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Turn Cheap Alcohol Into Top Shelf Alcohol!

February 19, 2008

So you are anxious to start drinking, you go to the store, and the only thing your sorry ass can afford is bottom shelf vodka. You tell your friends that they put the more expensive alcohol in plastic bottles so that if you drop it, it won’t break. And you would be right, they do. It’s a fact. But let’s just say you want to filter your cheap vodka to make it taste (and feel as painless) as the top shelf stuff, you need a little magical contraption that was created by elves in the shire, called the Gray Kangaroo.

Much like Brita filters water, the Gray Kangaroo filters alcohol, and it works. It tastes much better and I’ve noticed a huge improvement on post drinking morning nausea vomitation syndrome, so check it out and get yours at Grey Kangaroo!

They have a 30 day money back guarantee, so what do you have to lose? After all, you’ll get drunk either way.

Gray Kangaroo!

GK Press Coverage: Boozemonger

Among their 12,000 drink recipes, you'll find this cool write up.


The Gray Kangaroo Personal Liquor Filter - Posted:

The Gray Kangaroo^TM is a unique device - it is the world’s first and only personal liquor filter^TM. It filters inexpensive liquor and gives it qualities of more expensive liquor by removing the impurities which cause bad taste and hangovers.

The Gray Kangaroo^TM is a foot-long carbon filter that works like the elementary school science project where you attached a pair of bottles together with a plastic piece to create a “tornado”. The Gray Kangaroo replaces the plastic piece between the two bottles and contains a replaceable carbon filter. The filtering action removes unwanted organic particles left over from the distilling process which cause the off-taste, headaches and hangovers associated with inexpensive liquor. Originally invented in 2001, the latest version (GK4) works with all hard liquors and is particularly effective for vodka which can be repeatedly filtered up to four times for optimum taste and quality. One GK4 will filter up to 50 liters of liquor and costs $29.95 at Gray Kangaroo. A life time supply of carbon filter refills costs $19.95.

Friend of the Kangaroo Jesse Lee shows off her smarts on the Howard Stern Show!

Congratulations to sexy man beater, star f-er and apparent genius Jesse Lee for appearing on the Howard Stern Show and smashing the whack pack in a trivia contest.

Jesse used her female smartyness to spell tomorrow and informed us all what year Columbus found America!

And she got to meet Bigfoot it is!

Daily Candy takes a bite out of the Gray Kangaroo!!!!

Holly Cosmopolitans Miranda!

Daily Candy: the coolest website for hot chicks with cool tudes gave us a big shout out! and then they ran a picture of a wallet. Sorry Jack I guess you're not in this season. But the GK is cause it saves you big money!

Here is the bit from their Father's day newsletter:

Fingers Crossed
He’s a penny pincher. Thankfully, your guests will never know it if he has a Gray Kangaroo, a genius contraption that filters out particulate matter and harmful toxins in cheap booze, leaving delicious, filtered vodka, whiskey, rum, and tequila that tastes like the spenny stuff. Let him at least pinch in style with a Comme des Garçons wallet. If he’s a baseball fanatic, let his fingers do the talking with a pen made from salvaged wooden stadium seats from his favorite team’s ballpark.

Episode 34 - Gray Kangaroo vs Clan MacGregor scotch

Our friends at shouldIdrinkthat.com have done another taste test video Featuring the Gray Kangaroo, if only we were so prolific!


Should I Drink That - EP 34 - Gray Kangaroo vs Clan MacGregor scotch from Should I Drink That on Vimeo.

Gray Kangaroo in Missbehave!

GRAY KANGAROO

Being an editorial assistant is really fun because it’s totally glamorous and lucrative. Actually, not really at all. What it does do is make you a little bit of a lush, ‘cause liquor makes poverty hurt less. So you can imagine how stoked I was that I no longer have to puke in my mouth every time I drink my non-top-shelf alcohol.

I filtered my good old standby Georgi through this awesome contraption called the Gray Kangaroo, and magically, it no longer tasted like it was made in a bathtub by some dude named Abner. Now my whole bar is filtered and since I refill this empty bottle I found behind my house, no one knows it isn’t Grey Goose.

A blind taste test [me, Sunday afternoon, sleep mask] proved that the Gray Kangaroo filter makes rubbing alcohol quality booze into rapper-endorsement grade liquor.

This is an invention from God (with help from some drunks, maybe). It removes impurities, makes hangovers less brutal, and you can get faced for cheap without having to put out. Buy it for $29.99 at graykangaroo.com – Olivia Allin

Gadgets & Gear.

Gadgets & Gear.
Gray Kangaroo Liquor Filter

Way back in our college days, our starving student budgets meant we were well acquainted with low-end liquors. Nowadays we’re buying liquors with a little more refinement. Sure this means forking out some extra cash, but it’s worth it to be drinking something which doesn’t taste like toilet bowl cleaner.

Little did we know, with a personal liquor filter, we could have turned all that cheap shitty booze into something actually drinkable.

The Gray Kangaroo Liquor Filter is the philosophers stone of drinking, capable of turning unappealing brands like Georgi, Gordon’s, and Palo Viejo into pure alcoholic gold.

It works sort of like a water filter, except the filtration material is specifically designed to filter alcohol. To use it, just stick your cheap booze in one end, an empty bottle in the other, invert the whole thing and wait for your booze to trickle through, leaving its dissolved organic particles behind. Each filter can purify up to 50 liters of any type of liquor, enough to last you a long while (and if it isn’t, please consider AA) and replacement filters are just $12.95.

The upshot of this is that by removing the impurities in poorly-made liquors, you can drastically improve their taste. If your plans for the evening require primo hooch, you can filter the same batch multiple times for better results, making your cheap swill comparable with a top-shelf brand. And since the stuff you’re filtering out is a major factor in headaches and nausea, your purified liquor is less likely to leave you with a hangover.

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Bubba the Love Sponge

Bubba the Love Sponge



Homeless Man Calls Shenanigans On The Gray Kangaroo!

The GK was featured this morning on the Bubba show during a quick "pre-homeless fight" homeless vodka taste test segment. After drinking the unfiltered vodka first and then the filtered the homeless man detected no difference between the two liquors, disproving the effectiveness of the GK. This is a blockbuster setback for the Gray Kangaroo with the lucrative homeless demographic which we've cultivated for years.

If only the man had read the instructions (which say to drink the filtered booze first when doing a taste test) maybe his street worn taste buds would have detected a difference.

So there you have it folks, the GK disproved on international radio, disprove it for yourself by picking one up and taking the stink out of your drink! And remember homeless or not we back up the GK with our money back guarantee!!!

"Four Nights in Philly"

Modern Drunkard Magazine

"Four Nights in Philly"

…The night was capped off with an impromptu science-experiment involving two shots of cheap vodka. One shot was run through the Gray Kangaroo Personal Liquor Filter, an ingenious device invented and sold by the renaissance men of the East Coast Office. I drank both shots, noted that there was indeed a marked difference, saluted their ingenuity...

…To celebrate my ingenuity, Nick and I decided to hold another Gray Kangaroo Taste Test. I tried unfiltered Taaka Vodka and it tasted like paint thinner, then I tried it filtered and it tasted like something suitable for celebrating our respective genius…

Maxim Magazine Holiday Gift Guide

Maxim Magazine
Holiday Gift Guide

Gray Kangaroo in Penthouse!

From the article:

DRINK UP

If you love to drink, but don’t want to spring for top-shelf liquor, invest in the Gray Kangaroo Personal Liquor Filter. The Gray Kangaroo works with vodka, whiskey, rum, gin, and tequila to remove particulate matter and harmful toxins, leaving you with filtered liquor that they say is competitive with brands that cost three times the price.

Liquor Snob

Liquor Snob.com

The fine folks at Gray Kangaroo have us convinced. Their product really works. It was able to take the most evil swill of a vodka we could find, and make it drinkable. Keep an eye out here at Liquor Snob as we test it out more, including Pepsi challenges comparing filtered vodka to the high-end stuff. And if you want to pick up a Gray Kangaroo of your own, head on over to the Gray Kangaroo site and tell 'em the Liquor Snob sent you.

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Stuff Magazine

Stuff Magazine

"Best Hangover Killer"

Being a cheap-ass booze whore is in again. (Mother will be so pleased.) The liquored-up folks at Gray Kangaroo were sick of slugging bottle after bottle of bottom-shelf gin and vodka that went down like fire-breathing crabs, so they’ve decided to do something about it. Quit drinking? Oh, no, let’s not get hysterical here. To protect their brains from bargain bleach, they created the Personal [Liquor] Filter ($30), which strips crappy booze of all its crappy impurities.

Don’t expect it to turn Georgi into Ketel One, but your esophagus won’t feel like you just swallowed Lava Man’s load either. The gizmo doesn’t effect the alcohol content at all, so your liver will still get to absorb all of those noxious toxins that promise to deliver you to an early grave. Why should the filter have all the fun?

Clinton Chronicle, NYC

Clinton Chronicle, NYC

"Spoons Says: "The Greatest Scientific Breakthrough Since Penicillin!"

by Spoons, Saloon Columnist

Imagine a device that let you put Hershey's chocolate in one end and dispensed fine Swiss Truffles from the other end. Or, more to the point, let you put dingy old pennies in one end and out came gold bars from the other. Well that in a nutshell is what you get when you use the astonishing Gray Kangaroo Personal Liquor filter. You put lousy cheap booze in one end, and out comes premium quality liquor at a fraction of the cost. That's the promise they make and after a month of experimentation Spoons assures you that it works.

The Gray Kangaroo has been described as a Brita for Booze. Sort of, but it is way more powerful than a water filter. The Gray Kangaroo gives the consumer the ability to turn a cheap $7 bottle of vodka into a product as clean and smooth as any top shelf $30 brand like Skyy, Van Gogh or Grey Goose. Just run the cheap stuff through the filter four or five times (the cheaper the stuff the more it benefits from repeated passes) and you are using the same filtering technology that the expensive brands use, but at a fraction of the cost. The device saves you a fortune because each one can filter 50 liters of liquor - including multiple passes - and it sells for under $30. Refill filters cost only about $11.

This is a personal money machine, allowing anyone to enjoy top-shelf quality beverages for bottom dollar. We here at Spoons Central experimented with a brand of vodka so cheap that it actually had particulate matter floating in it. It smelled like fuel and a sip straight up made us gag. Perfect to put these Gray Kangaroo people to the test. One pass through the filter and the vodka was noticeably cleaner and less harsh. By the second pass it was getting smoother. After four passes, all the stink was eliminated. A fifth pass, and what we had made the smoothest Apple Martini we have ever tasted. And the Bloody Marys were superb. This device is pure genius. We will never buy top brands of vodka again.

The Gray Kangaroo works nicely with all liquors including whiskey, rum, gin tequila, but all signs point to vodka faring the best. If you filter the other booze too much you risk driving out their flavor. But a pass or two does improve any cheap hooch. And the makers offer this guarantee: "If you don't notice a substantial improvement in the quality of your liquor after you filter it, send your Gray Kangaroo back to us within 30 days and we'll give you your money back with a handwritten letter of apology!"

If you have Internet access, Spoons ardently suggests that you look at their exquisitely ribald website: graykangaroo.com. There you will find all the info you could possibly want as well as photos, wallpaper, press reports and uproarious, impromptu videos of people taking "before and after filtering" taste tests.

Punk Rock Confidential

Punk Rock Confidential

"Give Me, Give Me, Give Me. I would like some more!"

"bleeaargh!", then you could use some cleaner hooch. The Gray Kangaroo Liquor Filter, like a Are you an Absolut drunk living on a Royal Gate budget? Do you have to mix the low-grade Popov in a gallon of tonic water before it's drinkable? If the answer to either of these questions is modern day Jesus, turns corner-store swill into a crisp, purified guzzle.

Maxim Radio

Maxim Radio
Sirius Channel 145

"The Bower Show"
Quotes from the show:

"[The Gray Kangaroo is] possibly a be-all end-all to crappy drinking of crappy hard liquor ever again"

"This makes a cheap bottle into a magnificent bottle"

"You're like a magician with this thing"

"Oh my god, dude that's so smooth!"

"I could probably drink a quart of that in five minutes."

"The difference is amazing!"

"You could use [the filtered vodka] as a chaser"

"Seriously the taste is unbelievable. This is not crap. Watching you guys filter this and then partaking in it: this is definitely not crap. This definitely works."

"People, we're telling you that this thing works, it's not a gimmick."

Laura the Producer: "I'm a wine drinker, I'll drink mixed drinks but I would never drink vodka straight, but I would take shots of this."

Archive:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Best clip: taste tests, amazement, etc.

G4 TECH TV

G4 TECH TV



"Screensavers"
Nearly 2 years after the public first heard about the GK on "Unscrewed", Tech TV ran another segment on the product.

Quote:
"The final verdict is that we tried it out, it tastes better, it works. If you’re really cheap and like to drink the cheap stuff, this is the way to do it. The filter, you can run, I believe fifty liters of booze before you need to replace it "

Juxtapoz Magazine

Juxtapoz Magazine

"Shaken Not Stirred"

Just when you thought martinis couldn't get any classier, Gray Kangaroo introduces the GK3, a new personal liquor filter that should be the next accessory to your wish list, along with you monogrammed flask, your custom Zippo, and your bad attitude. Kick down for one of these bad boys and you'll save hella money on booze. No more need for Absolut; now you can buy Royal Gate vodka for a fraction of the cost and run it through the ol' kangaroo's pouch a couple times with your Midas Touch. The end product will be so smooth, so lacking in particulate matter, that you can safely double-fist all night without even puking the next morning. Salud!

"Pink Elephants are a Thing of the Past!"

Synthesis Magazine

"Pink Elephants are a Thing of the Past!"

It’s the end of the month and bills, food but mostly alcohol have drained your funds. Like a resourceful student, you save money by skipping breakfast, maybe lunch, and hitting up the cheapest taco trucks for dinner. All this sacrifice just to be able to buy the most booze you can, to keep the buzz flowing throughout the weekend’s events. Taaka, White Wolf, and even Ray’s own brand of gin and vodka are by far the cheapest alcohol-in-quantity handles you can find. But wait! There is something you can do to ease the strain on your liver and stomach, while making the liquor taste top shelf all at the same time. Revolutionizing the drunkards one lush at a time, the Grey Kangaroo is making an impression on college students everywhere.
Read the whole article here.

"A Britta for Booze"

Philadelphia Magazine

"A Britta for Booze"

This year, millions of college students will frequent parties stocked with the cheapest alcohol imaginable – poorly refined liquors that cause hangovers worse than the taste of the products themselves. But according to the local inventors of the Gray Kangaroo, the world's first personal liquor filter, their brainchild will filter out the impurities found in inexpensive brands, making them taste – and feel – more top-shelf. You pour a bottle of booze through the GK's replaceable filter that's filled with "Moonrocks", a proprietary blend of particles containing carbon, and the filtered liquor trickles out the bottom, purportedly cleaner and more palatable.

Skeptical, we filtered some entry-level liquors through a prototype. The results were remarkable. While the Jim Beam did not transmogrify into Knob Creek, it was smooth, as were the Jacquin's rum and vodka. The Banker's Club gin became indistinguishable from Bombay (though not Sapphire). Plus, the drinkers felt pretty good the next morning. At press time, which corresponded with exam week, the first GK shipment from the assembly line in Turkey was expected to arrive in Philadelphia any day, and orders were already brisk, especially from e-mail address ending in .edu.

"Tidbits"

Vice Magazine

"Tidbits"

This…little invention turns Night Train into Courvoisier using an incredibly dense series of filters that take out all the impurities. Just pour whatever you want in the top and wait five minutes for incredibly clean booze to come out the bottom. Kind of a waste of time if you have a job, but when getting drunk seems prohibitively expensive this thing is a godsend. Oh yeah, and hangovers are about 90% less harsh the next day.

"The Link "

Greenville Gazette

"The Link "

Sound the Horn of Plenty! If you're like me, you've been searching for the perfect gift for your drunk uncle Bob, the one whose idea of Christmas caroling is having a bean burrito then hiring a taxicab to drive him all over campus mooning sorority girls. It's difficult to address this situation by visiting your local Spencer's at the mall, but luckily I have the solution.

It's called the Gray Kangaroo, and it's a liquor filter that will make that rotgut Burnett's vodka tasting like Belvedere. Basically you pour your plastic handle of spirits through the magical portal, and it comes out tasting top shelf and cuts down on your hangover too.

I've done approximately nine months of testing on this particular model, and I'm glad to report that it works with all the liquors I've filtered; whiskey, rum, even flavored vodkas. Check them out at www.graykangaroo.com, only if you're at least 15.

"Attack of the Bottlesnachers"

Las Vegas Weekly

"Attack of the Bottlesnachers"

After stopping in at one of the two swanky bars at either end of the ballroom, the laminated masses – maybe 500 or so – gawk at tables lining the back wall: swag from the handful of local LA-based bands serving as soundtrack to the weekend; Modern Drunkard gear including T-shirts, hats, flags, lighters and flasks; Drinkstuff.com taps and RU-21 Hangover Supplements; and Backseat Conceptions merchandise including T-shirts, poster, stickers, Hot Rod condoms and Gray Kangaroo Alcohol Filters, which as LVW can testify, are remarkably effective gadgets for making cheap booze taste top shelf-esque and help eliminate hangovers.