Daniel Craig, Celebrity Chefs Celebrate Vodka From Milk, UK Farmer Makes First Milk Vodka

Vodka from milk sounds like a fabulous discovery and farmers from UK seems to have discovered the formula for creating them, as reported by the Daily Mail.

As the world knows, Vodka is the choice drink of Russia and is typically made of grain and consumed by hard-bitten drinkers in sub-zero temperatures.

But in Beaminster, Dorset in the UK, farmer Jason Barber is making the world’s first milk vodka – thanks to his herd of 250 cows.

Barber’s Black Cow vodka has become the must-have drink at restaurants owned by Heston Blumenthal and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Reported fans of the tipple include 007 star Daniel Craig and Liz Hurley.

The milk from Barber’s cows is separated into whey and curd. The curds are used to make cheese while the watery leftovers – whey – are then fermented into a beer using special yeast, which converts the milk sugar into alcohol. Some journalists praise this process of making vodka form milk with a “whey to go” thumbs up remark.

It is then distilled and treated in a secret blending process with the vodka then being triple-filtered before it’s bottled, appropriately, with a gold top.

It took Barber three years to master the process and produce the vodka, which his panel of approving experts say has “a creamy nose.”

Barber, 47, is a sixth-generation farmer and had the idea of a vodka from milk when he watched a TV documentary about a small republic in Siberia called Tuva, where the citizens created vodka from yak milk.

“I’m a big fan of vodka,” Barber said, “it’s the only drink that doesn’t give me a hangover.”

Tom Parker Bowles, writer of The Mail on Sunday’s food and drink said, “OK, so vodka made from milk doesn’t exactly sound enticing. But Black Cow Vodka is one of the most remarkable things I’ve ever tasted – wonderfully smooth and beautifully rounded. It’s made from the whey of proper Dorset milk and makes a Dirty Martini you’ll never forget."

Black Cow is made from the same milk used to make Barber’s award-winning 1833 cheddar. The cheese is the winner of the World Cheese Awards Cheddar Trophy for the year 2012.

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