Enhanced Black Blood
Enhanced Black Blood
1.5 oz vodka
2 oz pomegranate juice
1/4 oz butterfly pea flower simple syrup*
6-7 drops mushroom chai bitters**
*combine ½ c water and ½ c sugar in a small saucepan. Add 1/4c to 1/2c dried butterfly pea flowers. Heat on medium-high until sugar is dissolved, then turn off heat and let it sit covered for a few hours.
**I don’t have an actual recipe for this, I just sort of threw things together to see what would happen. I used a 151 proof spirit and added a 10-mushroom powder blend, cardamom, ginger, clove, cinnamon, coriander, anise, and allspice, and gentian (all dried). I let it infuse for a few weeks, strained it, and bottled it up.
To help get this as dark as possible, I used Blavod black vodka as the base spirit. The pomegranate juice stands in for ghoul’s blood (couldn’t get my hands on any of the real stuff, for some reason). Cranberry juice would also be really tasty in this! I cheated a little bit with the mushrooms and used a blend, but it does include mushroom of life, which I’m using for sewant. Enjoy! xx
