This smells like cucumber, but it has a fuller scent than Eight Degrees does, more like an actual cucumber has been cut open on a cutting board. The palate is indeed much more suggestive of that as well. There's still some flaws, but this time it's fighting with pepperiness and earthiness rather than lemon lime soda, so this is much more successful! This is far better than the Right Degrees Cucumber Vodka. I still have no idea what anyone would do with this, but it does fairly legitimately taste like vodka mixed with cucumber. Nice work, though I still don't like it. There's no way I'm giving this a 12. It tastes more like an 8 to a 10. The novelty unfortunately just doesn't justify its existence and the vodka does even bring in a little bit of citrus with the pepper, which wouldn't normally be a problem, but does give me awful flashbacks to other flavored vodkas. I'll give this a 10 for now. Unlike Eight Degrees, this works pretty well with a bunch of water added. It's like refreshing cucumber water but with a bit of a peppery kick a d some alcohol. I can't say that I ever want to have alcohol I can't detect in a drink because why suffer the health ramifications without getting to enjoy the nuance. That said, for someone looking to have a refreshing glass of something and also get a little tipsy, this is a test choice. I don't think I can adjust my rating based on this revelation since I have no basis for comparison, but I'd I were to adjust it, it would only go up. This is clearly the cucumber vodka to get (if you for some reason want cucumber vodka - might I suggest a nice bourbon, rum, scotch, or ice pick in the eye instead?).
About this bottle
A Minnesota operation, Prairie spirits buys corn from local farmers to use as the base in all of their spirits. The corn is grown organically and the farmers employ traditional methods to take of invasive weeds such as controlled brush fires as opposed to modern pesticides. The left over grains are used as animal feed for neighboring livestock. With the cucumber infusion natural cucumber flavors are added at the end of distillation.
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Rating: 9/23 It has a fair amount of cucumber freshness and sweetness to it, which is weird but at least somewhat convincing. The alcohol flavor really does come through though. It has a fair amount of peppery harshness too. It's not terrible, but its purpose isn't very clear either, so I'm not sure why anyone would want it.
It's clean, it's crisp, there's alcohol, there's cucumber, there's some pepper, there's something just the faintest tad off. I don't enjoy it and I don't know why anyone would want it, but here it is. It's not repulsive, but it's certainly not enjoyable. I'm dropping its rating slightly.
A crisp. flavored corn vodka from Minnesota, distilled with organic corn & garden-fresh cucumbers that has fresh death with a touch of sea spray. July 2017
Pure cucumber flavor. Will be really interesting to mix this. It smells a bit odd tho.
delicious with fresh lime juice and crushed ice
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