Green Tea Infused Vodka
 

I dropped a tablespoon of high-quality sencha into a pint of vodka with
3 shiso leaves for about five hours. *Failure*.

The thing is: It tastes like sencha put into hot water and left for 15
minute; bitter, overly tanic, rigid.

I think gyokoro would be a better choice. And I think I'd leave a Tbs
of it in a quart for about 1 hour. Sweeter tea, less infusing.

The shiso did nothing. I'll do it separately in the future and
probably cut lots of teensy strips to maximize the shiso bite.

Green Tea Infused Vodka
 

gtr > wrote:
>
>I dropped a tablespoon of high-quality sencha into a pint of vodka with
>3 shiso leaves for about five hours. *Failure*.
>
>The thing is: It tastes like sencha put into hot water and left for 15
>minute; bitter, overly tanic, rigid.
>
>I think gyokoro would be a better choice. And I think I'd leave a Tbs
>of it in a quart for about 1 hour. Sweeter tea, less infusing.
>
>The shiso did nothing. I'll do it separately in the future and
>probably cut lots of teensy strips to maximize the shiso bite.

When I made my pot of cabbage soup a few days ago it needed raisins
and fresh lemon juice to make it sweet n' sour. Large Sunkist lemons
being a buck each I hated to waste the squeezed rinds so I put them in
a quart jar with my favorite Crystal Palace vodka and placed it in the
freezer. Two days later: DD-Licious!
Sunkist limes are high too, $2/3.

Green Tea Infused Vodka
 

gtr wrote:
>
> I dropped a tablespoon of high-quality sencha into a pint of vodka with
> 3 shiso leaves for about five hours. *Failure*.
>
> The thing is: It tastes like sencha put into hot water and left for 15
> minute; bitter, overly tanic, rigid.

Here's a current pic of gtr. heh heh heh ;-D

http://fotoninja.nl/data/uploads/pos...1347476576.jpg