A couple of weeks ago, I decided to infuse some vodka with fresh ingredients!
Infusing vodka is easy - similar to olive oil. I'll show you:
I infused vodka with 4 ingredients this time: grapefruit, mint, orange, and blueberry. If you are using citrus (like grapefruit or orange) use the peel of the fruit to infuse flavor. For the mint and blueberry, I just chopped them up. Place the ingredients into a jar that you can tightly seal.
Pour the vodka over the ingredients.
Tightly cover the jars and place them in cool, dark place for at least a week. I let these jars sit 2 weeks.
As you can see, the flavors (and colors!) have mixed with the vodka and smell delicious!
Strain the ingredients out of the vodka.
Now your vodka is packed with flavor and ready to use in your next cocktail.
I picked up these bottles at craft store on clearance, and the labels from The Plaid Barn (my latest daily deal obsession for crafts). They're corked up and ready to go - add a little fizzy water and a splash of lime!
First I wanna say…..I just love your site!!! So a question? I read on your citrus salt post that you made infused vokda as a gift and infused it like 7 times. I then clicked on the link to see how it is done and you didn’t mention infusing it more than one time. Could you explain a little more in depth cause I’m a newbie on this infusion thing. I would LOVE, LOVE LOVE for you to do a post on Lemoncillo exuse spelling. I have some Meyer lemons that are on the tree and there will be an bundance soon.
Hi Jeanne!
That’s not a silly question! What I meant in the citrus salt post was that I put filtered my vodka a bunch because it was so cheap and low quality. This meant I put the vodka through a fresh Brita filter, not anything to do with infusing with ingredients.
I can totally do a limoncello post! It’s so easy 🙂
Thanks for writing!