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Why You Can’t Freeze Vodka
Jun 12, 2025
Today we are examining the clear, unfreezable liquor we all know as vodka! maybe you have memories of substituting vodka in a water bottle to imbibe at a festival, or, perhaps the memory of vodka still makes you break out in a cold sweat of hangovers past... come join us, with or without your favorite vodka cocktail, as we delve deep into the past of all things vodka!
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Today, we're cracking open some ultra-distilled facts about vodka
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Nothing beats a popsicle on a hot day. Except maybe a popsicle that can get you drunk
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But if that's what you're after, we advise you to stick some wine or beer into a freezer
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You can forget about trying it with vodka. Even after months in an average household freezer, vodka will remain liquid
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This unusual quality boils down to the freezing point of alcohol. You see, all beverages with Zing do not share a single freezing point
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Instead, it depends on their individual water and alcohol percentage. The Russian favorite packs 40% alcohol, placing its freezing point at negative 16 degrees Fahrenheit
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In 2019, Dutch customs officials immediately became suspicious when a Chinese-owned ship
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called Nebula docked at Rotterdam with a shipping container full of Russian vodka
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All told, it carried roughly 90,000 bottles. The paperwork claimed that the alcohol was destined
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for China. However, Dutch intelligence strongly suspected that it was actually being smuggled to
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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. However, United Nations sanctions prohibit the importation of
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luxury goods into North Korea. In 2013, Russia passed some new laws which allowed their police
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to arrest foreign visitors for being homosexual or showing support for those who are. To draw the
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world's attention to the bigoted new laws, LGBT activist Dan Savage started a campaign to boycott
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Russian vodka. LGBT organizations soon spread the word, and to a minor extent, it worked. Several bars
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in Chicago stopped serving vodka and countless activists stopped buying it as well In response one of the boycotted brands Stolignia made it very clear that they supported the LGBT community and had no ties with Russia which is true
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Stolignia is produced in Latvia. Is it really even vodka then? But another brand targeted by
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the boycott was Russian Standard Vodka, produced in Russia by a wealthy oligarch, and they made
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no expression of solidarity. Back in 2012, a retail vodka vendor in the land of 10,000 lakes
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experienced a fire that reached roughly 12 feet into the air. The owner told his insurance company
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that sunlight streaming through a window had set a bottle of vodka alight, which in turn exploded
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turning the small flame into a blaze. That sounds far-fetched, so the insurance company was skeptical
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Luckily for the store owner, his security camera caught the whole thing on tape. Turns out
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the vodka bottle acted like a lens and focused the sunlight's heat on a single point in the
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display case, which was made of cardboard. Researchers interviewed just over 150,000 men
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from three Russian cities to gauge their drinking habits. After about 8,000 died, the study then yzed the causes of death
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and found that heavier vodka drinkers were at an increased risk for an early demise
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The drink was even linked to 35% of those who perished before the age 55
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When the Chernobyl meltdown occurred in 1986, the contamination was so bad that the surrounding 2,600 square kilometers
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were thought unfit for life for the next 24,000 years. These days, however, you can actually buy vodka made from grain and water
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harvested from the once-forbidden exclusion zone. If you're wondering why anyone would want radioactive liquor
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the distillation process removed the radioactive waste and the subsequent tests declared the vodka safe
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