Cranberry Bourbon Chiller

  
This Cranberry Bourbon Chiller is a fun refreshing drink loaded with Christmas season flavors such as cloves, orange peel and cranberry! 

Have you seen all the different flavors of alcohol on the market?   There are so many different choices out there and if you are like us, we are constantly looking to try something new and serve something new. We love entertaining around the holidays and we wish to serve our guests something different, something they have never tried before or something that will stand out in a crowd.   

We have purchased several bottles of different flavored vodkas in the past for instance and even though we like them, we still have bottles and bottles of flavored vodka and they are pricey.  I knew there had to be a better way to shake up our cocktail selection without running a big bill at the beverage counter.     

Quite a few years ago I started infusing alcohol with certain flavors, I made a spicy vodka for Bloody Mary’s that will knock your socks off, for instance.   And remembering those amazing Bloody Mary’s, I decided to experiment with other alcohol.    I’ve always associated bourbon with a fire in the fireplace, you know sipping on two fingers of straight bourbon next to a roaring fire and looking out over snow covered fields.   Such a cozy warm feeling, legs extending to the fire, toes all warm and that little sip that spreads warmth all the way down to your tummy.  Oh yes!    

So for the winter holiday parties, I decided to shake it up a bit and infuse some bourbon, I used Jim Beam, a middle of the road bourbon that is milder and is very open to infusions.  And I needed a spice but I couldn’t use powdered spices.   I went to my spice cabinet and pulled out the only two spices, that I buy whole, nutmeg and cloves.   Nutmeg might be ok, probably will try it someday but those little cloves are the direction I’m going today.  I remembered when as a child, we would push cloves into an orange and hang the flavored orange on the tree at Christmas.   And remembering trees, I thought of strings of cranberries.  Yay!    So these three flavors are Christmas to me and along with some bourbon, this just has to be a great Christmasy beverage.    

This infusion takes just a few minutes to prepare but it does need some time to infuse so start it about a week before your dinner party.       

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