Full Review

Sugar House

Sugar House
Vodka

Category: Unflavored Vodka

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 41%
87 Points
Silver Medal
Highly Recommended
$19

Sugar House
Vodka

Category: Unflavored Vodka

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 41%
Clear color. Funky aromas and flavors of funky bananas, cherimoya, dried mango, and dill weed with a glycerous, soft, dry light-to-medium body and a warming, refreshing, breezy finish with notes of shochu, rye bread stuffing, and bamboo shoots. A super interesting, umami-forward vodka that will excel in savory and adventurous cocktails.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Odd
Aroma Aroma: funky bananas, cherimoya, dried mango, and dill weed
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with notes of shochu, rye bread stuffing, and bamboo shoots
Smoothness Smoothness: Warming
Enjoy Enjoy: in cocktails
Cocktail Cocktails: Baybreeze, Moscow Mule, Vodka Martini
Bottom Line Bottom Line: A super interesting, umami-forward vodka that will excel in savory and adventurous cocktails.

The Producer

Sugar House Distillery

The Producer
2212 S. West Temple
Unit #14
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
USA
1 801-726-0403

Their Portfolio

87 Sugar House Vodka 41% (USA) $19.00.

Unflavored Vodka

Spirits Glass Shot Clear.jpg
Serve in a Shot Glass
Unflavored vodka is defined in the US as a "neutral" spirit devoid of color, aroma, and taste, however, the finest unflavored vodkas are served neat and do have a subtle taste, sometimes of the base grain or ingredient, citrus or even anise. But most vodkas are used for cocktails, often mixed with fruit juice (cranberry juice for Cosmopolitans or orange juice for Screwdrivers.), tonic, or soda for the ubiquitous bar-hopper favorite Vodka & Soda. To which craft bartenders these days like to say, "vodka pays the bills."

Unflavored vodka is made by fermenting and then distilling the simple sugars from a mash of pale grain or vegetal matter. Vodka is produced from grain, potatoes, molasses, beets, and a variety of other plants. Rye and wheat are the classic grains for Vodka, with most of the best Russian Vodkas being made from wheat while in Poland they are mostly made from a rye mash. Swedish and Baltic distillers are partial to wheat mashes. Potatoes are looked down on by Russian distillers, but are held in high esteem by some of their Polish counterparts. Molasses, a sticky, sweet residue from sugar production, is widely used for inexpensive, mass-produced brands of Vodka. American distillers use the full range of base ingredients, but most are made from the abundant supply of corn from the US heartland.