Fine Vodka - Minnesota style

Well, it looks like the big ethanol plant up in Benson is turning out a new product. Vodka. What the heck, fermentation is fermentation. It's called "Shakers" (don't know if that has religious connotations) and goes for $33 a bottle. "You don't want to get it down to $11 . . . or nobody will like it," Willis [a local shareholder and Shakers drinker] said. "You get that price on the East Coast or West Coast and nobody will buy it."

Apparently the locals like it when they go ice-fishing.

Uff-da!