How to Make "Hot Vodka" for Bloody Marys
The Bloody Mary is a classic cocktail that many people enjoy for brunch or during happy hour. Typically, "Mary's" are made with tomato juice, vodka, Tabasco sauce and perhaps other ingredients such as Worcestershire sauce and lime juice. But you can skip the hot sauce if you make a simple tincture with vodka and hot chile peppers, and you can make it as hot or as mild as you like it! Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Glass jar or bottle with fitting lid
- Tomato juice or mixed vegetable juice
- Vodka
- Hot chile pepper(s)
- Lime juice
- Worcestershire sauce
- Tall glasses
- Ice
Instructions
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Choose fresh hot peppers if you can find them. If they're not available, you can use dried peppers, but the hot vodka might take a little longer to become hot with dried peppers. You can use the small Thai peppers, jalapeno, serrano or other types available.
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Depending on the "hotness" you want, place one to four peppers in a one-pint glass container with a lid.
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Fill your container with vodka and cap tightly.
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Allow your vodka-pepper brew to sit in a place that does not get direct sun for at least two days.
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After two days, taste-test your blend to see if it has the spiciness you want. You can leave the peppers in the liquid and it will continue to become hotter the longer you let it sit.
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To make your cocktail, pour off one ounce of the hot vodka for each drink. Add a dash of Worcestershire sauce, a squirt of lime juice, and then fill the glass with ice, tomato juice or vegetable cocktail. Enjoy!
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Tips & Warnings
This hot vodka tincture "matures" in just two to three days, unlike other herbal tinctures that require four weeks or more to steep.
Attractive bottles with snap-on tops, such as fancy beer bottles, work especially well for this concoction.
When your supply of hot vodka gets low, you can add more vodka to your tincture bottle without adding more peppers. The old peppers will spice up the fresh vodka. After two or three additions of fresh vodka, add fresh chile pepper(s).
Don't use too many hot chiles! They will make your vodka very hot very fast.
