KP Potato Vodka?

[abu applesauce]

Any decent recommendations?

[KosherChef]

This is a snippet from KosherToday

"Alef" a New Premium Vodka is Also Kosher for Passover
New York…by Zechariah Mehler…Vodka on Passover? This year Alef, a new vodka made from grapes rather than from grain, will be available for the holiday, thanks to Avi Petrov of LeChaim Enterprises.

If anyone sees it or tries it let me know.

[njkosher]

If you keep it in the freezer, it is better. Also, try adding a hot peper to it, gives it a different perspective

[berel]

just changing the subject for a moment, someone once gave me pepper cookies to eat with my out-of-the-freezer vodka (it's the only way they drink vodka in these parts). those cookies went unbelievably well with the vodka,but I could never find the recipe for the cookies.

[njkosher]

Buy a jar of hot peppers, put a couple in the glass, and pour the frozen vodka over it. Then make sure you squeeze the peppers to get the juice.
Drink and eat. Only way on Pesach

[abu applesauce]

I grew up with my friend's dad sticking ground horseradish in the vodka on passover. I always assumed it was potato vodka, but based on this board, I guess it was grape. It tasted like horseradish flavored rubbing alcohol, which isn't such a bad thing...

[ferret]

Growing up I always wondered why Vodka, being potato-based, was even considered problematic. But as is true with nearly everything requiring Pesach certification there's always an interim step or two that throws a wrench in the works.

[craigcep]

Most vodka nowadays are grain-based.

[ferret]

My comment was that 30 years ago while pondering the rules pertaining to what makes something appropriate for Passover use or not, vodka seemed to be exempt from the usual pitfalls of grain-based or not. But even with a potato vodka the issue was not as straightforward as I believed it to be.

I understand that most liquor today is grain-based and heads off to finishing steps to become either gin, vodka, whiskey or whatever after the initial distillation process. That really wasn't the point here.

[ferret]

All the Pesach vodkas are made from grapes or sugar cane (as I said above, I don't ever recall seeing a Pesach potato vodka - most likely because all potato vodka still uses grain-derived amylase to effect fermentation). As for "premium", there's no real standard for that.

[brooklynkoshereater]

Echoing Vallevin's comment - it's only eight days - I would rather go dry than try the vodka again. I do have a KP tequila, though -

[vallevin]

BKE.......I must have the name of the tequila. My sister won't consume anything processed except for the wine and vodka.

[GilaB]

Casa Vieja Tequila has the website passovertequila.com, so proud are they of their OU-P certification. Agave 99 is also kosher, although I'm not sure who provides the certification. I haven't tried either one and can't testify as to taste/quality.

[vallevin]

Can't give you decent, I had something two years ago and it transcended nasty ...it was liquid evil.

[craigcep]

Yes there is. I think Kedem makes one.

[ferret]

Kedem's vodka is made from sugar cane, unless they have some other product that I've never seen.

[ferret]

I only know of the grape/raisin variety. Can't recall if there was ever a potato vodka for Pesach (due to processing issues).