Awesome Vodka

If there’s one thing we know about dogs – it’s that they like to fetch stuff. This man has harnessed this innate canine ability and put it to good use – to retrieve his beloved vodka.

Absolut’s small-batch premium vodka is made using a restored 1929 copper rectification still, producing ever-so-subtle fruit and floral notes not found in other pure vodkas.

For those who enjoy entertaining at home, the iPad Drinkspiration app offers 3,000+ drink recipes with images; it also creates shopping lists and suggests cocktails based on the ingredients in your kitchen.

This Bulgarian triple-distilled vodka contains an insane 88% alcohol (176-proof). It’s sure to put hair on your chest whether you want it or not. The label even says “handle with care.” Please do.

DQ Vodka’s unique bottle is made by one of the finest glass makers in Europe, with metal surfaces akin to high end automotive standards and satin chrome finish for the top and bottom caps.

Vodka maker Smirnoff is rolling out this limited-edition triple-distilled batch, packaged in an vibrant bottle in collaboration with French electro-DJ Vitalic. As long as it gives us a good buzz, we’re good.

We dig these flavored vodkas in melon-mint, ginger-coriander and espresso in truly hip flasks with monster illustrations. Too bad they’re only available in Germany, so gut trinken to you guys.

We’re with the Drinkhacker: the versatile French St. Germain spirit can elevate a wealth of cocktails with its sweet/uncloying lychee character, balanced with lavender, summer herbs, and lemon finish.

Drink up for science: the methodical minds of RND Vodka use a continuous glass column distillation method to create their small batch spirit, and are donating 5% of profits to science education.

From Jalisco, the newly released small batch Karma tequila is made with a multiple distillation process and no additives. Silver available now; reposado and anejo versions are currently aging.

Attention pyro wannabes: please make sure there’s sober supervision before making any of these drinks you can set on fire; we want you to continue to live – and to read The Awesomer afterwards.

The new Rich Oak 14-Year Old from Glenfiddich has significant flavors of oak, sweet vanillas and light fruit, due to a short maturation in both new European (12 weeks) and American (6 weeks) oak.

Quadrupled distilled and triple filtered through Herkimer diamonds, Dan Aykroyd’s Crystal Head Vodka from Newfoundland is a pure spirit free of additives, packaged in a supercool bottle.

A terrific stop motion animation video created by 41? 29! for Binboa Vodka from Turkey, using 550 bottles drawn by hand for the animation and 5000 photos taken in over 100 hours of shooting.

Dutch beverage maker Medea is offering a small batch, wheat-based vodka that comes in a bottle with a 255 character/6 message programmable LED display. Haiku contest anyone?

The Old West-style leather label isn’t just for looks; 1860s Genuine American Vodka is made in Wisconsin with 100% American grain that’s distilled five times and filtered with Mesquite charcoal.

The deep south and the cold north get together for Jeremiah Weed Sweet Tea Vodka; Drinkhacker loves the stuff, which is essentially 70-proof iced tea that goes down ridiculously easy.

It’s targeted towards the ladies, but we like Belvedere’s Black Raspberry Vodka for its simple flavors and smoothness; maceration is the process of extracting flavors from fruits and rinds.

We’ve seen Baconnaise, bacon t-shirts and a bacon lance of death, so why not bacon-flavored vodka? Bakon is made from Idaho potatoes and infused with the taste of peppered bacon.

Named for the location of its distillery in Wisconsin, 45th Parallel Vodka is made from local grains and may not have a distinct taste, but its neutrality makes it ideal for use in cocktails.

It’s not the first alcoholic energy drink we’ve featured, but Vicious Vodka skips the taurine and guarana and goes straight for pure caffeine; it’ll boost energy without the nerves.

Ireland isn’t much known for its vodka, but Drinkhacker is waxing positive over Boru Vodka; this quintuple distilled drink is available in both flavored and unflavored varieties.

Jett Vodka has California written all over it, which makes sense considering it’s available only in LA; it adds trendy guarana, ginseng and caffeine for a slight boost with your buzz.