Flavoured vodka as homemade presents - any tips?

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Have googled and found various recipes - including bacon vodka (good in a bloody mary?) but would like to hear from any of you who have had success in this department. And also where is the cheapest but not too grim vodka? lidl?

I've never tried this, but some mnetters a couple of months ago were talking about vodka with sweeties dissolved in it.

Bacon vodka!!!!!!!

DP is currently "concocting" raspberry vodka. Basically hes just slung a load of frozen raspberries, that were from garden in the summer, into a demijohn, added a bit of sugar (I think?) and left it.

Hes previously done damson gin, sloe gin etc and tends to use Lidl spirits

Bacon vodka

anyway - this thread had some good tips and great recipes

Am still boggling at bacon vodka

Ah now I remember it was a packet of Opal Fruits or Skittles iirc (but they said not to use the green ones for some reason)

Now I am going to beg you to have a rummage and find me a link Tsar, please please?

Here you go!

Initially the thread is nothing about vodka, but as is always the case with good mn threads, it evolves into something even more interesting at the end. In this case 101 (well a few) ways with vodka!

Cor fanks v much

Only on MN can a rant about Rustlers burgers tranform into a discussion about flavoured vodka

Lol I know!

Actually I remember thinking at the time it might be interesting to try it at Christmas...so I'd beeter get on and get me voddy and Opal Fruits in if I'm gonna do it.

I don't usually even drink vodka. Normally it's gin with me, but I can't see it working with gin somehow!

arf

I have a half bottle of vodka lurking at the back of my cupboard, am wavering between opal fruits and butterscotch

Decisions decisions

thought the bacon suggestion would grab attention and it worked! but there are people out there saying it is delicious and really works...not sure if I want to risk it this near to Xmas. The skittles one seems good - can do one for each skittles colour and have a rainbow....

Cola cube vodka, it's fab.
Bottle of vodka, and about a quarter pound of cola cubes, best left for a few days to a week. Gorgous with lemonade

oohh and Pear Drops work well too! God I fancy a drink now! 20weeks pg though, oh well another cuppa for me

This is fabulous:
Lemongrass vodka
uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/516882

Werthers mints work.

No. Am still about the bacon vodka...

cherry vodka is nice but its a bit past the cherry season now!
Chili vodka is very nice too but don't leave the chilis in too long as it can become undrinkable.
Vanilla Vodka would prob be nice and quite pretty with vanilla pods stuck in it.

ooh cola cubes. - vanilla and cinammon?

My parents used to make copious amounts of strawberry vodka and sloe gin when i was a kid, then they used to give them away as pressies

they would get us to do the leg work by doing pick your own strawberries in the summer and go out walking in the country with big bags to put foraged sloes into in the autumn.

every year we used to go on holiday to france in the car and would come back laden down with cheap vodka and gin ready for making their concoctions.

throughout the year we would have to save nice bottles to pour everything into.

then fruit and alcohol was put together left for a couple of months and then strained and poured into the nice bottles.

home made labels were stuck on and given as pressies.

now I am an parent i think i should start exploiting the labour of my DS soon in this way