Talk:SKYY vodka

Popular in College?

Why is SKYY so popular among underage college kids? It's all I see on facebook... 169.231.42.55 (talk) 22:17, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Advertising

I can't find any resources talking about it..and I know wikipedia is against original material..but this article could use some notes about its advertising campaign. More specically, its inclusion in Delta's Sky Magazine. 68.211.24.94 07:17, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

VfD Results

On 27 NOV 2004, this article was proposed for deletion. The result of the debate was to keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/SKYY vodka for the deletion debate. SWAdair | Talk 05:53, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Merge

I see no reason to merge. Cburnett 00:27, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Is this still even an issue? I don't think there's any good reason to merge, either. Can we take the tag off now? Lemonsawdust 10:17, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, even if there was, the person placing the tag should have started a discussion about it. It's been there for so long now that I've removed it. --JoanneB 10:19, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Skyy Blue?

I think there should be a reference to Skyy's short-lived malt beverage "Skyy Blue" somewhere in the article. DrkBlueXG 14:22, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Anyone know the name of the female model in the current ads? 90.194.52.105 17:15, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Rebecca Romijn. Mike H. Celebrating three years of being hotter than Paris 13:47, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Skyy Vanilla

Are the flavored vodkas supposed to be included on this page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xxrobot (talk • contribs) 22:15, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Added manufacturing section

Added a section about manufacturing. "Skyy" is just a marketing company. The actual product is blended and packaged by Frank-Lin in San Jose. Here's a Google Maps link showing their plant, with three tank cars of ethanol spotted on their railroad siding.[1]--John Nagle (talk) 05:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

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MGP Ingredients

The ethanol for Skyy Vodka comes from a MGP Ingredients plant in Pekin, IL. The Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad provides some details on how wheat arrives in grain cars and ethanol goes out in tank cars. [2]. MGP stands for "Midwest Grain Products". They used to be called "Midwest Solvents Company". The article has a nice picture of the plant [3] which we cannot, unfortunately, use in Wikipedia. Anyway, that's what an industrial ethanol plant looks like. --John Nagle (talk) 05:40, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Is this relevant in this article? There's so much detail here on ethanol, and even on the fuel that stokes the fire in that plant, and I really don't see the purpose of it--but some higher-ranked person than me should remove that. I did take the liberty of removing a bunch of marketing-talk from the article, a couple of ungrammatical or weird phrases (5 brands of SKYY 90?), and a bunch of unverifiable claims. Drmies (talk) 02:48, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

It's appropriate to put "how stuff works" info in the encyclopedia, when it can be sourced. What's in the article is only a small fraction of what's available in the linked articles. Incidentally, when you find a dead link, don't just remove it; check the Internet Archive to see if an archived version of the page is available there. This time, it was. --John Nagle (talk) 03:53, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Some refs went to pay site

• The Billing, MT Gazette article went offline and is not archived by archive.org per "robots.txt". But there's a pay copy available at [4] --John Nagle (talk) 18:59, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

MGP Ingredients Pekin plant shutdown. Ethanol production now from Acheson plant.

MGP Ingredients' Pekin plant is in a shutdown. They exited the fuel ethanol business due to losses [5], and the Pekin plant's ethanol output was 85-90% for fuel, with only 10-15% for booze.[6] But MGP has a second ethanol plant in Acheson, KS.[7], with more than enough capacity to fuel Skyy production. Google StreetView has great coverage of the Atchison plant; you can see sections marked "Protein and Starch Operations", "Milling Department", a large grain elevator, a tank farm, a railyard, and the section like an oil refinery where alcohol is distilled. Looks like well-run old-line heavy industry. Union shop, even.

MGP also seems to have abandoned their EPA application to build a big coal-fired boiler at Pekin; no surprise there.[8]

Probably too much detail for the article. --John Nagle (talk) 18:55, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

The Pekin plant is back on line. It's now a joint venture with Seacor Energy under the name Illinois Corn Processing Holding, LLC.[9]. Ethanol output is split between Seacor, for fuel, and MGP, for food and beverage applications. Whether the ethanol for Skyy Vodka is coming from this facility or the bigger MGP plant in Atchison KS is unknown at this time.[10]. MGP Ingredients, incidentally, used to be known as Midwest Grain Products, and before that, Midwest Solvents, which opened the Pekin plant in 1980. MGP had a good year in 2010, and declared a dividend. Reuters has a description of the processing at Acheson: "The Company’s ingredient solutions segment consists primarily of specialty wheat starches, specialty wheat proteins, commodity wheat starch and vital wheat gluten. ... It produces a pure white premium wheat starch powder by extracting the starch from the starch slurry, free of all impurities and fibers, and then by spray, flash or drum drying the starch. ... The Company’s Atchison plant processes corn, mixed with the starch slurry from wheat starch and protein processing operations, into food grade alcohol and distillery co-products consisting of fuel grade alcohol and distillers feed. ... Food grade alcohol sold for beverage applications consists primarily of grain neutral spirits and gin. Grain neutral spirits are sold in bulk quantities at various proof concentrations to bottlers and rectifiers, which further process the alcohol for sale to consumers under numerous labels."[11]

So that's how the ethanol for Skyy vodka is made. Probably too much detail for the article. --John Nagle (talk) 02:43, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Frank-Lin moving from San Jose to Fairfield

Frank-Lin, which blends and packages Skyy Vodka, is moving from downtown San Jose to Fairfield, CA.[12]. The new plant will be about 6 times bigger. Frank-Lin was worried about losing their railroad access in San Jose. --John Nagle (talk) 17:06, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Relationship with Rare Breed Distilling

Someone put in that Rare Breed Distilling is now manufacturing Skyy Vodka. That's uncited. There is a business relationship, but a court case indicates that Skyy distributes a Rare Breed product called "American Honey"[13]. Skyy is now owned by Grupo Campari, which has about twenty beverage lines. --John Nagle (talk) 18:18, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Here's a press release on the acquisitions of Skyy and Wild Turkey by Grupo Campari.[14]. "The acquired business includes the Wild Turkey brands, American Honey® liqueur, distillery facilities in Kentucky, US, and aged liquid and finished product inventory." Skyy is now the US marketing arm of Campari and markets all Campari lines in the US. I'm not seeing any indication that this affected the vodka production line. Rare Breed/Wild Turkey has a bourbon/whiskey plant and barrel aging operation. --John Nagle (talk) 18:28, 13 August 2011 (UTC)