Summer Trip 2019 - Day 5 - Bellevue Botanical Garden and Woodinville Whiskey

August 17, 2019

a variant on a white russian

June 16, 2019

My dear wife is not much of a drinker, she does not like the flavor or many things, so sometimes we take that as the benefit to me that it is. So the normal white Russian is:

5 parts vodka
2 parts coffee liquor
3 parts cream / 5 parts milk

I altered this a bit by cutting the vodka to 2 parts and adding 5 parts chocolate milk. Some references call this a dirty Russian, but I see references to vodka and eggnog for that. So a Chocolate Russian? Mocha Russian? I don’t like the reference of dirty, that seems like a call back to a martini and olives

2 parts vodka
2 parts Coffee Liquor
5 parts chocolate milk

Also it might be me, but I’m not as much of a fan of the white russian as I used to be…maybe my avoidance of sugar?

12 Beers of Christmas

December 30, 2018

Smaller attendance then previous years, variety obtained and presented. It was an interesting set. At one point we decided we were done and called it a night.

The order:

The Fallen

Mint Vodka & Vanila Vodka

December 16, 2018

Vanilla Vodka

So I put in the vanilla and vodka in the back of the fridge on 11/10/2018 and took it out on 12/1/2018 (21 days). I had intended to give a sip every week to see if I can figure out what was close to the ideal wait time. I suppose with vegetable matter, there will always be a bit of inconsistency, but getting a window would be nice. After 21 days it had a fairly strong vanilla flavor, but less then a vanilla bean. The beans went in there unmolested for the most part, and were a bit old. As it stands, 25g of Vanilla beans + ~32 oz of Vodka + 21 days.

Chocolate Mint Vodka

I picked up a bit of dried Chocolate Mint from Wabi Sabi. I think I had originally intended to do something else with it, but ended up forgetting what I had planned for it, so this seemed like a reasonable choice. I had did about the same thing as above, but 10 grams of dried mint is a lot more. This gave a bit of a mellow flavor. Something that would probably need to have quite a bit for a flavor, or create an undertone in a drink. But not something that is MINTY. I would be curious on the varietals vs flavor. I should also probably do more research on the alcohol soluble flavors in various vegetation. As it stands 10g Dried Chocolate Mint (includes stems) + ~32oz Vodka + 21 days.