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!

[@dankification]

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

[@debauchery715]

commemorEater ;)

[@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

[@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! 🌱🇵🇱

[@davidpaylor5666]

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

[@Neosoul_prima]

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

[@WeLuv9x5]

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

[@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.

[@Юлиус-п6ц]

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

[@TheChefmike66]

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

[@eater]

Thanks for watching!

[@pjithmanyu]

This episode will touch one million views.

[@Sakja]

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

[@topherchung8910]

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

[@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

[@itmeryy]

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

[@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

[@Bulldawg44]

Chopin is top shelf 💯 super smooth

[@tools2use975]

This is beautiful work

[@smokeebeefpv]

Great, now I want to get a bottle. 😮

[@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.

[@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

[@biot_travel]

great ending to - nice finishing touch

[@nathankaminski3384]

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

[@johnt7776]

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

[@spg12Three]

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

[@phill.2924]

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

[@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.

[@jimmurphy6095]

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

[@danielhan4537]

Potato 🥔!

[@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...

[@AhTechus]

The video is very professional and easy to understand

[@eater]

Thanks for watching!

[@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😮😢

[@narragopichand3166]

Well presented

[@SunFrame]

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

[@JBSmoke1]

Great video! It's excellent vodka.

[@zororosario]

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

[@rogerandlyndabeall3840]

CEO speaks so beautifully

[@luisgordillo1695]

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

[@lawnguy905]

Brilliant

[@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.

[@tommcmanus3091]

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

[@RanjeethMD]

Today, I realized vodka is made out of potatoes.

[@Stefano10ace-e9l]

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

[@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???

[@michaelcooper4986]

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

[@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

[@robertkertoikromo8643]

looking good... all clean using rvs metal

[@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.

[@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.

[@RagnarokGenesis00]

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

[@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.

[@awengirr]

You make vodka if you don't have fruit trees. It is simple as that.

[@政徹武]

Yes, Polish vodka !!!

[@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.

[@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.

[@GeorgeEstregan828]

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

[@liesbennoui7923]

🤔Strasbourg 🤚

[@andriyryeznikov7927]

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

[@wernerhaase2632]

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

[@grifon1981]

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

[@processarea91]

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

[@ps-gh3hu]

Vodka = no hangover 🎉

[@jeffreyhutchins6527]

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

[@rexrex8664]

i tried vodka. woke up peed on the bed 😂

[@dharsanbala4360]

பார்க்க ஆனச‌‌யாக‌ உள்ளது

[@dampaul13]

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

[@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.

[@Phoenixz33]

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

[@ZeusZar]

Potatoes are actually native to the Americas

[@HeinKyawHlaing-ubesy]

😍😍

[@benji-tintin]

🥂

[@andrewj0lic0eur]

he says 7lbs of potatoes per bottle not 7 potatoes

[@Sparks00psn]

Yes

[@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

[@TrueSkyblueClouds]

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

[@BeeRich33]

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

[@upsidedown1986]

About 105 degrees Celsius

[@wax147]

Trying to hype up ethanol water is crazy

[@ChristieBaldwin-m4g]

Chance Court

[@originalmianos]

Can't be stilled more than once? Let's not let any facts get in the way of a story. This guy is more like a paid actor. Nice story and production all the same.

[@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?

[@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.

[@antoinedoinell]

it's Wódka

[@shaunwhalen-go1uj]

Vodka does smell and tastes aufull

[@SamTheMan666]

If only I were Into alcohol.

[@nandinhocunha440]

Bro, you are missing out

[@CwisAeon]

Vodka is vodka

[@radasfck]

vodka has no character like at all it always taste cheap

[@DwightClark-x2s]

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

[@SonoIlFactotum]

9:31 wrong! The Incas and now the Peruvians preserve potatoes by freez-drying. The result it’s called "chuño"

[@Sparks00psn]

I mean Americans have had dried potato for decades. Just add hot water and boom, mashed potato

[@SonoIlFactotum]

@@Sparks00psn Edward Anton Maria Asselbergs (1927-1996) was a Dutch-Canadian food chemist famous for inventing the modern process of producing instant mashed potato flakes in 1960.

[@Sparks00psn]

@@SonoIlFactotum U.S. Patent 1025373, developed by Ernest William Cooke, titled "Dehydrate Potatoes and Process of Preparing the Same", and describing a product that was to be reconstituted in hot water, was applied for in 1905 and granted in 1912.

[@ashtonmendez9366]

First 🥇

[@dantenorback7298]

7 kg not pounds??

[@ndup89]

Bober kurwa, perdole yeki bedle! Apologies for the beaver meme. This was very interesting, thank you!

[@marcom2248]

I'm wondering how many lifes where destroyed by this stuff...

[@gab.lab.martins]

"You cannot preserve potatoes in any other way!" Ahm… the indigenous peoples of the Andes have been preserving them in many ways for thousands of years. White guy thinks he invented fire and discovered the wheel. Yes I said it that way on purpose.

[@bensmith7536]

so the guy selling vodka poo-poos the essential nature of vodka..... no no no its not a neutral spirit, its as nuanced as anyone could want..... uh, yeah, its vodka, and what youre pushing is called spin.

[@Randomblackmail]

perkele

[@fredericbardoux9749]

It is wrong to say that products cannot be distilled more than once. Cognac is made with a double level distillation.

[@Tennisisreallyfun]

I think he just meant the initial distillation where we’re separating the spirit from the purée of water and grain or potatoes or grapes or whatever else is being made into a spirit. That “true” distillation can only be done once because, after that, there is no more separating the alcohol from something else that isn’t alcohol as the alcohol already exists. Now it just needs to be adjusted in ways specific to what is being made.

[@anonymousmc7727]

Vodka is for alcoholics 😂😂🎉🎉 cheers