, is glycerol used for in some brands of vodka? It’s an “oily” ingredient that can be added in small amounts to give vodka a particular “mouth feel” as well as a slightly sweet taste[4]. Don’t fret. There’s no engine coolant in any vodka. There never has been and there never will be. I’m surprised the vodka industry has not cried foul yet. And by the way, there’s no trans fat in vodka either, no cholesterol, nor for that matter transmission fluid, motor oil, gasoline, fracked crude, DDT, mercury, polonium or that gooey black stuff from the aliens in Prometheus. Although associating any of those with other brands would surely be as effective a scare tactic as saying they contain engine coolant. In case you were worried.