Have you ever thought of making the straight vodka more funny and attractive by yourself? If yes you felt the right en vogue trend then! It’s the right time to (add the) flavor to your favorite drink!
How about creating the Skittles vodka “rainbow” collection?
Well if you find this idea good enough, so there is below what you need –
- several Skittles packs, minimum 0,5 kilo (kg) of total weight or just one 1- pound bag
- one 1,75-2 l bottle of vodka, (better the mid-level by price and quality, ‘cause there’s no need to use Kauffmann or Jean-Marc products 
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- five small (0,25 l) glass bottles or flasks (the transparent material gives you the better view of the coloured liquid)
- 5 plastic (0,33 l) water bottles (empty)
- bowls or soup plates for Skittles candies
- a measuring cup
- a funnel
- paper towels or filters for coffee-machine
In case you are going to deal with bottles and flasks of different sizes, so here’s a hint for infusion – it basically needs 60 candies and 0,17 l of pure vodka to work out (generate, produce) 0,23 l of new product.
Make sure to have enough space for your operations and take care to protect it from mess and slush.
Stage 1 – Divide the Skittles
Group the candies according their colours and flovours.
As you remember you will need not less than 60 pieces of each flavours.
Stage 2 – Prepare the infusion set
Get ready your plastic bottles for infusion
Pour approx. 170 – 200 g of vodka in each bottle. Don’t worry about accuracy – it will be not difficult to correct the amount later on.
Stage 3 – Add the Skittles
Upload (bulk) the candies of each colour to the selected bottle.
Sure you can use the funnel for this operation, but in order not to mix the flavoures you’d better do it with your own hands. Plastic quickly catches and holds flavors and odors for a long time.
Stage 4 – Shake, twist and rock-n-roll !
Here comes the moment for physical exercises! Shake, jiggle and joggle all of your bottles with a proper portion of your strength.
The fact is that the coloured sweet coating of Skittles goes off in vodka rapidly, but the white cores take much more time to be dissolved. After first shake the bottles can stand still for a couple of hours. Then you can repeat the procedure 1-2 times more. Normally all Skittles’’ essence dissolves by the morning next day.
But you’ll see the unpleasant white foam at the surface of the drink. Please don’t worry, you’ll be taught to get rid of it in the Step 6. –
Stage 5 – Filtration
To clean out the white scum (foam, gunk) you can use paper towel, wipes or coffee filters. It’s up to you, but according the experience the coffee filters work as best tool.
First, place the funnel into the measuring cup. Then cover the funnel with 3-4 lays of filters. Then pour carefully approx. the quarter of liquid onto the filters. Wait until it all drops through and pour another portion. Repeat this manipulations until all content is transferred into the cup. If the white scum still exists just remove it with the spoon. Mind that the orange and green Skittles require more filtration than the others flavoures. But with one additional filter this problem is gone.
Well if you did everything properly, you could yield 0,23-0,24 l of Skittle infused vodka as a result of your efforts.
The filters go the waste basket and funnel is to wash for the next re-use.
Take the clean glass flask, place the washed funnel in its neck and pour your flavoured “spirit” inside. If you might notice than the drink is a little bit thick, you can either re-filter it or dilute with small amount of vodka.
Do the same procedure with each Skittles flavor.
This picture shows how much gunk the filter wipes out:
Stage 6 - Freeze and enjoy!
Finally you’ve got all 5 bottles of your own proud – Skitlles flavoured vodka!
For excellent taste put them into freezer for 2-3 hours or in the fridge for overnight.
And…… here we have the kingpin of the party –
Now you or your guests have a wide choice – drink it straight or make cocktail mixtures! All saturated (fizzy) sweet beverages will do – 7up, Sprite, Coca-Cola (diet cola cuts the sweetness a little), fruit juices (for those who like sweetness). Ginger ale is also very good ingredient!
A chilled Martini wineglass with home-made skittles vodka served in, could help to start the new experience in your life!
So bottoms up! 