And congratulations on second place! I’ll need a paradigm shift to start working with those sorts of ingredients and flavors, but I am impressed by your creativity. Nicely done!

Dave

My favorite thing to do with vodka? Make drinks for my lovely wife. While I am trying to bring her around to more civilized beverages (HA!), it is easy to make her vodka based drinks, since I don’t have to balance against other flavors (as you mentioned). Once I have a little more experience under my belt, that will become less of an issue, but until then, vodka will be a necessary evil in my up-and-coming bar.

For me personally, though, I am looking forward to making some vodka cherry bombs, and perhaps trying to infuse some vodka on my own, if I can find a brand that would be a good base without being too expensive. I need a little more vanilla in my life, so that is probably what I’ll start out with. My son, the budding chemist/mad scientist is also looking forward to help dear ol’ dad with his first few infusions.

Dave

Watch it sit on the shelf looking lonely as I reach for a bottle of rum or tequila.