flavoured vodka and other alcoholic drinks

moo2moo

Assuming you have a funnel..... take your piece of kitchen towel, fold in half diagonally then fold in half again. That should leave you with a triangle. Hold the point of the triangle at the bottom. You should have 4 layers at the top. Hold three of these together and place your fingers between the third and 4th layers.Open out and squash flat (like a square) to help keep its shape. Fold back (outwards) the very tips of the 3 layers to keep them from popping open. Line funnel.

RustyFlange

Thankyou moomoo don't have a funnel at the moment but can get one in time for when it needs doing. I saw somewhere about using a piece of kitchen roll and a sieve?

moo2moo

A sieves easy assuming it has very small holes. Simply plonk the kitchen roll in the sieve and pour on the liquid. Don't add too much at once or the kitchen roll will disintegrate, the same will happen if your sieve has big holes. Give it a go and see what happens.

janeym8

our friends make it with jelly babies but you have to wash the white coating off first

janey xxx

Generali

I used to make very good flavoured vodkas:

Take a bottle of vodka and an empty (steralised) vodka bottle.

Get a pack of berries or currents from the supermarket wash them and then heat in a pan until they are good and hot. This kills any bugs/fungii/yeast. Then whizz them to a pulp.

Mix 1 part berries to 2 or 3 parts vodka (depending on how strong you want it) and pour into the bottles. Then put the bottles in the freezer. It tastes fantastic and will knock your socks off. Serve it in frozen shot glasses.

RustyFlange

The sweets have dissolved so today at some point I will try and remove the gunge. I plan to use the seive and do it all slowly. Luckily I have a spare bottle brush still from my little ones bottles so can use this to scrub the inside of the pretty bottle. I was expecting it to be days for the to dissolv e which makes me think I haven't put enough sweets in there so will have to get OH to taste it and then maybe add more.

sarahf191979

RustyFlange wrote: »

I know some of you on here make your own beer/wine/lager etc can anyone give me a little advice. I have started making strawberry vodka tonight (red skittles) already the gunge layer is forming. On the blog I have taken the idea from says about using coffee filters to remove the gunge, then further down the page it mentioned that a single sheet of kitchen roll will be just as good?
Can anyone suggest a good easy way to do this?
I have pics so far of what I have done, and plan to take more throughout the 5 day ish whilst the skittles dissolve?

This sound lovely RustyFlange, any chance of the Link or recipie? Hope you don't ming me asking

RustyFlange

Link is here:http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/msbrackenridge/entry/the_something_random/

I will post some pics later. Just waiting for my son to finish off his dinner then we will remove the gunge

metherer

We use a piece of cheese cloth (Muslin) but as others have said, coffee filters and kitchen roll should work fine too.

We filtered our rhubarb vodka the other day, and it looks great! (pound of fruit, pound of sugar, pint of spirit is our general recipe for any fruity alcohol.)

RustyFlange

Well I used the seive and piece of kitchen roll, it worked perfectly and it is now done. Just need to buy some red curling ribbon and curl some then it can be put away for christmas for my sister.
Pics from start to finish. Excuse my sons mucky face!
Anyway here are some pics. I only made one bottle and only used red skittles.









And finished voddie