Home Distiller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZs29am4msg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Anyone tried it?

The guy has to be on something

That was super funny... I don't buy a word of it. I'm happy making vodka in a VM with cuts that no large distiller can replicate cost effectively. Then I store it in anything glass and I bet it's comparable. I loved the distillers accent, totally newfie and very Canuck.

I'm betting it was real vodka in the glass Dan drank, he's a well known drunk.

WHHHEWWWEEEEE...That's some awful stuff. I had a tasted of a couple of weeks back and man, is it rough. I went to a bar while on vacation/work trip. Me and my bud sat down and couldn't figure out what we wanted to drink until the crystal skull caught our eye. Being a drinker of fine vodkas and very particular about them, I asked if it was good....you know it ain't good when the bartender selling it says it's bad! She even poured a free sample for my friend and myself....mercy was she right! (You know you're getting suckered in if the bartender is giving you free samples!!) Needless to say we moved on. My friend tried to bargain with her to get her to pour out the bad vodka and let us take the skull bottle home....no luck there though...

Recommendation for crystal skull: move on and take it off the top shelf!

OMP

I'm thinking about buying a few just to use as bottles of my own. I know the vodka's gonna suck, but I suppose I can get shitty on it one way or another, and then I have a couple of cool bottles.

Maybe I can pick up empties on ebay.

Just checked... they want MONEY for those things.

Tried the link and all I got was

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saw this when on vacation for 49.00$, almost bought it cause the bottle was cool but my wife didnt think it was that cool.

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What the hell? Must have been a good one...... too good.

What, they had to make the most eye catching bottle to sell their swill?? You werent kidding, check this out.
http://cgi.ebay.com/CRYSTAL-HEAD-VODKA- ... 5d2a431321" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Na just find it on you tube.

There are a few.

Can you say Marketing?

Bottles look tough though

is it a video of dan akroyd babbaling on about ghosts and crystal heads, spirirts and shit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKqjIv91Zx8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
I would like to taste it, not buy it though.

Mule thats the video I saw which had no reliavence to vodka so i stopped looking

GreyGambler wrote:Mule thats the video I saw which had no reliavence to vodka so i stopped looking

He does get a bit long winded. Tested me too but I made it to the end.

shit now I have to watch it again

ok watch the hole thing 4x and diamonds, well it has to be good! maybe I need to be a shit load of diamonds to help mine out, 'm sure that the secret im looking for

GreyGambler wrote:Mule thats the video I saw which had no reliavence to vodka so i stopped looking

I figured a ghost was gonna pop out the bottle when he opened it. He kinda scared me..

GreyGambler wrote:ok watch the hole thing 4x and diamonds, well it has to be good! maybe I need to be a shit load of diamonds to help mine out, 'm sure that the secret im looking for

Just started chippin the old lady's weddin ring apart. Told her I had to filter my booze.....She hit me, and took her ring back.

yep the bottles are pretty cool lookin,none here on trademe in NZ.dammit my brother just came back from the states last week.Does anyone know if they sell it in OZ???hes off there in a few weeks,works for an airline.Wouldnt mind if he picked me up a bottle.

I've never tried any, but my feeling is that it is something you buy for the bottle, not the vodka. Diamonds in the vodka???? You gotta hand it to the marketing guys.
myerfire

They say you need a "story" to sell. Well, the skulls have a history of forgery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Kudos for the next distillery using gold equipment instead of copper.
EDIT: More lulz :
http://www.crystalskulls.com/tibet-crystal-skull.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

I was given a bottle, I didnt think much of it

Did a HD google search for "skull vodka" on a whim. Tried some at my sisters, 2 weekends ago. Didn't know it's background...but thought it was great, incredibly smooth and better than my Grey Goose test bottle.

I still can't get my vodka to have that smoothness....I wonder if it just needs some aging? I feel I make pretty conservative cuts and pull at 92-93%

Or.....comparing my impression to those listed above, I have poor tastebuds

Just playing Devils Advocate here; checked out several respected vodka/whiskey review forums and they all pretty much raved about it. I know, to each his own, but maybe we shouldn't prejudge the vodka because of the bullshit bottle and silly hype about filtering through Herkimer diamonds (very possibly the silliest hype I've ever read) and the crystal skull mythology. It may be good vodka in spite of these things.
Having said that, it would have to be spectacular for me to pay $50.00 for a 750ml bottle.

BG

I was gifted one for my birthday this year. I poured it into an empty liquor bottle and filled the skull with mead for a friend who collects crystal skulls. I had a shot during transistion, it's not bad. I was drinking mead at the time so I probably didn't get a real good read of it's specific flavor but I'd still rather drink my own then pay that kind of price for a cool ass bottle...the bottle is as cool a bottle as I've ever seen but it is not cheap.