Man, the best of the cheap shit. A staple for the minimum-wage alcoholic. Best vodka 12 bucks can buy.

i am amazed by all the negative comments about skol. as of this minute , i am swallowing 3 ounces of skol ,straight at room temperature. over many years i have purchased many cheap brands of vodka. the absolute worst came from a grocery chain known as albertson’s .since i was born in the south,as a child i was given many folk remedies for common ailments. one of these “medicants” was turpentine. albertson’s vodka tasted like turpentine and was totally undrinkable. my other choice has always been crystal palace over many years, i have put crystal palace and skol into bottles with expensive brand names on the bottles and not one of my friends ever noted that what they were drinking didn’t taste right. I do have a palate for various forms of alcohol jim beam white label is my favorite bourbon. chivas is my favorite scotch. i don’t care for gin, but my fave is tanqueray. since i began writing these few sentences, i have consumed another 3or 4 ounces of skol. i think i need to pass out. also i have swallowed several xanax and a couple of oxyconton.

I’m Russian, so I can claim some vodka “expertise”, and I always drink my vodka neat. No fancy cocktails. Now, having said that, I drink in moderation and ALWAYS with a hearty meal. My favorite vodka is “White Birch”, which is unfortunately not available in the US. The second favorite is “Russian Standard”.

So few days ago I found myself at a liquor store in Bennington, VT and wondering what to buy. RS was over $20 a bottle and I wanted to try something else, like Icelandic, but it was about the same. I thought what the heck, why not try something different? Sköl was $4.99 for the same 750 ml.

Now, it is NOT BAD AT ALL. It’s not as smooth as I’m used to, the taste I can describe as ” acidic” and my wife compared it to potato moonshine, but so far it does what it should WITHOUT NASTY side effects!

So for the value I give it solid four stars.

I like Skol… For the price tag of $8, where I live, it’s down right amazing. It goes down smooth and mixes very well.

I could almost compare it to Sobieski.. except Sobieski has a MUCH more pronounced after bite.

Skol is easily my 2nd choice of Vodka’s, right after Tito’s.

Just got some for $3.69 for a pint and honestly when u miss it with cranberry juice it’s taste ok. At the end of the day drinking vodka is to get you twisted. So in my opinion this does the job

love all the comments from vodka snobs. Im married to a Russian. Been there 5 times. I’ve tasted the best and the worst. Skol is not the worst and is completely drinkable straight. Get a life outside of vodka and stop pretending your’e a vodka connoisseur. Buy it!

I’ve been a bar owner for 10 years and have served thousands of customers. I’ve tried all of the bottom shelf vodka and for the last 5 years Skol is my well and all of my customers like it. I’m not saying it’s fabulous vodka but out of the bottom shelf… it’s the top seller.

this stuff is the best man!! the cheap price makes up for the taste, just mix it with some mtn dew and you’re set for the night!! I <3 SKOL!!!

I drink Skol right from the bottle with a ginger ale chaser. Let’s face it they all taste pretty horrible. For my purpose Skol is well served.
Why spend more?
Roger

This vodka is great, whoever is posting this vodka as one star or no stars obviously does not know how to drink alcohol correctly. Vodka can be drunk as a shot or two in a mixed drink, or made as part of a cocktail, or made into a martini on ice. Drinking it out of the bottle or criticizing it because of your old relative or what it does to their liver is not a reason to review their vodka. Skol tastes good for the price. It’s not the cheapest vodka, and it doesn’t taste cheap. It makes a good cocktail or mixed drink, if you drink responsibility, and try to drink one drink an hour instead of a gallon!

Skol>Kettle One and Titos. About the only thing better is Goose or Belvedere.

My assesment is totally opposite of above. Skol rates better than even top shelf vodka’s, any vodka in fact. I’v been a SKOL fan since first it surfaced in my area.

I love Vodka and have tried many. I keep Tito’s, GG, Belvedere, and a bottom shelf. Ive tried most and Skol is my favorite as well. I hide my expensive stuff in my basement bar when my friends come over. I mix their stuff with Skol and they love it. I drink it casually and it never gives me bad hangovers. I think it is more than fine for the price and we all get the right result after hitting it a bit…

What is all the connoisseur pretentious ? In a Playboy blind taste test of vodkas, Skoal landed in the top five. I’ve tried the premium brands and …well…you can pay for their fancy advertising, but not the product.

Started drinking skol when I was still a kid , can’t get drunk off the expensive shit so I pay 6.99 for a fifth and have one hell of a night …. Not advised to use as a mixer more of a shooter kinda vodka

Skol is one of those things you sort of start to tolerate over time, it’s dirt cheap, and gets the job done. I prefer it to Taaka (same price here in TN) since I’ve never successfully managed to drink Taaka and not feel like I was going to die the next day. It’s sharp to the taste, and taking a shot without properly priming and chasing it has a similar feeling to that of eating steel wool that’s coated in hot-sauce. It’s rough, and unforgiving, but for the price I still drink it.

Straight: Try not to smell it, and I also wouldn’t recommend it.
Primed, and Chased: Proper priming completely eliminates the horrific taste, as well as masking the burn, when done properly it tastes like you’re just drinking flat soda.
As a mixer: With real OJ, not horrific, just tastes like the orange juice is about to go bad, when using orange drink it tastes awkwardly like metallicy-orangeish water, mixed with soda, it makes the soda taste old and flat.
In a cocktail: No, you’re making cocktails, make those right.

If you’re just in it for the buzz it’s not a bad choice, just prime and chase for shots with (diet) soda. if you’re looking to drink something you’ll enjoy, I recommend Absolut, or anything else for that matter Taaka being a personal exception.

When ordering a shot of/drink containing vodka at a restaurant, always make sure you aren’t going to end up with it. I’ve seen several restaurants use it as their house vodka, and paying anymore than $4 for a pint makes it completely undesirable.

I usually drink hammer and sickle grey goose etc. I tried skol at a friend’s bachelor party it smelt like poison and tasted like like iron but it did the trick with no hangover mixed in a bloody Mary with tobasco not bad or with crangrape but I say try at your own risk

Tastes about as fine as Smirnoff with a similar hangover.. *however* if you drink too much of this stuff it will totally wreck your body unlike a clean top shelf Vodka.. lots of impurities will probably destroy your liver twice as fast.

Mix with lemon juice in a shot the bitter lemon goes well

I just purchased this brand and WOW, it is rough! But hey, what should’ve I expected. I was curious the difference between vodkas since I have just begun to explore at age 55 lol.

I tasted it one time and it made me sick. My cousin kes loves it, he thinks it is premium but I think he likes the cheap price 3$ for a pint.

I like grey goose the best but on a budget skol wasnt so bad as a mixer with crancherry.I can tolerat it.

I’m not a big drinker – I usually buy a fifth every two weeks. Ive taken to buying Svedka after reading the review here. Most times it can be found for $9.25 – at that price it is a steal. Recently, probably because of gas prices, it has went up to almost $14. In not really wanting to blow $15 after taxes on my after dinner drink or two, I went with Skol for $7.50, and I’m so damned sorry I did. It is hard to be shocked considering I knew what I was getting into, but I am.

Actually, I prefer straight vodka to mixed drinks. Until recently, that was the only way I drank vodka. For reviews, I don’t simply knock back shots. I try to take in the flavor and experience the vodka, rather than throw it down. I’m sure one could get by on Skol if they shot and chased it so fast that they didn’t “savor” it. However, while trying to enjoy the vodka, I just don’t see how anyone could prefer the taste of Skol, even ignoring the obvious bottom-shelf-ness of the vodka. It seems to me Skol isn’t and doesn’t pretend to be a good vodka.

That said, everyone is entitled to his own opinion. If you want to drink Skol, I certainly won’t stop you.

I have drank skol vodka for awhile. This last bottle tastes like nail polish remover or a bad rum. I was wondering if there was anyway I could contact them?

Until I get better I happen to like Skol. I live in an area where Zelko is bottom of the bin. I can stand Skol straight but not Zelko. I have Oj and a bottle of Skol. With some minecraft and some online tv It’s shaping up to be a good two day weekend for this walmart worker. I DID get the bottle for free from a family member who got it duty free. My Short LIst as of right now is :Johnny Walker Red, Makers Mark, Patron Silver, Conquistador, Jose Cuervo Black and now Skol. With Others if its not Angry Orchard- Guiness, Troegs, Samuel Adams, Yuengling, Mikes hard anything. I’m only 28 give me time. Good weekend to you all! CHEERS!

I agree Sköl is absolutely undrinkable. It reminds me of bad bootleg booze.

I haven’t been able to quantify hangover potential. A lot of that does have to do with the impurities that don’t get filtered out, but it has a lot more to do with whether you re-hydrate (since alcohol causes dehydration, which has all kinds of nasty effects associated with hangovers), whether you ate food during / after drinking (as I’ve found eating a good meal after reduces the stomach nausea), and how well your metabolism works (as I found in my younger years that I rarely had hangovers and now I have them more often as my metabolism slows with age).

So, I could say whether I got one, but I don’t think it’d be indicative of other people’s experience and it may unjustly show poorly for a vodka if I didn’t take care of myself before bed. That said, for the Imperia review (currently rated #4), I did mention the hangover (or lack of one). I did this because their site specifically pointed out the lower impurities would result in less of a hang over.

As far as reviews, I am the only reviewer at this point. I usually post my opinions, then post those of the people I drank with at the end of the review. So, not only did I review Rain, I reviewed every vodka on the site. Rain is a really great vodka for the dollar. You may be interested in Sobieski as well. It’s priced around Smirnoff, but is better than Stoli. In fact, it’s better than a lot of vodkas I’ve had. It’s currently rated #6.

My cousin loves skol vodka he thinks highly of it. I told him that its garbage and he’s making his liver work overtime. Every time he drinks it he cant walk he slurs his words and he passes out. Its time he invest in another high quality vodka

Worst vodka ever, didn’t even get me a drunk feeling. I bought a half gallon of this stuff, and everytime I’de drink it I wouldn’t feel the alcohol except for a headache. It just makes you feel sleepy and gives you a headache. Was a complete waste of money.

Back in my early drinking career, I grabbed a large plastic bottle of Skol vodka off the bottom shelf. The price was unmatched. I immediately commenced my drinking session and well, long story short, that stuff ain’t vodka. I was drinking it straight out of the bottle and halfway through i still retained high quality brain function. It was the most disappointing purchase I’ve ever made that includes the copy of a John Corabi-era Motely Crue album I bought. Buyer beware.