Somerville's Finest Rotgut is now attempting to manufacture something drinkable.

[xiphias]

Many of you may be aware of MS Walker in Somerville, the manufacturer and distributor of such fine liquors as Cossack vodka, Old New England eggnog, Canadian Regal whiskey, and some other brands which are also not of high enough quality to use as cleaning products.

In the "Brita Vodka Challenge", where you take the worst quality vodka you can find and run it through a Brita filter a couple times to see if it gets drinkable, "Cossack" is the go-to "Before" vodka. It needs, like, three passes through before it's fit for human consumption.

Anyway, they are now attempting to expand into a new product line: things that are potable. They've just released a new product: a St-Germain knockoff called "St Elder".

I'm interested to see how the thing is.

Comments

[ron_newman]

The Green Line extension is going to displace their factory (distillery?) in the Inner Belt district, taking it for an MBTA maintenance facility.

What condition is that Brita filter in after you feed it this stuff?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Destroyed. Three passes through means that you've used up three Brita filters. It's more expensive to filter cheap vodka than to buy the good stuff. But it's fun.

[ceo]

Yet another way the Green Line Extension will improve Somerville.

[ron_newman]

A local blog called Somerville Beat published this article about MS Walker and St. Elder.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's where I found the details of the story.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

THEY are the people making St Elder?! And I was so excited when I heard about it! Those poor elderflowers!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Hey, they say that they got different people to design it.