The first experiments.

Well, it's been about 12 hours since I began my infusions (only 324 to go!), and I thought I'd blog about it.

Anyway, I stole the idea from the guys at Infusions of Grandeur, and I chose to do their very first two experiments: cinnamon and apple. The fact that these were their very first is purely coincidental, and I really just chose them because a third party suggests that the apple is

"the most dangerous brew of them all. I could not tell that this is alcoholic. There's a tartness there, but it's like a very light cider, beautiful and high at the tip of your tongue that fades gently to a shimmer of apple that resonates around your entire mouth. You could drink a whole glass of this and never know that it contained a drop of alcohol up until your brain stopped working."

But then, when you mix the two together,

"This smells like strudel filling," Karla says. "This is heaven in a plastic cup. This - is dangerous." It's like drinking pie - glorious, liquid pie. Everyone stands around, shell-shocked by the perfect beauty that has just exploded wetly across their throat as they down the apple and cinnamon vodka."

Needless to say, I must have this.

I also made a fifth of honey vodka, which is beyond amazing. There's really no hint of vodka. There is maybe a slight taste of vodka barely on the back end, but it comes and goes in less than a second. I really see no need to ever drink anything else (until the apple and cinnamon are done!).

Photos make everything easier to understand, so here they go.


You can see the apples are starting to brown, as expected. I'll be changing the apple out every three days, as the guys at IOG suggest makes for the best result.


The cinnamon is already showing some color, which is exciting, and research shows that it will become much darker as time passes. Given that Goldschlager is one of my very favorite alcohols, I could not be more excited about this one.


I really can't say how awesome the Honey vodka is. It's just... holy crap. Given that this takes very little time to procure, it's something everybody should keep in their stock at all times.

And for those of you wondering, yes those are de-labled Burnett's bottles. And yes I'm using Burnett's vodka. At $12.49 for 1.75L, all of these vodkas are $0.21 per shot. You can't really beat that. ...Actually you can, if you buy even lower quality vodka and run it through a Brita filter about 5 times, as the guys at IOG do. To each his own.