There’s a massive display of Deep Eddy Orange vodka in front of me at this bar. Trying to think what you’d mix with it for a good cocktail. Vodka/Soda jumps to mind. I could also see it being mixed with cranberry and you’d get a cocktail similar to the Madras.
Any other ideas?
You know, I used to mix Vodka and OJ. It was a great drink. Never got hangovers if I only drank screwdrivers.
Can’t drink them any more, the acid in the OJ is too much for me.
Vodka/OJ was my go to in college for a while. I switched to drinking cranberry juice (with and without alcohol) around my senior year
I’m mainly a wine drinker but when it comes to hard liquor, vodka is my main go-to. I’ll generally have it as a vodka martini, a Caesar, or with a “vodka ice” spritzer that is basically a lightly citrus flavoured carbonated vodka mix. The vodka ice thing is good in hot weather, where it competes with gin & tonic as the ideal beverage.
For those reasons, frankly I see little use for orange flavoured vodka. The only thing I can imagine doing with it is having it straight over ice. I mean, if you like screwdrivers, then vodka and fresh orange juice with an orange slice is a fine drink, but I’d use good quality plain vodka to make it, like Absolut. On occasion Absolut has included little samplers of flavoured vodkas with their full-size bottles, so I have samplers of lime, grapefruit, and apple vodkas (never saw the orange, though). I wouldn’t actually buy any of them, but as long as they’re free, I’ll occasionally pour one over ice, which is the same as I’d do with the orange vodka.
I’ve recently been getting the same way about Caesars. I used to really love them and especially enjoyed them on the spicy side, but in recent years the spice and acid has been getting a bit much.
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Tonic, at least that’s what I’d use. Vodka Tonics are great and a bit of orange will work just fine.
I used to love drinking Pearl Persephone Pomegranate vodka with tonic.
I’d put the bottle in the freezer and enjoy sipping it over ice.
That’s a weird one though… most drinks with orange either use orange juice, triple sec or orange curacao.
I imagine you could use it in a margarita in place of the triple sec, and add a bit more sugar/simple syrup to taste, but that’s just substituting it for triple sec.
I’d think anything you’d use lemon/citron vodka for could be done with orange vodka- like a lemon drop, just with orange vodka and orange juice.
Maybe in sangria as a bit of a booster as well?
It’s a shame they color it orange. It would be a lot more versatile if it were clear.
I wonder if just soaking orange slices or supremes in it would be any good.
I infused some kumquats for a couple of weeks in neutral spirits; worked fine.
I was in a bar a couple of years ago and I saw a bottle of bubble-gum flavored vodka behind the bar.
I am not joking, sadly.
WTF? Is this place straight-up saying they serve underage drinkers?
I can’t speak for that brand. But I can say that Hangar 1 orange vodka made the best vodka and tonic I’ve ever had.
Kind of an aside, but I recently found out that Angostura makes an orange bitters that goes well in a lot of beverages. It really perks up a martini, and I use it in scotch as well.
That’s not the half of it.
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I shudder to think of what “root beer float” vodka might taste like.
I have never understood the whole point of flavored vodkas. Is it for taking shots?
Most other mixological uses are almost certainly better done using the real thing or a liqueur made from that- why use lime vodka if you can just use lime juice and regular vodka? Or use triple sec/curacao instead of orange vodka?
I keep vodka (flavored or plain) in the freezer. I pour some in a glass over ice and sip it.
It is a Ukrainian (for instance) thing:
Then again, for real drinking, Taras Bulba said,
TGI Friday’s Orange Dream , is a good substitute for milk when paired with orange-vanilla ice cream in a 'milk’shake.
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