I just pour Grey Goose.

Quiet moneybags, us cheapies appreciate the tip.

If you're the kind of person that gets skittish about such things, buy a replacement britta filter cartridge. That'll be CP or Food grade carbon. Cut it open, and use the carbon granules as described.

My weapon of choice was either Fleishman's or.. can't remember the other brand. Something cheaper than Fleishman's. To be honest I can't tell the difference taking it straight. So you make a greyhound or screwdriver, or pour enough olive juice in there if it's a martini, ostensibly to cover up the burn as it goes down. I'm a beer snob and while I normally drink cheap beer, I see the difference between a good beer and a cheap beer as much more important than a Fleishman's vs. a top shelf vodka.

True, that. You can fake a good vodka but you can't bullshit on beer. It's more like baking bread than distilling spirits as such.

Probably doesn't help that I bartended at a divebar in Milwaukee where people didn't order Makers on the rocks. But if you're gonna order an Old Fashioned with anything besides Old Thompson you're doing it wrong.

Running it through a new Brita filter 5 times works well, and is a lot faster.

It also fucks up your filter really quickly.

Hence my suggestion/method.

It is an old adage that you can have Fast, Cheap and Good. But you only get two.

My hack is optimized for Cheap and Good.

You can certainly run it through a filter N times. This would be the Fast and Good option. As JBF suggests, the filter will not work well under these conditions and will quickly be depleted.

Why my method is so much more efficient gets at the issue of how these kinds of filters work in the first place.

Vodka window cleaner is my go-to from now on.

By pretty much I mean absolutely all.

My parents would always put those Mr. Yuck stickers on their stash of vodka when I was a kid in case I was able to get up and reach it.