I first discovered raspberry vodka a few years back whilst running a pub. It was Absolut Raspberry and as with everything that is new it had an initial surge of popularity that then curbed and evened out. It wasn’t just a flash in the pan; we kept it in stock and a few regulars that drank it with lemonade (that’s 7-up style lemonade). It was also a handy ingredient to use in shooter and cocktail recipes.
As mentioned, Absolut Raspberry and fizzy lemonade like 7-up or Sprite is a simple combination that works well.
Fresh lime and soda. Squeeze a wedge of lime into your drink or just drop a wedge right in if you want just a hint of lime.
Cranberry juice and lemonade
Cranberry juice and orange juice
If you like your drinks extra sweet add a dash of grenadine to the mix.
Yield: Using 135 g of jelly will produce 600 ml of liquid so depending on your shot glass size you should get about 20 shots (30 ml per shot). One packet of Jell-O is 3 oz which is 85 g so scale up or down as required.
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How about making your own raspberry vodka? It’s very easy and simply requires adding a load of raspberries to a bottle of vodka and leaving it for a few days or longer (the longer the better). You will need to remove some of the vodka to make room for the raspberries. If you use frozen raspberries the vodka will turn redder. You can either use the raspberry infused vodka with the raspberries and bits left in or strain the vodka and eat the raspberries separately as I tasty, boozy snack.
You could infuse vodka with both raspberries and blueberries. Frozen blueberries (pictured right) will have the most effect on the colour of the vodka. Blueberries will also come out of the vodka bottle more readily. Unless you chop or crush up your raspberries you may need a bit of digging and jigging to pull them all out of the neck of the bottle. Crushing them will result in a far stronger infusion. It depends on whether your want the visual effect of whole pieces of fruit in the vodka with just a hint of flavour or a stronger, infused taste and a mushy mash of fruit pulp.
Raspberry vodka (30 ml or 1 oz) and mountain dew (90 ml or 3 oz)
Berry chocolate deliciousness.
Raspberry vodka (15 ml or 1/2 oz), white crème de cacao (30 m l or 1 oz) and blackberry liqueur (15 m l or 1/2 oz).
Raspberry vodka (30 ml or 1 oz), raspberry liqueur (15 ml or 1/2 oz), summer fruits fizzy pop (60 ml or 2 oz).
Absolut Raspberri
www.absolut.com/uk/products/absolut-raspberri
Smirnoff Raspberry
www.smirnoff.com/en-us/vodka/smirnoff-raspberry
Skyy Infusions Raspberry Vodka
Stolichnaya Raspberry Vodka
Infused raspberry vodka rather than just flavouring.
www.stoli.com/product/#stoli-razberi
Svedka Raspberry Vodka
svedka.com/splash/#!/flavors/raspberry
UV Blue
Naturally flavoured with vine ripened raspberries.
Vincent Van Gosh Raspberry Vodka
This is both a popular and potent classic cocktail with vodka being just one of 5 spirits that make up the toxic mix of alcohol.
Warming heat of vodka plus silky smooth chocolate equals heavenly, boozy simplicity in a glass.
A strawberry summer slush is the perfect concoction to chill you out in the heat of the sun whilst relaxing on a beach somewhere exotic! Or if you don't happen to be sunning yourself in a picture perfect, sun-drenched location then you can enjoy the drink whilst daydreaming about your next jaunt!
Vodka and Ice Tea and Iced Tea Vodka are two very different things. One is basically a cocktail while the other is a vodka infusion. Really the latter is just tea flavoured vodka that has been either artificially flavoured or infused using tea leaves. Brands of tea flavoured vodka are detailed below.
This flirtatious cocktail adds a bubbly, pineapple twist to a Cosmopolitan. If you are feeling frugal switch the champagne for a Prosecco (arguably a more palatable fizz at a fraction of the cost).
This cocktail is pure indulgence in a glass. In fact it is so scrummy and filling that it could easily be a desert. If you like your cocktails thick, creamy and chocolaty then a frozen mudslide is definitely a winner!
Vodka is a neutral spirit that tends not to have a distinctive flavour or taste in its untampered form. Vodka is generally not aged and can be made using a range of accessible materials and ingredients such as potatoes, grains, sugars, fruit and most things that are capable of being fermented. This makes it a spirit that is easy to produce in a relatively short space of time.
From the makers of Tyrrell’s comes Chase Vodka! Perhaps wondering what to do with an excess of potatoes one day they set about cooking it up into alcohol and thank goodness they did!
Blavod: 80% proof, neutral grain vodka.
The distinguishing feature of Blavod vodka is that it is black. It isn’t unique in its blackness as there are now a few copycats but it is definitely the most well-known brand of black vodka and claims to be the only ‘premium black vodka on the market’.
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