Diamond Vodka

Strange New Products found an interesting sort of vodka from Poland:

Diaka Vodka is being billed as the world's most expensive vodka, maily because of its unique diamond filtration process.It's made in Poland where they use nearly one hundred diamonds of up to one carat in size, to filter the spirit resulting in a Vodka
with unsurpassed clarity and smoothness. The bottle itself is made with
crystals, though not of the diamond variety.It's now being distributed to
the USA by TransBorder Spirits USA, a division of TransBorder Marketing,
Inc.

I doubt it strongly. Actually I don’t believe it at all. You can filter vodka through diamonds or rubies or sapphires – its quality wouldn’t change a grain. Vodka could be filtered through carbon and this is the most popular method because carbon is an active element. It could also be filtered through quartz but this method is very expensive as one needs immense pressure for the active process. Filtering vodka through egg yolks was very wide spread in Russia in the 19th century but it was actually the process of coagulating not filtering per se. A bucket of yolks was needed to “filter” just one bottle of vodka that was certainly expensive and time consuming.

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