Anyone tried Skittle Vodka?

Skittle Vodka has to be one of my favorite things of all time.  What you do, is you take a bag of skittles and separate it into colors.  You put the skittles in the bottom of mason jars and fill it with straight vodka.  Then you keep it in the fridge for a week.  Each day you have to shake the jars.  

 

After a week you have to strain out the skittle parts.  We used a very fine strainer, but a coffee filter works too.  When they are strained you are ready to serve!  Its fantastic if you mix it with Sprite or 7-Up.  I wouldn't recommend drinking it straight (although I suppose a shot would be OK) because it is PURE vodka.  

The picture above is the finished product.  When we made this we had a little mis-hap with an ice machine and the orange skittle jar.  We placed the skittle vodka in the freezer instead of the fridge.  Lets just say we had orange skittle vodka ALL over our freezer.  The vodka didn't explode, its more like the ice machine ate the jar.... long story.  

Anyway, highly suggest this as an adult beverage to serve for summer parties. :)

Chocolate Vodka

Honestly, Whisky Fest was so much fun.  Not because it was a drunk fest (for others, not for me), But because I was able to talk to master distillers and owners of the brewers. I talked to an owner or master distiller (still can't remember, sorry) at Grand Traverse Distillery.  They distill whisky and wheat vodka.  I am a huge Vodka fan, so I was very excited to try the vodka.  It was one of the only booths that had vodka at the fest.

I was very intrigues by a dark vodka.  I asked the owner (I'm almost positive it was the owner) what it was, and he explained that it was a chocolate vodka.  He told me that his wife loves Chocolate and she asked him to make a Chocolate Vodka.  He then proceeded to apologize for the appearance of the bottle.  The vodka was bottled in an old wine glass, and had a table that looked like it was printed off a regular office printer.  It was very charming.  The owner told us that the vodka recipe had recently been finalized and the current (and first) batch was recently matured.  There wasn't time to make a proper bottle or label for it, but he wanted to bring it to the fest to see how it fared with the public.  Honestly... I think it was one of the best flavored vodkas ever.

The vodka wasn't sweet; I would say it was more of a cocoa vodka then a chocolate vodka.  It smelled wonderfully like chocolate, and tasted like cocoa (I can't wait for it to get on the shelves so I can mix it with hot chocolate.).  The owner explained that there were several sweet chocolate vodkas, and he didn't want to make one like that.  He said that if you wanted something sweet, there were plenty of things to add as a mixer, but you couldn't take the sweetness away.  And he was 100% right.  C's Dad bought us wonderful sweet chocolate vodka, and it tastes great over ice.  But personally, I think this new one is better.