If it's made from grains, distilled to at least 80 proof and aged in contact with wood, let's have some!
Infuse Your Booze! A Complete Guide To DIY Flavored Liquors
Infuse Your Booze! A Complete Guide To DIY Flavored Liquors
This is one of those posts where I will come off as a lush, and an opinionated one at that. But these cocktails? They are simply research, baby - this is all for you. If you like the creativity of cooking and combining flavors and you drink hard alcohol then booze infusions are a natural place to play around and have fun personalizing your liquor cabinet.
Subtitle: IMMA DO A THING!
Hello, my lovelies. I have a social gathering this weekend and thought I'd do some special boozy winter cocktail sorts of things. I have some whisky on the shelf that I'm not a huge fan of neat, but it's quality stuff and certainly worthy of an infusion or cocktail.
I've never infused anything... well that's probably not true considering how high my blood alcohol content was in my 20s, but culinary infusion is new to me. Have any of you tried it? I'm going to gather my favorite spice tea and a naturally light Irish whiskey for one attempt and then get adventurous with some chocolate or something. I will of course let you know how it goes.
I found this nice guide. Anybody have suggestions?



Hangar One used to make a chipotle infused vodka and I absolutely loved it. I guess I was in the minority. They stopped making it a few years ago. I really want to try to make my own : ) I've never done it before either.
Here's your chance!
I made Skittles vodka once but this sounds so much classier. Heehee
I am not above putting candy in booze, not even a little.
It turned out well. Think I found it on Instructables if you wanna try it.
A local bar when I lived in Chicago used to do their own jalapeño infused vodka, which was totally fantastic, but that's literally all I know about infusing booze.
If you already know that
booze + capsaicin = AMAZEBALLS
it's enough. Truly.
I feel like most things are made better with capsaicin. I actually used to do brownies with cayenne powder. People always thought I was crazy but it took cheapo offbrand brownie mix and made the most awesome brownies.
Blue Star makes a Mexican Hot Chocolate cake doughnut with cayenne and dark chocolate. It's the only doughnut I've met that's truly worth the calories.
That sounds fantastic and I'm usually not all that interested in doughnuts.
As long as we are discussing spicy chocolate, Steves Mexica chili chocolate ice cream is amazing.
oh my gosh what. aww, the site that sells it seems to be offline.
They used to sell it at Harmon's but it disappeared. I wonder if they went out of business.
I'm drooling.
I've been known to eat Dove dark chocolate and Hot Tamales together just to get close to that kick. (I do not have a problem.)