Tito’s Handmade Vodka With Ugly Sweater

Vodka: Tito’s Handmade With Ugly Sweater
USA- Designed to be savored by spirit connoisseurs. Micro-distilled in an old-fashioned pot still to provide more control over the distillation process and resulting in a spectacularly clean product. Only the heart of the run is taken, leaving behind residual higher and lower alcohols.
Size: 750mL
Proof: 80 (40% ABV)
Origin: Austin, Texas USA
Distillery: Mockingbird Distillery
Tito’s Handmade Vodka is America’s Original Craft Vodka. In 1995, Bert “Tito” Beveridge obtained the first legal permit to distill in Texas and created Tito’s Handmade Vodka. We batch distill our corn-based vodka using old-fashioned pot stills and the vodka is naturally Gluten-Free. Tito’s Handmade Vodka is distilled and bottled by Fifth Generation Inc. in Austin, Texas on the very same land where the whole venture started.
Tito’s Handmade Vodka With Ugly Sweater Tasting Notes
Nose: There’s a dusty quality to the aroma while any corn aromas you find are faint.
Palate: It is fumy and prickly. The body of the vodka is watery and soft.
Finish: Peppery finish.
Distillery Information
So Tito set out to learn about how to distill. It was the early nineties, and pre-internet, so there really wasn’t any information readily available, and it almost seemed as though there had been a book burning at the library on any subject matter related to spirits and distilling. Eventually, through his research, Tito uncovered a bunch of pictures of old moonshiners and prohibition-era busts. He started building stills based on photos using copper pipe and a simple outdoor fryer for heat, and started cooking. He just kept messing with the still and the recipe until he found a process and a recipe that his friends seemed to like. “I basically just kinda kept working at it and working at it. We bought every vodka that was on the shelf, we put them in little mason jars and tasted all of them and came up with the two best ones. When mine consistently beat those two then I figured that I had my formula right.”