In Randini's spirit of Beer Spamming, I thought you all needed this email agian. No, really, I got click happy and accidentally deleted it from the HOPS website. So sorry, but here it is again...for POSTerity.
For those of you who braved the last HOPS meeting during the holiday and Apres Ski traffic, you were rewarded with a diverse tasting of Winter Ales and Seasonals. In the spirit of the season, I brought the last bottle of my first batch of Kahlua. It was a big hit, and I sent several people home with the recipe. This recipe was given to me by my dear friend Carolyn who believes a Kahlua nightcap need not brank the bank or have to be reserved for a special occasion, and has been tweaking this recipe:
In a large, open crock pot cook on high for 3 hrs. stirring occasionally:
2 cups White Sugar
3 cups of Brown Sugar
3/4 cup of Instant Coffee (like Folgers)
6 cups of water
optional 2 Tablespoons of Hershey's Syrup
Cool and add:
2 Tablespoons of vanilla
51.2 oz 'cheap' vodka or whiskey/vodka combo
Drink, bottle or age. Enjoy!
For the batch we sampled in December I used all organic ingredients (except for the booze), which I believe I bottled in October. I did not use the Hershey Syrup, but did use 1 750ml bottle of Sky Vodka and 1 750ml of Bushmill's Irish Whiskey. They really were some of the 'cheapest' liquors in the store! Experiment with your own batch, and have fun with it. I used some of my batch to make a deliciously moist chocolate Kahlua cake which was so good, we never made the icing before the cake was gone.