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Vodka turning pink in the bottle?


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Has anyone experienced vodka turning pink after being in a bottle for a while? 100% corn vodka, carbon filtered, starts out crystal clear....and turns a pinkish color after some time? Seems to have happened only after being opened for a while.

Only had one or 2 examples of this, just curious if anyone else has seen this. Possibly oxidation? Sunlight? Residue from cleaning solution used on bottling filter?

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Never had an unopened bottle go pink. There is a single bottle that supposedly has turned pink after some amount of time after opening....I've yet to actually see this and have seen hundreds of identical bottles not have that problem.

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The only thing I can possibly think of is high iron levels in the proofing water oxidizing?  The "supposedly turned pink" leads me to believe it's a customer making the claim?  Maybe someone wearing lipstick decided to sneak a swig from the bottle and some of the lipstick dissolved on the vodka that touched their lips?  Just an idea.

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We had some beer turn purple from residual cleaning solution. Not sure vodka would have all the pieces for the reaction to happen, but I would say it's a solid guess.

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