Tasting some alcohol

Pasi — Mon, 02 May 2005 10:50:15 +0000

Last Saturday, on the eve of the May Day (Finnish Vappu), we had this little celebration event, including among other things some sauna bathing, watching ice hockey and tasting different alcohols. ‘Twas good evening altogether, and for your pleasure I present there results of our alcohol tasting panel here.

We had a selection of seven different alcoholic beverages, all of them more or less belonging to vodka class. These are listed in the table below, along with the total score. The drinks were administered in quantities of four or two centilitres, depending on the panelists’ individual choice. The panel consisted of seven people and both genders were represented. Drinks were scored on five distinct categories with scores from one to five, five being the best score: colour (3), first taste (6), after taste (7), odour (4) and overall image (5); the values in parentheses represent the completely arbitrary weights these categories were given in the total score.

Brand	Colour	First taste	After taste	Odour	Overall image	Total score
Koskenkorva Vodka Vanilla 37.5% (Fin)	3.625	4.375	3.625	4.5	3.5	3.536
Koskenkorva Viina 32% (Fin)	3.125	2.625	2.625	2.75	2.25	2.636
Koskenkorva Viina 38% (Fin)	3.0	2.42	2.29	2.71	3.42	2.70
Koskenkorva Viina Ruis 38% (Fin)	2.86	2.29	2.67	2.71	3.0	2.674
3 Graudu Degvins 38% (Lat)	2.86	3.0	3.57	2.57	3.0	3.074
Viru Valge 40% (Est)	3.35	2.33	2.5	2.5	2.83	2.636
Finlandia Vodka 40% (Fin)	2.83	2.33	2.67	2.16	4.17	2.83

There. I’ve marked the winning score in each category with bold text. Because Vanilla was such an obvious winner, I’ve also marked the second place holder with italic text. Hope this information has any use… And oh, the brands are listed in the order they were tasted, should it make any difference.

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Pasi — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:55:02 +0000

You people know me, I’m always wanting to use computers for any practical and non-practical use. Now, out of curiosity and need for a few bowls of punch, I created a small web application to calculate punch mixtures! It allows you to add all the booze you wish, mix it with necessary juices and stuff, and see what comes out, alcohol-wise mostly though. Unfortunately it is uncapable of determining if the stuff will actually taste good or not. Anyway, I present thee: T3h Pasi.fi Punch Calculator! Remember to have common sense when drinking alcohol.

By the way, if anyone wants to translate that page to other languages (than English and Finnish), contact me (see link on right) and I’ll send a language file for translation. Thx.

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Tasting some alcohol

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