Try a Cuban Breeze, one of my favorite summer cocktails.
Pour one ounce of the vodka and an ounce of Creme de Almond or Creme de Noyaux (think of strong, syrupy maraschino cherry juice w/alcohol) over ice with six ounces of pineapple juice. Stir and let sit until it gets very, very cold. Garnish by sticking a toothpick through a maraschino cherry and a chunk of pineapple. Enjoy.
Careful though, after the first sip or two you’ll likely find yourself drinking it in big gulps. 
According to the IBA and Wiki, it should be 2:1 OJ to vodka, but that’s stronger than I liked it. It’s been awhile, but I was more likely to drink 3:1 or even 4:1 so it didn’t hit me quite as hard. YMMV.
Boycott polish vodkas! The polish are claiming they invented the damn thing. Thats a complete lie, everyone knows the russians did. Until the polish government drops all claims to the invention of vodka don’t drink belvedere, or any other spirit produced in Poland. Who’s with me?
Seconded, a really good vodka is so smooth, it can(and should) be drank at room temperature. If its nasty enough to be frozen, I suggest you buy a bottle of Irish cream and amaretto, and then mix vodka:amaretto:cream in a 1:1:2 ratio. Serve with ice, drink in little sips, preferably in the company of a lady you like.
Right, 3:1 or 4:1 turns bad vodka into a mildly worthwhile lower alcohol beverage.
Sorry
Do you do vanity searches for Vodka? 
Just below room temperature, neat.
If you must have a chaser, it wasn’t good vodka to begin with, stock up on ginger ale and just choke the crap down, it’s still better than bongwater, right?
May I suggest the site Infusions of Grandeur for ideas. In the spirit of true Dopers they tried a bacon infused vodka.
What’s the equivalent of drowning it in gravy, because that’s how I want my steak.
Wait bacon or gravy damn! Bacon and gravy!
In all seriousness, I like rocks, sometimes with an olive or a twist of lime. Vodka doesn’t require much in terms of mixing flavors because it doesn’t have much of a flavor to begin with (one of the things I like about the spirit- you can make some nice, subtle drinks with it).
Flavored vodka is the devil.
Seeing this thread title, I clicked in, thinking someone might have mentioned a specific brand of Russian vodka that I will get to later. A couple of years ago my husband and I won a 3rd place drawing for a case of 6 bottles of vodka. It took me a long time to go pick it up because I just wasn’t that interested in 6 bottles of vodka.
So eventually we go get it and promptly put it in the basement, thinking we could give it as gifts. I mean, how on earth were we going to drink 6 bottles of vodka ourselves?! And several times it worked quite well in a pinch. We brought a bottle as a host/hostess gift to some friends we visited in Oregon, we gave 2 bottles to our service station guys for Christmas, sent one to my dad for no reason other than to share some good vodka with him, and did keep 1 for ourselves (I can’t recall where the last one went – hmmm).
When we first got it, I went online and tried to find information on it, but it was extremely scarce. I found a couple of blog reviews, but nothing else. So this thread got me curious to see if I could find anything about it.
This time I did! :eek:
I GAVE AWAY $2,500 worth of vodka! :eek: :eek: :eek:
Expensive lesson, dah. Pleasant, nyehtt.
I like White Russians, personally.
Indeed!
NYEHTT! LOL
And I remember where the last bottle went; my boss. Grrrrr.
I have to back groman on this. I’m not a vodka aficionado, but having tried a few good vodkas I can attest that a good vodka at room temperature has a very nice, cleansing effect on the palate; it is an entirely different experience from drinking an aged and malted spirit. Poor vodka leaves a kind of dirty or minty finish that is unpleasant, hence the need to chill it or mix it with juice.
I’ve had some good flavored Ukranian horilkas, but in general flavorized vodkas are strictly for chicktails. There are some barrel-aged vodkas that are quite good, resembling an Irish or Canadian whiskey in color and flavor, but these are rarely found in the United States. Personally, I prefer potato vodkas from those made from grain or grape ferment; my general preference for American vodkas is Blue Ice, which is also relatively inexpensive, at least compared to many mediocre “premium” vodka labels.
Stranger
Yeah - it seems like nobody is familiar with the brand, but everyone is treating it like it’s straight from Helen of Troy’s tit or something. Might be rotgut…
Joe
Dude, White Russian is not the preferred, uh. . . Caucasian. Please.
CMC +fnord!
Not trying to spoil your day further, but I hope no one here works for the Internal Revenue Service. I’m pretty sure gifting it doesn’t relieve you of the responsibility for paying taxes on the cash value of the prize. It’d be a shame if you had to pay income tax on $2,500 worth of vodka that you didn’t even get to drink.