Review: Big Spring Spirits Coconut Rum
Big Spring Spirits Coconut Rum was released December 2014, along with a Spiced Rum, and Seven Governors Gin. Big Spring Spirits is named for Bellefonte’s Big Spring. This spring was awarded the Best Tasting Water in the State by the Pennsylvania Rural Water Association. The distillery also received a Gold rating from LEED, considered the leading benchmark in green buildings. Big Springs was conceived by friends, and Penn State alumni, Paula Cipar and Kevin Lloyd, and is located in the old Bellefonte Match Factory. This factory opened in 1900 and was one of the leading producers of wooden matches. The factory closed in 1947 due to competition from book matches and cigarette lighters. Big Spring Spirits Coconut Rum is made from 100% Caribbean Fancy Molasses, and is distilled in a pot still. Water sourced from the before mentioned Big Spring is blended to reduce to proof. Natural flavor is added before bottling at 70 proof. Read more 
Review: Ciroc Summer Colada Vodka
Ciroc Summer Colada Vodka is a limited edition vodka available in very limited quantities at liquor stores and top hotspots nationwide. It joins a flavored vodka lineup that includes Amaretto, Apple, Coconut, Mango, Peach, Pineapple, and Red Berry. The vodka base for each of these flavors comes from a blend of Ugni Blanc and Mauzac Blanc grapes. The juice is made into a wine. The wine is distilled four times in stainless column stills by Master Distiller Jean-Sebastien Robicquet at his 500 year old family owned Maison Villevert Distillery. A fifth distillation follows in a traditional custom copper pot still at Distillerie de Chevanceaux in the South of France. Coconut, Pineapple, and other natural flavors are infused before bottling at 70 proof in an all white bottle. The Ciroc brand was first launched in 2003, but it wasn’t until Diageo partnered with Sean Combs in 2007 that the brand blew up. Combs is responsible for managing all Ciroc lifestyle branding and marketing initiatives. Read more
Review: Veil Coconut Vodka
Veil Coconut Vodka is one of 18 vodka flavors created by the Distiller Sales Company in Princeton Minnesota under the Veil label. I believe this is a private label brand of Total Wine and More. It is made with premium grains and pristine water and distilled five times and charcoal filtered. Coconut flavor is added before bottling at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Svedka Colada Vodka
Svedka Colada Vodka was introduced July 2012. It was their seventh flavor at the time, and it was bottled at 75 proof. Svedka now produces 12 flavors and their Colada flavor is bottled at 70 proof. This review is for their 75 proof Colada. I have yet to find their 70 proof Colada. Each 750ml bottle is made with four pounds of Swedish winter wheat. A continuous distillation process is used before the vodka is run through high performance purification columns five separate times to remove impurities. Ice cold water from Swedish springs is then blended with the vodka before natural coconut, mango, and pineapple flavor is infused. With this ingredient list, and the name on the bottle there is no doubt a Pina Colada is the inspiration for this vodka, but since it is made with vodka instead or rum a more appropriate name would be Chi-Chi. Read more
Review: Pravda Coconut Vodka
Pravda Coconut vodka is one of eight vodka flavors Pravda creates in Poland with their original vodka as a base. It is made in small batches with pristine ice cold Carpathian mountain spring water and local late harvest sweet rye. They use a five step continuous distillation process that includes two extra high column stills. This is followed by an extra distillation in a copper still to soften the taste. It is then filtered with charcoal made from French Birchwood. A cold stabilization process where the vodka passes through ultra technical filters under high pressure is then used. Natural flavors are infused before bottling at 75 proof. Read more
Review: Blue Ice Island Coconut Vodka
Blue Ice Island Coconut vodka is one of four flavored vodka’s they currently offer in limited markets. The other flavors include Blue Raspberry, Crème Brule, and Sweet Peach. Blue Ice also crafts three unflavored vodka’s. Those include an American Potato, Organic Wheat, and their G Multi-Grain. Island Coconut starts with their G Multi-Grain vodka as a base. It is made with premium hand selected American grains and it is distilled five times before natural coconut flavor is infused. Read more
Review: UV Coconut Vodka
UV Coconut vodka was introduced in May of 2010. It is made in Princeton Minnesota with yellow corn and purified water from deep aquifers in Minnesota. It is distilled four times then filtered with activated carbon. UV Coconut is bottled at 30% alcohol with ingredients including natural coconut flavor and Florida grown sugar cane. Read more
Review: Finlandia Coconut Vodka
Finlandia Coconut vodka was introduced in 2014. It is one of ten flavors Finlandia currently creates in Koskenkorva Finland. They start with pure glacial spring water and the finest six row barley. A continuous distillation process with more than 200 distillation steps that leaves no impurities to filter is used. All natural coconut flavor is infused before bottling at 37.5% alcohol. Read more
Review: Smirnoff Coconut Vodka
Smirnoff Coconut vodka was introduced in June of 2011. It is made in the US with their Recipe 21 vodka which is triple distilled and filtered 10 times using premium grain. Natural coconut flavors are added and it is bottled at 35% alcohol. Read more
Review: Pearl Coconut Vodka
Pearl Coconut vodka was launched in 2004 as Pearl Lo Coco. It was their first line extension from original Pearl vodka, and it was later rebranded to Pearl Coconut. Crafted in micro batches using pure water from Canadian Rocky Mountain streams and soft winter wheat it is distilled five times then filtered to perfection. Natural flavors are then infused. Read more