I made blackberry vodka at the end of last year and completely forgot to tell you how it turned out. For the original post see here, however you might need to wait a few months for the hedgerows to be full of yummy fruit before you can get cracking on your own.
So, I filled a wine bottle and an old Jack Daniels (my fave tipple) bottle with blackberries, sugar and vodka in the autumn of 2009. In December I decanted the two bottles and filled one 70cl wine bottle (and a bit more left over) with the filtered blackberry flavoured vodka.
And the verdict is – delicious! Quite sweet but definitely blackberry flavoured with a hint of alcohol taste when it's drunk neat. Mix it with lemonade or soda water and the alcohol taste disappears entirely, meaning you could drink it by the pintful, quite dangerous! Apologies for the ropey photo, I'm not a big daytime vodka drinker and I've yet to discover how to take quality photos in artificial light.
I'll be making another, probably bigger, batch this autumn and I heartily suggest you do the same. Cheers!
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