The holidays season is wonderful. So many parties. So many chances to consume alcohol with friends and strangers! We conducted the another Brita filter experiment. This time with tequila:
Material:
- 750 ml bottle of Sauza Blanco ($10 from Pavillions)
- 750 ml bottle of Cabo Wabo Reposado ($36 from BevMo)
- Brita filter. Approx age ~2 months.
Procedure:
This time we decided to have fewer samples. But many more times filtering. We ended up having 4 different samples:
- Cabo Wabo Reposado (which is not clear like Sauza, but hey it was dark)
- Unfiltered Sauza
- 4-times filtered Sauza
- 8-times filtered Sauza
Double-blind test result:
Surprising results! This time it was dead easy for most people to pick out the unfiltered Sauza (I can personally attest that it was awful -- and remember, this was a true double-blind test). Only Christine, who is owner of the Cabo Wabo bottle, liked the Cabo Wabo (happy ending there). But the jury unanimously agreed that the the 4-times and 8-times filtered Sauza were equally good and waaaaay better than the unfiltered Sauza.
Conclusion:
Well, duh, Brita filter works with Tequila!
Thanks:
Experiment master: Pierre
Tequila sponsors: Pierre and Christine
Could-have-gone-blind tequila tasters: Christine, Crystal, Crystal's sister, Crystal's friend, Scott, Wandy, and I think there were more but I can't remember!
Shall we move onto bad whiskey?