Vodka Made From Sugar Beets Right Here In Minnesota
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Well, why not make vodka out of sugar beets? The craft beer industry is really saturated. There s a bunch of breweries; distillers, very very few, he said. So we kind of had the lightbulb moment and said, let s create another social, locally made spirit, or drink, I should say, and that was a spirit, vodka, made out of sugar beets.
BET Vodka, pronounced beet, is made from sugar beets from the Red River Valley and boasts a sweeter locally produced vodka. originally, they attempted to make the vodka from raw sugar beets but ran into problems with the quality of the sugar beets by the time they transported from the Red River Valley to Minneapolis.
Vodka Made From Sugar Beets Right Here In Minnesota
Leave it to Minnesota ingenuity to come up with a great idea like this. Ben Brueshoff, of Minneapolis was pondering awhile back about starting a craft brewery but figured the field was pretty much saturated. So what now?
Well, why not make vodka out of sugar beets? The craft beer industry is really saturated. There s a bunch of breweries; distillers, very very few, he said. So we kind of had the lightbulb moment and said, let s create another social, locally made spirit, or drink, I should say, and that was a spirit, vodka, made out of sugar beets.
'This is a really subtle vodka that has this nice vanilla peppery finish when you sip it, and I think that's a credit to the sugarbeet, to this local Minnesota crop that we're using,' says Ben Brueshoff of BĒT Vodka.
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