Why It Takes 7 Pounds of Potatoes to Make the Perfect Bottle of Vodka - Vendors

[@zelandiart]

I like the CEO, very well spoken. Definitely a sales guy

[@HKim0072]

He's extremely smooth.

[@5674657]

@@HKim0072 Like his vodka? haha

[@stevendevilliers471]

He's pissed

[@wrobelda]

If you look him up, he was actually a person behind elevating the status of Polish vodkas into a luxury spirits level in the US market and this success story is apparently discussed in marketing scholar books.

[@ifishforfoodnottrophys7483]

Yeah ceo = salesman

[@theodorefredrick7058]

really love the Vendors series. the CEO absolutely has a great sense of humor lol

[@eater]

Thanks for watching!

[@garrymcgaw4745]

I love the humbleness of the CEO, what a quaint little village. Thank you for sharing. Cheers from Australia.

[@kasiamisiek9562]

I appreciate Chopin's music being played in the background

[@justinn8410]

Its public domain

[@dankification]

As a fellow polish person, I commemorate eater for making a video in Poland

[@debauchery715]

commemorEater ;)

[@FarmGearInnovators]

Sustainable production, deep family roots, and a nod to Polish heritage - love how Chopin vodka preserves tradition while caring for the land. Truly a drink with a story! 🌱🇵🇱

[@freethis222]

I love the way everything appears simple, but when you look behind it, you see perfection. It's not just planting and harvesting potatoes, it's done to perfection. The production of the vodka, while a simple concept, every part of it is done to the highest standard. The bottle is simple, yet extremely elegant, and holds a product of very high quality.

[@davidpaylor5666]

Nice process, very direct. Shows real respect for the ingredient, letting it speak for itself in the product.

[@stopthebus]

Sometimes people talk about things that are made with love. Here is such a product. It is obvious that the family and the people who work here are very passionate and dedicated to it. Seeing the labels over the caps being pressed into place by hand tells me that they care about what they are doing. It's a nice touch.

[@phill.2924]

@@stopthebus I agree. The man's life and business are an open book, and they so much want the customer to have a good product.

[@TheChefmike66]

I love this channel, and I loved this episode. Thanks.

[@eater]

Thanks for watching!

[@pjithmanyu]

This episode will touch one million views.

[@Юлиус-п6ц]

I love the CEO. He makes me want to try the vodka. LOL!

[@jimmurphy6095]

4:59 It's a fracking tower. Same setup used to fraction off petroleum products. Very cool.

[@Sakja]

Great job, tasting and creating new flavors. I want that job.

[@PrEdAtOr2k]

Awesome video which made me learn a lot about Vodka surprisingly. I always love seeing deeper dives like this and "How it's made"

[@markmazzella5222]

One of the best vodkas out there

[@pikus4392]

its ok, i know better :) hard to buy though

[@nandinhocunha440]

Potatoes. Earth greatest root vegetable

[@ChristianJG]

Thank you to the Incas Empire for cultivating tubercule plant hundred of years ago in Peru, South America

[@ooo_Kim_Chi_ooo]

Chopin and Aragy Kyrgyz are my absolute favorite vodkas.

[@topherchung8910]

Thank you to the introduction to your vodka. I will be seeking out a bottle very soon!

[@johnt7776]

Thank for doing this. Going to buy some Chopin vodka. From Canada.

[@WeLuv9x5]

Chopin on the rocks, with a lemon twist, is one of the most sophisticated sipping options available on the planet!

[@itmeryy]

This is a fascinating video, and Chopin is a great vodka. And the CEO just seems like a cool guy.

[@Neosoul_prima]

Literally my favorite vodka, and I can't stand it as a spirit normally. Chopin is definitely that gurl!!!

[@tools2use975]

This is beautiful work

[@yesname4889]

Very rare to see a well spoken CEO. Bravo!!! 7 min 48 sec. I think many will love to have that job, heeeeeewaaazzzuppp! haha

[@Bulldawg44]

Chopin is top shelf 💯 super smooth

[@andersjjensen]

People who say all vodka tastes the same has clearly never had neither bad nor good vodka. The run-off-the-mill stuff tastes pretty much the same, but the bad stuff has a nasty nail polish remover hint to it and if feels jagged on the tongue. The really good stuff (like up-class Polish and Finnish stuff) feels like satin in the mouth and goes down (dangerously) easy.

[@AhTechus]

The video is very professional and easy to understand

[@eater]

Thanks for watching!

[@kevinharming]

I have never tried your vodka but I would sure like to now. Good video

[@smokeebeefpv]

Great, now I want to get a bottle. 😮

[@biot_travel]

great ending to - nice finishing touch

[@nathankaminski3384]

Potatoes are a staple in my diet, at least twice a week in the vodka!

[@svimonoff]

As far as Vodka goes, Chopin is the GOAT! Has been my favorite for over two decades. Pro tip - always keep a bottle in the freezer.

[@JBSbass]

is that a potato brew? Ive moved away from all the expensive vodkas like Greygoose and Belvedere coz I seen that they make their mash of the chepeast rice and grains on the market. I found a Polish hand batch called Vestal. All made from tubulars like potato's from under the ground so no chemical sprays are on the flseh. Smoothest Vodka Ive had and I can smash a 3/4 bottle and never get a headache or feel like crap from it the next day. some thing to consider........or not give a toss......wither way good luck@

[@andersjjensen]

@@JBSbass Just watch the video man. They show nothing but potatoes....

[@danwallach8826]

Chopin Potato Vodka is my favorite distilled spirit.

[@patrik4656]

That’s is my favourite Vodka 😎 delicious and nutritious

[@sloanmagnum5009]

I personally dont drink alcohol. But when I did on occasion in the distant past, I preferred Vodka or Rum. I tried quite a few varieties of Vodka from bottom shelf to top shelf, potato to grain. Cheap vodka was hit or miss, usually miss but very strong with a usually terrible finish and possible headache. Pricier Vodka didn't really taste much different, but it was filtered more and much smoother and the finish was relaxing and inviting a felt good. Vodka is one of simplist alcahols to make, hard to screw up. A good filtered smooth vodka will hit you just right and is manageable. But if I wanted to party hard, Rum was my go to.

[@andersjjensen]

Strictly speaking it is easier to screw up a vodka than a rum or whiskey distillation. Aging on oak turns a lot of nasty byproducts into delicious esters, which is why all good rums and whiskeys are barral aged. If you don't get your distilling cuts perfect with a vodka it will taste like nail polish remover, wet cardboard or both.

[@dr.feelgood2358]

it's distilled to 95% ABV, and then watered down. that's as neutral as you can get on flavored liquor. that's why the major marketing point is how many times it's distilled (which is really just how many plates it passes in a layered column still)

[@phylipwuleetsch5936]

Weird that the title tries to catch views with the seemingly high quantity made, but the CEO even emphesizes himself that the rather low quantity is a testament to the quality. "How real traditional Potato Vodka is made in Poland"

[@griffinmckenzie7203]

Weird that you claim the title is saying a thing about the quantity of vodka when it very clearly isn't.

[@phylipwuleetsch5936]

@griffinmckenzie7203 they changed it after the comment

[@griffinmckenzie7203]

@@phylipwuleetsch5936 Funny. I thought about that possibility and even used a third party website to go back to the cached page from when they released it. It hasn't changed...

[@phill.2924]

Are you listening, Grey Goose?? You cannot distill a spirit more than once!

[@jaycareaga9929]

Not true even in a column still it’s run through several plates that mimic multiple distillations. Single malt scotch is run through two separate stills which is a double distillation.

[@spg12Three]

Really nice team and product. This is on the shelfs near me in the US and I want to give this a try

[@blaketaylor3906]

In the US we store potatoes for up to a year. There’s farms that are just recently shipping out the last of the potatoes from last years harvest as they are pulling this years harvest out of the ground.

[@SheeraAlaine]

In Poland too :) I think the mister there was saying about longer period - vodka is almost non-spoilable :D

[@Scypher0th]

we harvest potatoes every summer and store them in our cellar all year round....feeds us through winter

[@TheChefmike66]

As a professional chef, I must say that older potatoes do not perform the same as newer potatoes. They are not bad, but you have to handle them differently.

[@franktechmaniac7488]

@@TheChefmike66I guess this will be even more different with steamed, mashed, fermented and distilled potatoes.

[@TheGrace020]

Vodka was invented in Poland never forget it! The real stuff is the best stuff 💪

[@Politebanana1]

I live russian vodka. Its the best! Never forget

[@TrungtamDulieuQuocgia]

@@Politebanana1 Agreed.

[@TheGrace020]

@@Politebanana1 literally the worse copy... well thankfully that place wont exist much longer 😻

[@getinghoff]

@@TheGrace020 Kind of like Poland didn't exist when it was dominated by the Russians.

[@TheCheat_1337]

Vodka was not invented, it was discovered. it's just a name for a distilled spirit. Distillation of alcohol was independently discovered all over the world and in the Slavic countries you might happen to call it vodka, but the chemical process is exactly the same for grain alcohol of all types. If you want to say Polish vodka is the best, I actually agree based on my experience, but it's not really something you can invent. Chinese and Korean netizens had a fight online a few years ago about how kimchi was actually invented in China, well no because fermentation was not invented by humans, it's a natural process and most cultures in the world have some form of fermented vegetable like sauerkraut or kimchi or pao cai.

[@adrianespinoza1561]

Im. Buying some tomorrow...try it out😮😢

[@SunFrame]

Very interesting video, in a world of awful private equity it is great to see a well run decent company and production process.

[@danielhan4537]

Potato 🥔!

[@JBSmoke1]

Great video! It's excellent vodka.

[@kika-ge5qr]

The potato is from Peru and there are 4,000 different kinds. I love potatoes and drank only vodka drinks when I drank alcohol. Great family. Thank you.

[@Mr.Hooter702]

It's the Europeans who cultivated the mass majority of potatoes.

[@kika-ge5qr]

@@Mr.Hooter702 The Incas of Peru.

[@williamelewis464]

It’s from West Africa but what ever

[@kika-ge5qr]

@@williamelewis464 Prove it.

[@luisgordillo1695]

Not a Huge fan Of Vodka. But this is absolutely awesome ! They're Complaisant about who they are. 🤘🤘

[@narragopichand3166]

Well presented

[@CodyTorres-s5c]

I love the ending. I was trying to get use guys to drink vodka and then everyone laughs

[@Stefano10ace-e9l]

Gave up booze in 1985! BUT this makes me want to take up Vodka again. LOL ~ NAUGHT!

[@bessmertni]

Good Polish potato vodka. I must have a bottle. I wonder how it will stack up against Idaho potato vodka?

[@lawnguy905]

Brilliant

[@robertkertoikromo8643]

looking good... all clean using rvs metal

[@rogerandlyndabeall3840]

CEO speaks so beautifully

[@tommcmanus3091]

For people sensitive to grain alcohol this is the great alternative. Simply an outstanding vodka.

[@sateeshsatheesh5832]

Nice super information .. I want to do job on vodka I want to know the proceess and which degree they accepted and i am from India???

[@Tonyhouse1168]

Chopin is delicious and a personal favorite. Unfortunately, the little island I live on in the US doesn’t know that liquor can be ruined by heat and light, and half the bottles I’ve opened out here have gone rancid :/

[@Mr.Hooter702]

What island

[@alkaliaurange]

@@Mr.Hooter702 I would laugh out loud if he meant NYC

[@ole4143]

Of course the first guy talking is called Marek

[@ottopartz1]

I'm always wondered how or if they separate the hearts of the alcohol from the heads and tails? To my taste buds, the majority of manufacturers just let it all run together as small batch run product tastes so much better and cleaner.

[@wernerhaase2632]

Das wusste ich nicht dass die würtze die katoffel ist!!😊

[@政徹武]

Yes, Polish vodka !!!

[@GeorgeEstregan828]

Nobody knows about vodka coz we mostly passed out and forgot about it. 😅

[@grifon1981]

Echoing the rest of the comments here: fantastic CEO, he should run for president! ...but real vokda has to be wheat, maybe barley :)

[@dannynannady]

We have the vodka at the bar I work at. The flavour is great but it has a lot of burn to it, which is a real shame and leads me to conclude that whoever is doing the distilling is doing a bad job. It markets itself as a premium vodka but the undeniable burn is holding it back.

[@liesbennoui7923]

🤔Strasbourg 🤚

[@TheSodomundGommorah]

But how do they turn starch into fermentable sugar???

[@dharsanbala4360]

பார்க்க ஆனச‌‌யாக‌ உள்ளது

[@ownSystem]

Great Volka moved away from Russia and moved to Poland :) 😊

[@d-zone]

"distillation helps to preserve potatoes" 🤣

[@davevillaire2990]

Distillation of grains and other starch and sugar bearing plants has always been used to preserve excess crops. The Whisky Rebellion in the early United States was the result of the government taxing the farmers excess crops that had been distilled to preserve them. No freezers or refrigeration in earlier times, you wouldn't want to let the excess rot after the hard work that went into producing them.

[@RanjeethMD]

Today, I realized vodka is made out of potatoes.

[@michaelcooper4986]

My girlfriend hates it when i drink vodka but listening to the way the ceo talks i would just to spite my girlfriend

[@velocirapture89]

Can't you also preserve the potato by slicing and dehydrating it?

[@IxHATExUCLA]

Vodka can be ugly consuming too much is crazy! And it’s pretty easy to drink too much vodka. Holly crap

[@franktechmaniac7488]

Over here in Germany in some regions a vodka like spirit from Tobinambur is made. It is a distinct flavor and usually drank as a shot.

[@thejoe9065]

Vodka is just korn... The difference being vodka is less regulated, less quality and can be made from any starch sources. so Topinambur is just one of the many raw materials u can make vodka/spirits from. Vodka can be made from anything.

[@RagnarokGenesis00]

in america we got something that we can proudly represent, it's called overtime. lmaooo

[@thecommonsenseconservative5576]

We have more than that but it sounds like you work too much to know

[@ChristieBaldwin-m4g]

Chance Court

[@Paglavc1]

Give a men a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. Now i know how to make vodka.

[@Phoenixz33]

Hi I would like vodka made from potatoes grown by the potatoes family please

[@processarea91]

Seven pounds for one bottle? That’s *spud-tacular*! Would you sip it neat or mix up a cocktail? 🥔🍸

[@andriyryeznikov7927]

No reason to talk about different potatoes each yet when vodka is the kind of spirit made by rectification method 😂

[@rexrex8664]

i tried vodka. woke up peed on the bed 😂

[@HeinKyawHlaing-ubesy]

😍😍

[@jeffreyhutchins6527]

Crazy how Vodka is mostly made from wheat, with a few brand exceptions.

[@BeeRich33]

I know plenty about this. I have a degree in it.

[@upsidedown1986]

About 105 degrees Celsius

[@dampaul13]

I thought Baijiu was the biggest distilled spirit in the world.

[@ownSystem]

Volka made countries born and lost alike

[@TrueSkyblueClouds]

the CEO reminds me very much of my dziadek in his mannerisms.

[@technodrone313]

vodka makes you wake up with a headache. sell half the potatoes. make some fries with the rest and start growing weed

[@chrisbrowne4669]

Potato Vodka tastes far better than grain Vodka, however the potato did not arrive in Europe until the 1500s. Originally it must have been from grain.

[@originalmianos]

Over 99% is from grain. This is just a unique speciality. If the mash is stilled to 96%, as required to be 'vodka' by the time you water it down, the rest will be very small.

[@andrewj0lic0eur]

he says 7lbs of potatoes per bottle not 7 potatoes

[@Sparks00psn]

Yes

[@lewis9888]

Is there a Retailer that sells Vodka in Glass Bottles and Not Plastic Bottles? Is there a Brand that is sold in Glass Bottles and Not Plastic Bottles?

[@antoinedoinell]

it's Wódka

[@ZeusZar]

Potatoes are actually native to the Americas

[@GenghisClaus]

So are Americans

[@zororosario]

Do you export to Canada? Would love to try this for the taste. Thanks Cheers

[@Swine-O-Sonic]

And that is why most vodka is made mostly from grain..

[@Tennisisreallyfun]

I mean, he’s correct. Have you ever heard of pickled potatoes? I looked it up, and apparently attempts don’t look promising, and they’re certainly not traditional. Potato jam? Same thing, not promising nor traditional. Basically, anything can be attempted by “trendy” chefs these days, and while these ones don’t look that good, it’s important to note that traditional Polish cooking really didn’t have a way to preserve potatoes. Alcohol was probably one of the earliest methods that came around when potatoes were brought back by settlers (vodka production in Poland via grain means is said to stretch back even to beyond the tenth century!)

[@SonoIlFactotum]

Search for "chuño"

[@davevillaire2990]

Distillation of grains and other starch and sugar bearing plants has always been used to preserve excess crops. The Whisky Rebellion in the early United States was the result of the government taxing the farmers excess crops that had been distilled to preserve them.

[@bulkhammerii3419]

Potatoes can be powdered and dry flaked also canned

[@benji-tintin]

🥂

[@Fr33Nomad]

So about 3 kilograms.

[@DwightClark-x2s]

Like it's called in my part of the world,tater juice