Instructions
1. Gather your ingredients. To infuse vodka, flavored vodka you just need any flavor you want. By choosing vodka, make sure you choose a good quality vodka has been distilled. Do not use rye or potato vodka, which are more difficult to infuse.
2. Gather your supplies. You need a mixing spoon and a container tall cylindrical glass, preferably a jar with a drain cover and an easy peak posterior distribution.
3. Clean your ingredients. If you are using fresh fruit or other plant based additives such as vanilla and star anise, you should make sure they are clean. Rinse all fruits with clean water and dry before use. If you're using orange peel remember for the first time the skin will cause the bitter taste of vodka.
4. Put ingredients into the jar first infusion, then fill the jar with vodka. Make sure you put the solid ingredients in the first else it may float on the top and infuse the vodka unevenly.
5. Seal the jar with tight fitting lid and put the jar in the refrigerator or somewhere away from sunlight. Allow the ingredients to infuse the vodka with flavor.
Depending on their ingredients, the infusion time will be different:
a. 3 to 4 days: Vanilla beans, citrus, mint, garlic, tarragon, basil, oregano, dill and thyme
b. About a week: softer berries (such as blackberries, raspberries and strawberries), melonsand peaches
c. Around 2 weeks: chile, pineapple, ginger, lemongrass and other ingredientsdelicately flavored
6. Then taste your vodka when you think you might be ready. If not as an infusion, as you think it should be, leave to infuse for longer period of time.
