Cheapest Vodka?

Thargor

Hi, what's the cheapest drinkable vodka for cocktails etc these days? I used to buy the red labelled bottle in Aldi for visitors but the last couple I've bought have tasted like moonshine or poitin, very rough, anything decent anywhere else?

L1011

Most very cheap vodkas are molasses based rather than grain and can taste different, albeit fine to most people.

I use the second cheapest Tesco own-brand for cocktails while only using Stoly or Absolut for "normal" use; never had a problem with it. Comes in a red labeled bottle that's trying to look a tiny bit like Smirnoff. It is not the Tesco Value product at all.

rubadub

L1011 wrote: »

Most very cheap vodkas are molasses based rather than grain and can taste different, albeit fine to most people.

Or best to the experts. Glens below is molasses based

Ian Wisniewski, one of Britain's leading spirits experts, and Tom Innes, the former editor of bar and lifestyle magazine, Theme

VODKA TEST
After tasting the following vodkas blind with spirits experts Ian Wisniewski and Tom Innes, here are the winners and the losers. All the vodkas are widely available.
1st: Glen's (£8.69)
2nd: Russian Standard (£13.29)
3rd: Absolut (£14.99)
4th: Wyborowa (£15.99)
5th: Finlandia (£14.19)
Joint 6th: Smirnoff Red (£12.19);
Stolichnaya (£14.99);
Belvedere (£30)
9th: Grey Goose (£30.79)
10th: Smirnoff Black (£15.99)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/wine/5770943/10-vodkas-put-to-the-test.html

Tescos cheapest is molasses based.

L1011

rubadub wrote: »

Or best to the experts. Glens below is molasses based

Oh I know some people like or even prefer the taste of it - that's why I said "different" rather than bad. Personally I don't mind either.