When I lived in Portland, my friends and I used to frequent a bar that regularly featured its own infused liquors (hi Florida Room!). Bacon infused vodka. Spiced apple infused burbon. All the good things. The "New Fashioned" (an old fashioned with the apple spice burbon) was my drink, until it was discontinued, then I begged it back into existence before moving from Oregon. Why I've never previously decided to infuse my own vodka is beyond me--maybe a few unpleasant encounters with wet dog-smelling bacon-infusions?
Spoiler: I didn't infuse bacon vodka. I went a traditional route (raspberry) and a little funky (cucumber & green tea). I'll be sharing a recipe with you soon, with a suggestion of how to use the cucumber & green tea vodka--so be on the look-out for that!
I used the A Beautiful Mess girls' "recipe" for vodka infusion. I infused in a large, 1-gallon glass jar, with potato vodka. After infusing (and straining), I put the vodka into the chalkboard mason jars, last seen here. I'm wrapping them up for some very special gifts (but I can't disclose for whom. Sorry!) What's next for infusion? Re-creating the New Fashioned from Portland days of yore? I think it needs to happen.
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