Cheap as chips vodka that serves its intended purpose (Tesco Value Vodka)

Member Name: worst_trip

Product:	Tesco Value Vodka
Date:	09/11/09 (51 review reads)
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Advantages: Inexpensive, to date non-methanol-contaminated spirit

Disadvantages: Does not taste all that great; potential causative agent of cirrhosis of the liver

Let's be clear: Tesco Value Vodka is not a drink anyone buys to put on display in their 'drinks cabinet' or to carry around with them to look cool.

It's cheap alcohol, costing just over £7 for 700ml of the stuff. With its 37.5% alcohol content this is strictly one for (a) the cash-strapped / and students; (b) those who want to swig it in order to make themselves pass out as quickly as possible. On those terms, it works very well indeed for its intended purpose.

Tesco Value Vodka, admittedly, doesn't taste great; it tastes of vodka, which tastes of raw alcohol presented in justabout its purest legal concentration. This is by no means a sippin' liquor; people who drink it want to get it down their necks as quickly as possible, for various, and pretty obvious reasons.

Though if you are unwise enough to hold any quantity of Tesco Value Vodka in your mouth for long enough that you become actually able to taste it, you'll find that it tastes no worse, and actually quite significantly better than many of its similarly-priced competitors on the cheap-booze market. The notable advantage that the Tesco product has over these inferior grain-based spirits is that (as far as I know) nobody, to date, has ever been convicted for producing and marketing counterfeit Tesco Value Vodka from their garage somewhere in the East Midlands; something that I understand happens quite a lot with other, bargain-basement vodka products. With Tesco Value Vodka you tend not to have to worry that you're consuming unsafe, methanol-contaminated stocks of the product, at least.

I'd like to be able to claim that I only ever buy this stuff to marinate joints of meat in, or that I only use it for nice, wholesome culinary purposes, such as the brewing of home-made fruit-based liquors like sloe gin. But no. Though in the past I did use it once to clear an infestation of scale-insect on a curry plant (the protective carapaces of scale insects dissolve when immersed in 37.5% alcohol but unfortunately, so did my pot plant) on the whole personally I generally just use it to go with plan (b).

Yes. Drink responsibly! (Not)

Summary: Cheap supermarket spirit