Russian Standard: the best bang for the buck vodka.

Even vodka is super cheap in the states

it's a bargain! picked it up for super bowl gathering but went ahead and cracked er open!

I agree - Russian Standard is tasty.

nothing wrong with the pre-game show i made 5 gallons of wine and 20 gallons beer im drinking some of the beer now

nice! I'm thinking a little hair of the dog this morning sounds pretty good. bloody marys

i dont drink spirits anymore i get into trouble

It's weird for me these days, I drink so infrequently but beer or wine hits me crazy hard when I drink either. I feel drunker and the hang over is harsh. The clean/filtered liquors like a good vodka or tequila don't hit me that way.

stay away from cheap spirits and beer. im going to the lake in the morning (not driving) see what i can catch. put a few blue powerades in the fridge. drinks some if you have a hangover.

BTW, that's a boat load of booze! 20 gallons of beer

Yeah, i gotta get the sugarfree sport drinks though. I also like a greasy but good hamburger and fries for a hangover.

That's cheap. 1L is £17 ($28) here

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/vodka-...udy-2D12023724

vodka to blame for early deaths of Russian men: study



A picture taken in the Russian town of Gdov, 434 miles northwest of Moscow, shows a bag with empty vodka bottles.

Russians may toast with the words ?Na zdorovie? ? "to your health" ? but a new study finds that many Russian men are often literally drinking themselves to death.

Russian men who drink three bottles of vodka a week double their risk of dying over the next 20 years, the study shows. It helps explain why Russian men have one of the lowest life expectancies in the world ? 64 compared to 76 for U.S. men.

?Vodka (or other strong alcoholic drink) is a major cause of death in Russia," the team of Russian and British researchers report in the Lancet medical journal.

But controls meant to limit drinking seem to be helping, they added. "Russian death rates have fluctuated wildly over the past 30 years as alcohol restrictions and social stability varied under Presidents Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin, and the main thing driving these wild fluctuations in death was vodka,? British cancer expert Richard Peto of the University of Oxford, who worked on the study, said in a statement.


David Zaridze of the Russian Cancer Research Center in Moscow and colleagues interviewed 200,000 people in three Siberian cities, Barnaul, Byisk, and Tomsk, over 10 years from 1999 to 2008. These cities reflect the average Russian population, they said. They asked them about drinking habits and health, and then looked to see who died and when.


The clearest pattern was among male smokers, who also happened to be the heaviest drinkers. They cleared out anyone who already had some disease when interviewed, and came up with 57,000 men. Men aged 35 to 54 who drank less than a bottle of vodka a week had a 16 percent percent chance of dying of anything over the next 20 years. But this rose to 20 percent for men who drank one to three bottles a week and to 35 percent for those who admitted drinking three or more bottles a week.

Most men did drink a bottle or less a week, but 2,842 said they drank three or more bottles every week. ?Since 2005, Russian consumption of spirits and male mortality before age 55 years both decreased by about a third but are still substantial,? the researchers noted.

Heavy drinking can cause cancer, heart disease, stroke, liver failure and other diseases, and drinkers are more likely to die in accidents or to be murdered. And people who drink and smoke together raise their disease risk even more.

The researchers checked to see if maybe drinking just a little was good for health ? other studies in other countries show a few drinks a week can be good for you ? but there wasn?t enough data to say if this was true in Russia.

Binge-drinking is a problem in the United States, also, although not as bad.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 38 million Americans binge drink, defined as quaffing four or more alcoholic beverages in a single bout

that price is a bit high, so must be good vodka?

try menudo if you have it around there. i dont put tripe in mine. i make tamales as well luv 2 cook

ok im buzzed and putting steaks in the marinate tub. happy new year! dogg!!

I haven't drank a full bottle of vodka over 3 years let alone 3 bottles in 1 week.

I mainly do Belvedere or Grey Goose, sometimes do Russian Standard or Absolute as well.

Me too, out and about at a restaurant/drinking establishment I'll order Belvedere on the rocks, if I feel like drinking booze. It's a good sipping drink and 1 of them usually takes me 45 minutes to an hour to get down the hatch, after the ice melts etc. It's rare for me to find the Russian Standard in bars although there is a vodka bar down the street from me that stocks it.

40ml of vodka 45 minutes?
Like you wait 40 minutes for ice to melt and then drink half of it at 41st and second half at 45th minute?

shit i drank too much

That's actually not that far off from it. I do wait a while to even take the 1st sip, maybe 10 minutes if there's not a toast being made. but yeah, not a guzzler of the booze. Used to though. Also have a glass of water going, I do guzzle that!

<- definitely a light weight!

bullshit! that's not water!

That explains the dancing on the table!!!!1

You just don't know how to drink it in a proper way ;)

In the mood now