Distilled Water for Ice Cubes?

A bar in Salt Lake City has been looking for ways in which to make better/larger/exciting ice cubes, and have experimented with distilled water to try and find a solution.

Karen Olsen, owner of Metropolitan, a lively and attractive night-time venue, has recently set her team to work to discover not only great new cocktails to pull the punters in, but also working to make their ice cubes just that bit more brilliant. Along with mixing together all sorts of spirits and coming up with yummy tasting drinks-including champagne cocktails made with a sugar cube in the bottom of the glass and playing around with the house drink of lack cherry vodka, orange liqueur, cranberry and lime- barman Jimmy has been boiling water, using distilled water, and shopping for different ice trays, in order to get the biggest, clearest cube possible. The results? Still pending, but the last we heard was that Karen was looking for smaller glasses to make the cubes look more enormous in comparison. Hmmm. So maybe the distilled water thing didn’t work out.

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