Chase marmalade vodka - any cocktail ideas?
Chase marmalade vodka - any cocktail ideas?
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Mobile Chicane

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21,976 posts

240 months

Thursday 19th April 2012
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I've been given a bottle of this and to be honest am really not feeling the love - it tastes 'chemical' and sickly sweet.

However, since an old Estonian proverb says "rather a word from the Bible be lost, than a drop of alcohol be wasted", I am not about to throw it out.

Any ideas for cocktails I could use it in?

TVMIA beer

Wadeski

8,998 posts

241 months

Thursday 19th April 2012
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kill it with fruit.

try mixing with cranberry juice and a dash of peach schnapps. will be sweet, fruity and girly as anything but will probably slip down better than neat.

similarly, everything tastes nice with ginger beer / ginger ale. try with either and add a dash of bitters, squeeze of lemon.


isaduck

512 posts

245 months

Thursday 19th April 2012
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Never had it, but can you plonk it in a sauce & cut the sweetness with something acid. Green mango? Tamarind? With a duck breast?

SVX

2,188 posts

239 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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I was going to suggest bitters, but how about Campari and cranberry?

paulmurr

4,203 posts

240 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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I really like it over ice, but if you're not feeling it then maybe some kind of martini would be my first thought. Marmalade vodka cut with some regular vodka, a splash of orange juice and shake with ice.

Lets call it the Paddington.

Dr G

15,940 posts

270 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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I'll drink it for you smile

Mobile Chicane

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21,976 posts

240 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Thanks for the ideas. I like the ginger / bitters approaches.

I may pimp up the ginger with some fresh squeezed ginger juice, as I think it will need to be very gingery indeed to match that sickly orange taste!

I really expected to like this as I love Santa Theresa orange liqueur, Cointreau and Triple Sec, but no - it's horrible. The standard Chase Potato Vodka is vile too.

I think the lesson here being that the English should stick to the gin and not piss around trying to make something that the Russians, Poles and Balts have had licked for centuries nuts

Mobile Chicane

Original Poster:

21,976 posts

240 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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paulmurr said:
I really like it over ice, but if you're not feeling it then maybe some kind of martini would be my first thought. Marmalade vodka cut with some regular vodka, a splash of orange juice and shake with ice.

Lets call it the Paddington.
I like this idea too. smile

Mobile Chicane

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21,976 posts

240 months

Friday 29th June 2012
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The latest Chase disappointment: Chase rhubarb liqueur.

I specifically wanted a rhubarb liqueur to add to gin , and the Chase was all I could find.

No discernible rhubarb flavour, sickly sweet, and it tastes as though the roughest vodka has been used as the spirit base. Perhaps with a snifter of nail varnish remover thrown in.

Vile, just vile.

How Chase products attract their (alleged) accolades is beyond me. I think they're rubbish.

Shaw Tarse

31,877 posts

231 months

Friday 29th June 2012
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Time to make your own?

Wadeski

8,998 posts

241 months

Friday 29th June 2012
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flavouring your own spirits is pretty easy. I had a couple of wonderful home-made flavoured tequilas in a bar last night.

One came from a large mason jar with cantaloupe slices and oak chips in it, the other was a Reposado tequila that had been infused with serrano chili peppers.

Both were delicious.

Mobile Chicane

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21,976 posts

240 months

Friday 29th June 2012
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Wadeski said:
...Reposado tequila that had been infused with serrano chili peppers...
Now that sounds good. bandit