A few years ago I saw a recipe for Lemon vodka in a food
magazine and decided to try it out, it was very yummy but my friend and I
managed to work our way through it in a scarily short amount of time just
mixing it with orange juice. I always
slightly regretted that I hadn't been a bit more adventurous with it.
More recently I’ve had great fun experimenting with cocktail
ingredients lists and finding the perfect blends for what I’m looking for in an
after work tipple (or even a weekend tipple come to that!). I’ve decided I’m now ready to move on to
being a bit more experimental with the drinks I’m making. I thought I’d better start somewhere fairly
simple so after making a few batches of Skittles vodka as Christmas presents
this year (I’d just moved house and was more than a little bit skint) I decided
to experiment a bit for myself!
Below you will see evidence of such an experiment!
Having had pleasing results with normal skittles at
Christmastime I still thought the ‘recipe’ could be improved upon. I wanted to see if sour skittles might take
the edge of that slightly sickly sweetness that went with the normal skittle
vodka. To make it a totally fair
experiment I took all the purple and red/pink coloured skittles (my personal
favourites) from two small cardboard packs of normal skittles and sour
skittles.
Both my flatmate and I are fond of a cocktail or two but we
aren’t really shot drinking types except under special circumstances but in
order to be totally fair we tried both vodkas in both forms and here are the
results.
For shot drinkers I would recommend the normal skittle vodka
– the sweetness balances out pretty well with the vodka (although the vodka was
still a bit much for me!). The sour
vodka was a bit like drinking apple sours (although obviously this one tasted
like skittles) but had a much stronger taste of vodka – I think it you bothered
to work it out the percentage here would be higher than a normal apple sours. For people who just want a few shots at a
party either one would suffice – if you’re looking for something to drink over
ice you might need to get a bit more fancy.
While the skittle vodka was yummy as a shot it was not
suitable for something to take the edge off a long day of work – too many shots
and I might not make it in the next day.
We tried mixing the normal skittle vodka with lemonade or with lime and
soda but both times it was a bit too sweet.
However this time the sour skittles vodka version was much better, it
took the edge of the sweetness of the lemonade while still tasting of skittle-y
goodness!
If you fancy running your own skittles vodka experiments you
will need only a bottle of vodka (or a pretty bottle and some vodka to put in
it) and a pack of skittles. Depending on
what colour you want your vodka to end up you may need to remove some skittles
(if you put every colour in you may end up with brown vodka) – as I said I
removed all but the red and purple and then ate the rest a cook’s perk.
