From: prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid   
      
   So someone tells me, "Vodka is not vegan. They use milk in making it!"   
      
   Ah, the thrill of alarms bells going off in me head, just like old times when   
   there was a deadly spider in the yucca palm!   
      
   I wasn't sure how a mix of ethanol and water could be not vegan, or how using   
   milk could benefit a vodka. A bit of googling turns up one vodka ("Parliament")   
   that uses milk to settle impurities. I think the milk is used as beaten egg   
   whites are to clarify a broth.   
      
   A recent read of one home-still/moonshine site also suggested that while a lot   
   of the impurities bind well to activated charcoal, mechanically filtering out   
   the finest dust of that charcoal suspended in the vodka will improve the taste   
   significantly with little effort.   
      
   So, there is non-vegan vodka...   
      
      
   Thomas "now returning to regular programming featuring the other coal" Prufer   
      
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