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re: Your ‘Craft’ Rye Whiskey Is Probably From a Factory Distillery in Indiana

Posted on 7/31/14 at 7:08 pm to
Posted by BooDreaux
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Posted on 7/31/14 at 7:08 pm to
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The speaker was a former manager of the Tito's brand who left because "they haven't distiller a drop in years". They buy and bottle.

My jaw dropped but after thinking, I'm not surprised.


Our show has been working with Tito's for a number of years now and I thought I knew this was patently false, so I reached out to Tito's corporate and sent them the link to this whole thread.

Here is the response: “Obviously, some people have been delivered some poor information concerning Tito’s Handmade Vodka. I can assure you that Tito’s Handmade Vodka is 100% Distilled and Bottled at the Mockingbird Distillery in Austin, Texas and they do not buy a drop of liquor from anyone at any stage of distillation. The distillery is celebrating its 17th year of continuous production this year. It is 6 times pot distilled and made from 100% American Yellow Corn. No “manager” has left Tito’s Handmade Vodka so the claim that a “Manager stated that they haven’t distilled a drop in years” is completely false. In fact, the distillery is adding more pot stills to make more of their high quality, American made brand.”


Posted by LoneStarTiger
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Posted on 7/31/14 at 7:16 pm to
Posted by kfizzle85
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Posted on 7/31/14 at 10:15 pm to
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This post was edited on 8/31/19 at 2:54 am
Posted by DoctorTechnical
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Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 7/31/14 at 10:50 pm to
Hah. This whole Tito's micro-dustup reminds me of an iconic #8 Dale Earnhardt Jr. commercial, way back when NASCAR commercials were actually funny -- and people actually watched NASCAR Sorry for the lo-rez

(the irony is that later on he actually *did* change his number)
Posted by Boondock544
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Posted on 8/1/14 at 1:30 am to
Well that conflicts what I said. I'm going to do some digging and find the name of the Tito employee.
Posted by GumboPot
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Posted on 8/1/14 at 1:07 pm to
quote:

Here is the response: “Obviously, some people have been delivered some poor information concerning Tito’s Handmade Vodka. I can assure you that Tito’s Handmade Vodka is 100% Distilled and Bottled at the Mockingbird Distillery in Austin, Texas and they do not buy a drop of liquor from anyone at any stage of distillation. The distillery is celebrating its 17th year of continuous production this year. It is 6 times pot distilled and made from 100% American Yellow Corn. No “manager” has left Tito’s Handmade Vodka so the claim that a “Manager stated that they haven’t distilled a drop in years” is completely false. In fact, the distillery is adding more pot stills to make more of their high quality, American made brand.”



If you purchase neutral grain spirits (190 proof corn ethanol in Tito's case) and distill it 6 times through a pot still the statement above remains valid. Note, "liquor" does not mean neutral grain spirit.

ETA: here's an article exposing Tito's in Forbes: LINK


This post was edited on 8/1/14 at 1:12 pm
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