Making Flavoured Vodkas

[whotheheckami]

Following on from yesterday’s post, I now have a pile of blackberries and a bottle of vodka sitting in front of me. I’m soooo tempted to just scoff the blackberries and drink the vodka, but I’m going to listen to yonmei and make some bramble vodka. Luckily, this will involve drinking the vodka that the berries displace :@D However, it has got me thinking about what other flavoured vodkas I could make; I’m currently thinking about having a go at:

Raspberry vodka – with late raspberries scrumped from our neighbour’s garden
Plum vodka – if sneerpout doesn’t eat the UK’s entire crop ;@P
Chilli vodka – with some of the wonderful dried chillies that daemongirl brought back from the states for me
Sloe gin – if I can suffer the scratches from picking them and find a reliable recipe

Over to you now:
1. What other flavoured alcohols could I make?
2. Where can I buy a lot of cheap vodka?

Comments

[uberredfraggle.livejournal.com]

cherry vodka is good. my dad flavours vodka every summer for his birthday party.

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

Cherries - bleurrgh :@(

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Chilli vodka is fantastic.

I also like orange vodka: strip the white pith off the peel of three or four oranges, and soak it in about half a pint of vodka for two or three weeks. (Fantastic in hot chocolate. Good on its own.)

BTW, you will find your life infinitely improved if you put the berries in a wide-mouthed jar (the sort Horlicks come in is perfect) and pour the vodka over them to soak, later rebottling the vodka with the use of a small plastic funnel. Trust me on this one.

If you do find a good place to buy large amounts of cheap vodka, let me know, okay?

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

>>a good place to buy large amounts of cheap vodka

Well it will almost be vodka-ish :@)

[lysana.livejournal.com]

I have had such a wide range of yummy flavored vodkas (*snif* I miss that restaurant) over time. Cinnamon-apple works nicely for a warm-weather sort of vodka. I've seen many kinds of berries used as well as citrus fruits.

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

Citrus - good idea!
Apple and Cinnamon - hmmmm

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Someone mentioned melon vodka. Didn't mention what kind of melon, but I'm thinking a very ripe honeydew, what do you think? Cut up into chunks, soaked in vodka. Mmmmmm.

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

*whimpers*

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

*looks at whotheheckami, frowns*
*thinks* **Now are those good whimpers, or bad whimpers?**

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

However, I do have a reputation for shooting melons with a shotgun.

Something which Alexi happened to mention to a police inspector at a party last night - eek!

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

good, very good! :@)

Hello there!

[dotty.livejournal.com]

When I think I *actually* have some of my brother's fig liqueur and my dad is keeping some plum brandy back at home...(sigh).

Incidentally, my mobile just drowned in water so waiting for it to dry and check it. If dead, I will end up having to buy a new one but they are so expensive. Still got the SIM card, it's a relief.
You got my home number? (just in case. I may have to wait a month before getting a new one)