When you pay for liquor you are paying for two things: processing and advertising. Processing is relatively easy but why would a liquor company take that extra step unless they were going to pay for the costly advertising to let the public know that their product is above standard? They are not.
Until the Gray Kangaroo™ the consumer had only two choices expensive brand name liquor or liquor that competes on price. The Gray Kangaroo™ gives you the ability to choose how good you want your liquor to be.
How do I use the Gray Kangaroo™?
The Gray Kangaroo™ is a bottle to bottle system. It requires an empty bottle to use. If you don't have an empty bottle don't worry! Once you have a GK all you will have is empty bottles. It takes 5-7 minutes to filter a liter of liquor with the he GK. You can filter liquor multiple times for optimum effect.
Click here to see how the Gray Kangaroo™ is used.
How did you think of this?
The Gray Kangaroo is the result of years of experience in the world of Entertainment Sports Drinking and Promotions.
Click here to see an article about the origins of the Gray Kangaroo™.
Does the GK lower the alcohol content of the liquor?
No the alcohol content and potency remains the same however the liquor is much less detectable (just like super-premium liquor) because so many of the impurities in it are removed.
I've been told that the GK makes hangovers a thing of the past. Is this true?
Basically yes. Everybody's body is different so we can't guarantee across the board that you won't wake up with a hangover. But we can say that in our extensive testing we have had incredibly positive results on the morning after.
The main improvements on the morning after are a lack of headache, nausea and dizziness. Certainly we can say that compared to what you would feel like if you drank the same amount of unfiltered low cost liquor you'll feel much better.
There are certain realities about liquor and alcohol which you just can't escape. Alcohol dehydrates you and drains your body of vitamins. You may feel drained in the morning it's nothing compared to what you would feel like if the liquor was unfiltered.
What's inside?
It's no secret that the Gray Kangaroo is a carbon filter. However what people don't commonly know is that we use the highest quality, strongest grade carbon available on the market. Due to our wish to make the safest, cleanest product possible the GK uses only liquor-safe plastic, stainless-steel screens and filter material in our product. No dangerous dissolvable membranes, no questionable plastics or anything else that can be ruined by liquor or promote bacterial growth is found in the GK.
What kinds of liquor does the Gray Kangaroo™ work with?
Does the Gray Kangaroo™ only work with vodka?
Though many people would say that it works best with vodka The Gray Kangaroo™ works with all hard liquors. Tequila, Rum, Whiskey, Bourbon, Gin, Vodka, Moonshine, etc.
All cheap liquors share a very distinct bad taste. It is this "cheap liquor taste" that the Gray Kangaroo Personal Liquor filter removes. Allowing you to sip cheap liquor without wincing.
How much better does it make liquor taste?
The Gray Kangaroo™ changes the liquor so completely that it is common in taste tests for people to enjoy the GK filtered shot of liquor and spit out the same liquor when they try it unfiltered.
When you filter vodka with the GK you can filter it multiple times, easily bringing the quality of well vodka above the quality of premium vodka.
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What brands of liquor do you recommend filtering?
First off you should start with vodka. Once you've filtered some vodka you'll get an idea for the strength of the filter and be clued into the "cheap booze bite" that the filter removes. You should always save some unfiltered liquor to gauge how much difference the filter makes.
Once you've filtered some vodka then you should try some other liquors. The perfect amount of filtering is up to you but what we try to go for is retain as much of the liquors flavor and remove as much of the "cheap booze bite" as possible.
We'll keep a list of suggested brands but the rule we generally stick to is buying the second or third cheapest liquor in a particular class. So if there's a $6 bottle of vodka then you will probably want to buy the $8 bottle. Cause the CHEAPEST booze is usually really really bad. So spend the extra buck or two, you're still saving lots of cash vs. the name brands.
Suggested types or brands of liquor:
Georgi Vodka (filter cheap vodka 4-6 times)
Kamchatka Vodka
Jacquin's Vodka
Jacquin's Vodka (100 proof)
Everclear
Devil Springs
Crown Ruse Vodka
Ten High Whiskey
Old Crow Bourbon
Darker Rums (filter it till it's a shade or two lighter, but still tastes like rum)
Early Times Whiskey (filtered twice, kept it's color and taste. The GK changed the the repugnant aftertaste to a warm finish)
Got suggestions for this list? Email us...
Why does my whiskey turn clear when I run it through the Gray Kangaroo?
Whiskey is a loose term which liquor companies abuse. Many a cheap whiskey is barely whiskey at all. Look on the bottle you will usually see something like contents: 20% Whiskey %80 neutral spirits. That means that the booze is %20 whiskey and %80 vodka mixed together with coloring added. In this case the GK is filtering out the coloring. We advise avoiding these kinds of liquor for use with the GK. If you're looking for a good whiskey to filter we have had very good results with Ten High whiskey. Ten High keeps its color and the whiskey taste while massively reducing the cheap booze taste.
How much money will I save with the Gray Kangaroo?
Here are the published PA state liquor prices from April 2007:
| Brand |
Per liter Cost |
Percentage |
| Recommended Generic Vodka |
$7 |
%100 |
| Smirnoff |
$14 |
%200 |
| Absolut |
$21 |
%300 |
| Stoli |
$22 |
%314 |
| Belvidere |
$31 |
%443 |
| Chopin |
$41 |
%586 |
| |
How much money will you save?
Prices based on 750ml bottle size. |
| |
High Quality
$19.99 |
Budget Price
$7.99 |
| |
Bottles Filtered |
Savings |
| |
1 |
$12 |
| |
2 |
$24 |
| |
3 |
$36 |
| |
4 |
$48 |
| |
5 |
$60 |
| |
6 |
$72 |
| |
7 |
$84 |
| |
8 |
$96 |
| |
9 |
$108 |
| |
10 |
$120 |
| |
15 |
$180 |
| |
20 |
$240 |
| |
25 |
$300 |
| |
30 |
$360 |
| |
40 |
$480 |
| |
50 |
$600 |
How is the Gray Kangaroo different than a commercially available water filter?
GK uses filtration materials which are far superior to what you will find in a water filter. By partnering with carbon suppliers who specialize in providing carbon for industrial filtration we are able to jam the GK with carbon that is a much higher grade and strength than anything you will find in a water filter. GK also uses many times more filter material than a water filter.
Also our filter material is optimized for liquor. Water filters use a variety of filter materials, some of them improve liquor while others (which eliminate chlorine, lead and other hazards in tap water) do nothing for liquor and only waste space. Also some filters use plastics and silica which are dissolved by hard liquor and end up making your drink taste like crazy glue.
Most importantly the GK is designed to easily filter liquor multiple times and built to be rugged enough to be used by a group of heavy drinkers. Also it will outlast a water filter BY MONTHS due to the massive amount and high quality of filter material we use.
Did you rip this off from Ohmygoditburns.com?
No. OMGIB was based on our product. Check out this excerpt from their site:
I had previously heard of a company on the internet which makes a filter for liquor, so it was with that in mind that I came up with this experiment. I believed that the filter would hold back some of the more noxious chemicals in the vodka, which lead to the bad taste (and possibly hangovers). The basis for this belief was my own experience with activated charcoal tablets. Taking these while drinking can definitely lessen the chance of a wicked hangover. It seems that the charcoal binds with some chemicals which contribute to them...
Did you seal this from Tech TV?
No. Tech TV kind of intimated that we stole it from OMGIB during a 2005 segment where they featured our product. However if they had done ANY research they would have seen that we were on Tech TV with the product in mid 2003 and OMGIB didn't launch until the end of 2004.
Didn't Mythbusters "bust" this?
We haven't seen the segment and couldn't find it on the internet. But from what we can figure out Mythbusters did a piece on filtering liquor with a water filter and concluded that it kinda worked but was too expensive and bothersome to be worth it, which is the truth! That's WHY we invented the Gray Kangaroo. They should have contacted us and featured the GK but their show is called "Mythbusters" and not "Basic Cable Advertises The Best Miracle Product Ever", so we think we know why they ignored the GK. We challenge Mythbusters to try and bust us! You can't bust the kangaroo, because it's awesome.
Can you use it with malt liquor, beer or wine?
No, the Gray Kangaroo is designed for hard liquor. You could run beer and wine through the GK but the taste wouldn't improve. The beer would taste flat and the taste of the wine would be off. The reason for this is that beer and wine are more complex chemically than hard liquor, they have additional elements in them which are trapped in the filter.
Wine update: We have had positive feedback from a person who filtered cheap wine with a GK. She filtered half of the bottle using only one pass through the GK and then mixed the two portions of wine together. She said that the taste of the wine was much improved. Also some friends in SF filtered two bottles of inexpensive white wine and said one bottle tasted better after filtering and one tasted worse.
Can I run other liquids through the filter? Liquids like orange juice, cola and water?
No, like beer and wine, juice and soft drinks are much "dirtier" than hard liquor and might clog your filter. You could put water through the Gray Kangaroo, it's much more powerful than l water filter, but who drinks water?
Isn't it dangerous that the GK removes the taste of alcohol to such a degree that it is, as you claim in your advertising, "virtually undetectable" in a mixed drink?
Alcohol is a dangerous substance. Filtered liquor with less taste is no different chemically than expensive liquor with less taste.
Click here to go to Alcoholics Anonymous and see how dangerous alcohol is.
Can I pour rubbing alcohol, witch hazel or lighter fluid through the Gray Kangaroo™ and drink it?
No.
How do I change the filter?
Unscrew the neck and screw it onto the new filter. Make sure that the top and bottom necks go back onto the top and bottom and don't get switched. You're done.
How long does a GK3 filter cartridge last?
The GK3 will last for at least 50 liters of liquor.If you take for granted that it takes a $8 bottle of liquor and makes it roughly equivalent to a $25 bottle of liquor (GK filtered liquor beats liquors that cost much more than $30 in taste tests) then the GK pays for itself in savings after just 2 bottles.
