Crafting your own homemade liquor infusions is a delicious way to enjoy a variety of flavors using your favorite spirits while skipping the artificial flavors, added colors, and sugar often found in store-bought flavored alcohol.
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Fresh fruit, herbs, and other easy-to-find ingredients make the best liquor infusion ingredients. These infusion ingredients will lend their color to your alcohol of choice, making it naturally flavored and often even prettier than the store-bought counterpart.
By infusing your own liquors, you get to make all the flavor decisions. Want a lightly flavored alcohol? Strain out the fruit or herbs after a day or two. Want a stronger flavor? Let the infusion sit for a few additional days.
Homemade liquor infusions make great gifts! I love creating them for the holidays, then gifting them in a DIY Cocktail Kit.
Homemade Liquor Infusion Recipes
Below are several quick and easy DIY Liquor Infusions to try. All include instructions for the infusion, plus cocktail suggestions for using the liquor. Grab a pint mason jar and let’s get infusing!
Blueberry Infused Vodka
This blueberry vodka is delicious in a cosmopolitan, blueberry vodka lemonade, or in my lavender lemon drop martini.
Lime and Mint Infused Rum
Nothing takes your mojito to the next level like homemade lime and mint infused rum. Try it in a classic mojito cocktail or my blueberry mojito recipe.
Grapefruit Infused Tequila
No juice here, we're using grapefruit peels to create grapefruit infused tequila leaving the grapefruit juice to be used in a Paloma or triple citrus margarita - also great cocktails for using this grapefruit tequila.
Apple Cinnamon Infused Gin
One of my favorite things to sip in the fall is this apple cinnamon infused gin. It's delicious on the rocks with a squeeze of lemon or in a gin and tonic. It's also a key ingredient in my Apple French 75 cocktails.
Strawberry Infused Vodka
Nothing in the stores compares to vodka infused with fresh strawberries. It's the first thing I make after we pick strawberries every summer. I love using it in strawberry vodka lemonade or in place of the raspberry vodka in my peach raspberry martini.
Pumpkin Infused Vodka
This one might seem a little strange, but if you're a fan of herb and vegetal flavors, you have to try pumpkin infused vodka. I use it in my pumpkin pie martini and well as my pumpkin ginger cocktail, perfect for people who don't like (or can't have) cinnamon.
Watermelon Infused Vodka
Homemade watermelon vodka is delicious and refreshing. Pair it up with strawberry simple syrup and club soda for a tasty summer sip.
Cherry Infused Vodka
Make the ultimate summer vodka soda with cherry infused vodka. It's also key ingredient in my easy and delicious Cherry Vodka Sour cocktail.
Peach Infused Bourbon
Bourbon's not thought of as a warm-weather spirit, but peach infused bourbon is perfect for summery cocktails like my Peach Old Fashioned or in a fizzy Bourbon Ginger Cocktail.
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