3 olives fruit loop vodka8/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Jackson’s Bar and Oven (135 Fourth St., Santa Rosa, 545-6900) recently featured a whipped cream cocktail called Whip Me Pretty, and has jalapeno-infused vodka for several of its cocktails. At Spoonbar (219 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg, 431-2202), they’re using Bakon (bacon-flavored vodka) in a Bloody Mary. Though Sonoma County’s restaurant bars are more about the “garden to glass” philosophy of fresh ingredients infused into cocktails, a few are playing with flavored vodkas. I can speak from experience that little ones will be more than a little intrigued by mom and dad’s raspberry chocolate whipped cream cocktail, or worse yet, bubble gum shot, so be forewarned. It’s important to remember that vodka can be upwards of 40 percent alcohol, compared to between 5 and 12 percent in most beers and wines. Brands including Pinnacle, Three Olives and Smirnoff play wackier sandboxes, with very sweet, strongly flavored liquor that masks the sting of alcohol - making them go down very easy. There’s little or not sugar, instead, you’ll smell and taste the fruit with the unmistakable kick of vodka. Brands like Absolut, Hangar One, Grey Goose and Charbay are more about the essence. What to drink? It depends what you’re after your glass. ![]() People are really thinking of innovative ways to capture our palates,” said Eischelman. Whether they’re using essential oils and essences to infuse flavors or merely dumping extracts and sugar, the idea of drinking, rather than eating fruit, cereal, cupcakes or bacon have a novelty that’s hard to deny. Needing little more than a splash of soda or juice, flavored vodka cocktails are dessert - or dinner - in a glass, something impressive and fun for guests or a night at home.įood is also an influencer. We’re also drinking out less, and staying in more, according to a Nielsen study in 2011. To get some perspective on just how hot these drinks are, Beam Inc., recently purchased Pinnacle (famous of their whipped cream, cake and cotton candy-flavored vodkas) for $605 million and nearly all the big booze companies have a hand in the market. High-end brands like Grey Goose, Van Gough and Charbay have branched out with haute flavors including green tea, citrus, chocolate and blood orange, while value-priced brands appeal to the sweet tooth with dessert-inspired flavors. Flavored vodkas account for about 20 percent of all vodka sales (which are 32 percent of the entire liquor market), according to the Distilled Spirits Council, worth more than a billion dollars in sales in 2011. If you’ve walked the aisles of BevMo or Bottle Barn (3331 Industrial Dr., Santa Rosa, 528-1161) lately, you’ve likely noticed the boom. If you like, rim your martini glass with some crushed Fruit Loops before pouring in your cocktail.Here are just a few of the flavors we found: Splash of cream/half & half/milk to tasteĬombine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake it up (oooh-oooh)! As a last resort I tried adding some cherry fruit juice I had in the fridge and then…Īhhhhhhhh!!! If Toucan Sam was a boozer, this would be his drink of choice. It didn’t taste at all like Fruit Loops and had that nasty cheap vodka burn. WHY do things smell so good and then taste like CRAP?! Coffee, smelly markers, Loopy vodka. I poured a shot of vodka and a splash of cream into my cocktail shaker with some ice, gave it a quick shake and then went in for the taste test. Mix the vodka with some of the heavy cream I have left from yesterday’s chocolate mousse cake and I should have a drink that tastes just like the leftover milk from a bowl of Fruit Loops. This is going to be so easy, I thought to myself. I cracked it open and the smell of one of my favorite kiddie cereals wafted out. ![]() It’s a rainy day today – perfect for staying in an experimenting with my pretty bottle of vodka. Vodka that tastes like Fruit Loops?! Gimmie, gimmie!!! I was wandering up and down the vodka aisle at the liquor store while my boyfriend changed his mind for the millionth time about what beer he was going to buy and there it was – purple cap, blue, yellow, orange, pink and purple rings and that name – Loopy. The most recent thing to catch my eye was Three Olives Loopy. Slap some colorful artwork or something shiny on a product and I am drawn to it like a kid with ADD. ![]()
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