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I have been a rum drinker for quite a while. I have usually ran in and picked up my rum at an older local store (small). Recently when going into a local "liquor warehouse" I saw a display of several different vodka flavors. Any body have recipes for flavored vodka??
I don't know what you'd mix them with either. I'm guessing that with the affinity the millenials and younger have for doing shots, that's what they're made for.
I have been a rum drinker for quite a while. I have usually ran in and picked up my rum at an older local store (small). Recently when going into a local "liquor warehouse" I saw a display of several different vodka flavors. Any body have recipes for flavored vodka??
The lemon, lime, and orange flavored stuff has been around for quite a while. A lot of bars will serve them straight as martinis or mixed with some other liqueur or non-alc ingredients. And there are a lot of crazy flavors you see now… Things like cake, cotton candy and even smoked salmon (eww). The recipe for any of those would just be a matter mixing it with something that complements its flavor and doesn't compete with it. Like, for example, I might mix the cake vodka with some heavy cream and make a white russian on roids. Or maybe put the cotton candy in with some hot vanilla drink. Not a lot you can or should do, since it's already ridiculously flavored, mostly for "kids" I think… sort of like the wine cooler of liquor.
There is one recipe I've been working on lately for fun: PumpkinPie Martini
1. Blend up graham crackers w/sugar and cinnamon and coat the glass with it like you would with salt for a margarita (I use olive oil instead of lime juice to make it stick without being sour)
2. Put a shot of pumpkin pie flavored vodka into a shaker, add some whole milk or half/half and a splash of coffee. (you can also use food coloring and pumpkin pie filling to get he flavor/color more accurate)
3. Shake it and pour it into the graham-cracker-crusted glass - the milk should lay foamy on top and the drink should be pumpkin pie colored at this point.
4. Squirt a dollop of whipped cream on top
5. Pour a splash of amaretto over it and stick a chuck of graham cracker into the whipped cream as garnish.
Like I said, it's still a work in progress. I'm usually not into flavored drinks at all, (I prefer beer-flavored beer and whiskey-flavored whiskey) but this was a challenge to me from someone and it's been fun to play around with ingredients to get the drink working just right. It still needs work, so any suggestions are welcome.
I try and use the real ingredients and stay away from the additives for flavor. There are tons of recipes for using the flavored ones though. They are becoming more inventive in the last few years but I remember when I was in high school there were flavors like lemon or lime vodka. Sriracha flavored would go good in Bloody Marys but it is just as easy to infuse your own vodka.
They aren't all "newfangled" nor are they all aimed at millennials.
Many of the vanilla, cream and "cake" flavored vodkas are popular with women over thirty as a basis for a martini or a sweet drink.
On the other end of the taste spectrum, Ukrainian pepper infused vodka has been around for, oh...500 years. You haven't lived until you have made a Bloody using that stuff. No, it's not just "hot" it has real flavor.
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That sounds interesting.
