The undead thread... I somehow feel compelled to comment on any thread that centers around vodka. In one of his books, Bret Easton Ellis talks about how he once had to drink his vodka frozen or in chilled form, but how, over time, this became too much work, probably because of the inconvenience of chilling down a handle that you just bought at the liquor store (why isn't vodka kept in the freezer section?). Hence, he started to just drink it warm and, over time, came to prefer it that way because he could actually taste the alcohol even more intensely that way. Well, at the end, I was still chilling mine, but was going through so much volume that it became hard to stay stocked up at home. Just some obsessive vodka thoughts...