Chilli vodka

I prefer to add some other hottest pepper from this list. Can I ask why my comment isn't visible?

This is great - though obviously depends on the type quantity of chillies you use. I wanted something with quite a kick for someone who has extreme chilli tolerance levels I used 4 Thai chillies, sliced lengthways down the centre, to a litre of vodka. The heat and a nice chilli flavour was apparent after a couple of hours. I left it overnight before straining, and have a hot, but not unbearable,drink that would be great as a shot, or make a perfect Bloody Mary base. As I'm giving it as a gift - I'll add whole chilli for decoration later on, as I suspect the heat will continue rising the longer it's in the bottle.

Made this last Christmas as a gift for various friends. Unfortunately the vodka was ridiculously spicy even though I had it marinating for less time than stated and was only in the cupboard a week before gifting. I used green chillies instead of red, though they weren't very hot ones... I'm not sure what went wrong really! The feedback I had was that it was too hot to drink pleasantly, but did make a good forfeit in christmas or drinking games! It didn't matter too much really, but now my friends are rather wary of my homemade gifts. Going to try the christmas cream liqueur from here this year, I really hope that one can't go wrong!

Made this last year for presents for a couple of friends that are chilli mad! They both loved it! However, one friend commented it does get hotter with time (over months, not days!)... don't know if this is due to the whole chilli in the bottle or whether that just happens anyway. Will be making again this year for sure :)

Does anyone know if you can do this with green instead of red chillies? Will it affect the flavour? I have red to pop in the bottles to decorate but my local tesco only had mixed bags of chillies so I have a load of green to use up, and I'd like to use them for this.

Can anyone help me, I'm trying to figure out if its too early to do these for christmas?

This is a simple and great recipe. I made mine in a jug - easier for the chillis and for pouring. We used it in Bloody Marys.

Made this for New Year, using two fat red chillis including the seeds, leaving them soaking for about 4 hours. Perfect hit of chilli but not so hot you couldn't drink it. Stored it in the freezer so it went nice and syrupy. If you like chillis it's very good indeed.

Tip- dont add 2 dried habaneros and a piri piri and leave for 7 hours.... one chilli would have done. Its like drinking fire- hot but really good. Even better in a chilli bloody mary. No Tabasco needed!

Ive just added 2 dried habeneros and a dried piri-piri chilli to a bottle of vodka... aiming to serve as super hot bloody mary's or just firey vodka shots... have i gone overboard?