The origin of Skyy Vodka is located in San Francisco, where inventor and entrepreneur Maurice Kanbar created the brand in 1992. In a search for a 'no head ache' vodka, he realized that the headache is caused by waste (so-called "impurities") caused by the formation of alcohol. This problem is avoided by distilling the vodka 4 times and filtering in 3 phases. With this, he immediately reached his goal to, as he claims, create the most clean and pure vodka in the world.