If you’re a fan of vodka, you’ve already come to enjoy its smoothness and versatility in creating a wide variety of cocktails. However, besides its intoxicating pleasures, did you know there are many other uses for vodka? Vodka is a pretty handy substance to have around.

A Great American tradition begins with Grand Touring Vodka’s handcrafted vodka. GT Vodka is distilled 6 times using a proprietary filtration process that zeros out all the impurities. This vodka is so smooth you can truly drink it on ice alone; it’s a vodka with true drinkability.

Tito Beveridge’s love of vodka helped him start Tito’s Vodka, a highly successful handmade distillery business outside of Austin, Texas. (Video 3:06)

Betty White drinking vodka with David Letterman on the Late Show with David Letterman, January 18, 2011 (Clip 2:24)

Re-taste your youth. At 40 proof. Some things get better with age. Like chocolate milk… Chocolate milk with vodka that is.

October 4th is National Vodka Day 2010! I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party. ~Ron White

Want something different for your next party? Try Skittles Vodka. You can’t buy it in the liquor store, but you can make it. It’s easy.

The world’s first drink in a tube. The sales of GO Vodka have reached 10 million tubes so far. From Austria, GO is exported to more than 15 countries worldwide. Last year it made the big step to the US and Australia.

Jack says, “I never eat on an empty stomach.” Which means, he needs to have his martini before dinner. I never used to like martinis, until Jack made me one, that is. Now I love to have one, provided it’s made with Jack’s recipe. Enjoy the ultimate martini recipe, perfected over 50 years, by friend Jack. Try it; it’s excellent!