Loki and other Liquers

[Lady Kett]

so kett, you had some of what I made over the weekend - I did not think it was too bad for the first go

Most yummy! A little on the sweet side for me (until we mixed it with strawberry gatorade LOL) but the prodigal daughter, now legal (sigh) loved it!

[Lady Kett]

take your pumpkin flavor, a smidge of butter flavor, and a cloth tea bag full of whole spices (whatever you use in punky pie) boil till the spices are fragrant.

add in sugar (brown sugar adds a nice hint of molasses) stir till sugar dissolves, then shut off heat and add your EC. Bottle, let age, and enjoy!

While on a search for something buttery, I stumbled upon this...Monin Pumpkin Spice Syrup. Think that might work? I cook less than I sew so am desparately trying to keep this simple!

[Magister]

I have a challenge for all you mixologists out there. 

A few mates and I have been trying to figure out just what to combine to get a close to accurate Snickerdoodle flavoured cordial / loki.

For those that don't know, snickerdoodles are sugar cookies made with cream of tartar and rolled in cinnamon.  Search snickerdoodle, you'll find them.

...

To just put it out there, I've found the few mixed drinks, and snickerdoodle martini recipes out on the interwebs.  Although not bad tasting, not exactly accurate. 

So who will step up?

[Blue66669]

take your pumpkin flavor, a smidge of butter flavor, and a cloth tea bag full of whole spices (whatever you use in punky pie) boil till the spices are fragrant.

add in sugar (brown sugar adds a nice hint of molasses) stir till sugar dissolves, then shut off heat and add your EC. Bottle, let age, and enjoy!

While on a search for something buttery, I stumbled upon this...Monin Pumpkin Spice Syrup. Think that might work? I cook less than I sew so am desparately trying to keep this simple!

I've tried that flavor. It's.... intense. I know Torani makes a pumpkin pie flavor that is MUCH tastier.

[Lady Kett]

I've tried that flavor. It's.... intense. I know Torani makes a pumpkin pie flavor that is MUCH tastier.

As in this, Mistress Blue?

[ever in search of tasty pumpkin pie flavors to mix with alcohol!]

[Blue66669]

Thaaat would be the stuff! Good on ya!

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

I have a challenge for all you mixologists out there. 

A few mates and I have been trying to figure out just what to combine to get a close to accurate Snickerdoodle flavoured cordial / loki.

For those that don't know, snickerdoodles are sugar cookies made with cream of tartar and rolled in cinnamon.  Search snickerdoodle, you'll find them.

...

To just put it out there, I've found the few mixed drinks, and snickerdoodle martini recipes out on the interwebs.  Although not bad tasting, not exactly accurate. 

So who will step up?

Might be a project for Nasty & I next year... it would go with our banana pudding and death by chocolate...

[Lady Kett]

So if you haven't figured it out, I have no patience, so the whole "let it stew" (or whatever) for a few weeks is not in my personality.

Today's experiments, with the newly arrived Torani Pumpkin Pie syrup are:

1) Vodka + Syrup - way too strong with the kick from the Vodka and way too sweet with the syrup. Could NOT find the right balance
2) The darling daughter (freshly 21) says, hey! Try that Cap'n Morgans with it. At first I was like, EWWW! Nasty. But since it was such an interesting day (sarcasm intended) at work, I thought what the heck... and OMG that stuff is fantastic! I will have to try and figure out the perfect proportions but my haphazard "pour it in a glass and try it" method was YUMMY!

[Taarna]

If the pumpkin pie was a cream based loki that you tasted last year it was mine. I will have it out there again this year but I am still undecided if I will be out there opening weekend yet, or what weekends I might be able to make it.

We have a few new flavors this year, but the pumkin pie and the Milky Way Galaxy are always requested. 

[kilteddispatcher]

Okay, just bottled my first loki... used raw sugar, vanilla extract, Torani's 'almond roca' syrup, and nutmeg.... If it mellows out even a tiny bit it's going with me friday to the Blackhawk Halloween Ball....

Tomorrow's is going to be the raw sugar again, with Torani's pumkin spice syrup, a heavy steeping of mulling spices, a hint of vanilla extract to kill the everclear, and some cinnamon aftershock for added chutzpah...

So many more ideas than places to store the moonshine... lol...

[Sabrina Black]

I'm very tempted to try making loki, but I'm curious about how long it will last after it's made?  I know it has to sit for several months, but after that, is there an expiration?

[kilteddispatcher]

Don't quote me on this, but given the strength of the everclear, unless you u use a high concentration of very perishable flavoring (fruits, cream, etc) I se  e no reason it shouldn't last for quite some time...

[Sabrina Black]

Cool, thanks

[Penny Parlay]

In preparation for Sherwood, I've been fiddling with making Loki for the first time.  I've had some hits and misses.  I'm trying to duplicate the chocolate covered cherry that Blushing had at TRF and I just do not like the Torani flavored chocolate syrup.  I was wondering if anybody had tried using plain ol Hershey's chocolate syrup in it, and if it was a hit or a miss?  Or just a plain bad idea?

Thanks   

[Blue66669]

OOOO NO CHOC SYRUP!!!! That stuff will wind up separating and settling to the bottom of the bottle.