{"id":67,"date":"2011-10-13T11:18:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/?p=67"},"modified":"2011-10-13T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:20:21","slug":"it-has-begun-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"It has begun&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, I must revisit the last post. Hobo wine sucked. Sucked bad. Just&#8230;ewww. Filtering through paper coffee filters takes forEVER!<\/p>\n<p>Now, with that out of the way I was looking in the pantry and saw a lonely bottle full of red liquid and grey fruit hiding in the deepest recesses. Oh right! Raspberry vodka infusion! It&#8217;s only been going for a year (eyeroll). I removed the zombie looking fruits and trasferred the sweet sweet nectar to a plastic (I know, I KNOW!) Barcardi bottle. Why? I need that Svedka bottle for something else. What was that something else?<\/p>\n<p>Coffee infused vodka.<\/p>\n<p>Yes. Being October, I was waaaay late on getting a good infusion for Christmas. Until I found a recipe that would work in 12 hours. Nice! From the Something Awful forums:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For a real quick coffee vodka, you can use the cold-brew method of making coffee, but substitute vodka for the water.<\/p>\n<p>100g medium grind fresh medium-dark coffee, soaked in 750ml of vodka for 12 hours in the fridge, stirred several times during the process, &amp; then filtered through paper coffee filters.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. 12 hours top to bottom.<\/p>\n<p>It makes a really intense coffee vodka concentrate, overpowering if you drink it straight, but it&#8217;s stunning if you mix 50\/50 with ice-cold milk, or Baileys for an even better flavour.<br \/>\nIt would make an excellent addition to cocktails, especially mixed with chocolate liquers, &amp; I imagine it would make an intense espresso martini.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Intense flavor in 12 hours. Right. So, Sunday afternoon I start the infusion. Tuesday night I filtered it. That&#8217;s&#8230;that&#8217;s way more than 12 hours. Way more.<\/p>\n<p>I dipped the tip of my pinkie into the infusion and tasted it. Four hours later I was still tasting it. It was&#8230;foul. It very much needed to be cut. I added more vodka and put it in the pantry to age. I also siphoned off a bit and added sugar syrup for homemade Kahlua. I haven&#8217;t tasted it yet. I&#8217;ll let my resident guinea pig (and ultimate receiver of this concoction) try it out first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I must revisit the last post. Hobo wine sucked. Sucked bad. Just&#8230;ewww. Filtering through paper coffee filters takes forEVER! Now, with that out of the way I was looking in the pantry and saw a lonely bottle full of red liquid and grey fruit hiding in the deepest recesses. Oh right! Raspberry vodka infusion! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/?p=67\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It has begun&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[24,15,23],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Rylh-15","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}