I've spent most of today relaxing and separating nerds while sporadically shaking my mason jars of skittles vodka. Sitting in my fridge are jars of of earl grey, vanilla red tea vodkas, and one of lemon. Anyone else ever tried anything like this?
Presently I'm "brewing" a maple liqueur. I got the idea when a friend of mine described the flavor of maple as "intoxicating." I thought it would be novel to actually get intoxicated whilst ingesting maple. I found a recipe for maple liqueur and the sole ingredients are pure maple syrup and rye whiskey. The "brewing" process involves aging equal parts whiskey and maple syrup in the refrigerator for two weeks, shaking once daily. As it happens, I too have combined my ingredients in mason jars. They've been aging in my refrigerator for well over two weeks now. In another three weeks I shall sample them. I experimented with the ratios a bit: two mason jars each contain 1:1 whiskey to syrup, one jar is 2:1, the last jar is 1:2. I will also experiment with higher-shelf spirits and syrups.
I think my next project is to get some high-proof vodka and see if that'll work for the skittles vodka. The skittles vodka turned out fantastic. Using a cheap French press for the first step of filtering makes it a LOT easier. My lemon and lime seem to have turned out alright (two separate jars). I'm going to give it another day and then remove the fruit from the jars. The mandarin orange ones I made didn't turn out very well, as the flavor of the fruit doesn't seem to have seeped into the vodka at all. The teas are incredibly bitter. My efforts to add sugar seem to have failed, so I'm probably just going to call them a loss.
That would turn the vodka brown, and actually take the air of "rainbow" out of the equation. Though it would still taste quite magical. I'm about to try making mead, but I don't want it to simply be a mead...I want it to have a hint of raspberry or cherry. The hardest part will be the wait.
I acquired some of the high-shelf syrup last night. It is distributed in narrow glass bottles that resemble flasks.
How do you relax a nerd? Wait... after my experiences in that other thread, I don't think I want to know.
What. The dye did, after being submerged for around 10 minutes, dissolve and turn the liquid a rather nuclear color. I'll see if I can download them from Facebook and post them.
I wound up doing that with the nerds, actually. Surprisingly good. I need bigger bottles so I can do this on a larger scale.
The maple liquor isn't very good. Don't try it at home and by no means pay to experience it elsewhere.
