Thread: black vodka for party drink

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For a few days now, I've been on the hunt for Blavod Black Vodka, I know its available, but apparently not in my area. I live fairly close to boston, and have called some of the distributors with no luck....so my quesstion is...has anyone ever colored vodka black with food coloring or any other method? Thanks for you ideas!!
Also, does anyone know where to get an iv bag. For jello shots? Saw them at Universal halloween horror nights last week

You can color vodka, but realize that most black foood dye is actually more a deep, deep purple or very dark blue. It takes a lot of dye to get the black look. I would suggest using the gel dyes that bakers use for coloring icing. Should be able to find some at Michael's or Hobby Lobby. I think even Walmart sells Wilton cake supplies now. The Blavod is colored naturally (or so they say) and has a slight flavor to it. I like it, but many people at my party were turned off by the color.

As for IV bag? I have no idea, sorry.

You could always try mixing it standard voddy with black sambucca, will give it a nice flavour
Add absinthe for a proper kick !

Do you have a friend that works in the medical field ? see if they can get you a bag of normal saline, or do shooters in 10cc syringes this year, I am going to do this for my party then you can say need a shot!!!!!

Equal amounts of red, blue, green & yellow food coloring should get you black or close to it. I'd test it out first on something else though.

I'm also pretty sure I've seen black food coloring somewhere, the grocery store maybe?

**googles**

YES! McCormick makes black food coloring.


http://www.ecrater.com/p/8199163/mcc...-coloring-1-fl

I'd still test it on something else first to see how much you'd need.

You can add food coloring as others have suggested but you won't be able to do cool serving tricks (like Blavod & OJ where the black vodka floats- see photo) as the food coloring will mix in.

It looks awesome but I would agree with Giles that I had guests preferring to drink regular vodka for fear of turning their teeth black.

I don't think you can get Blavod anywhere. I had to order it online last year and have it shipped to me. They have a website you can order from.

You can get it at any good liquor store here in Houston, not sure about around you though. I would not recommend food coloring for the drinks. I think it would be a huge mess. food coloring is made to dye things and thats exactly what it will do. It would take much more than the 1-2 drops that you put in cake frosting.

crappy!! I'm in Canada and we never get the cool alcy stuff...lol
But... I'm sure you could try to colour your vodka first they have Duff colour out in Michaels now. Not sure how powerfull it is? But Hey trying out a few drinks one night for experiment purposes..lol sounds good to me...lol cheers!!

Happily, as a nation of boozers, you can buy most sorts of alcohol is supermarkets in the UK.
Unhappily, none of them seem to have Blavod at the moment (they did, I've seen it there before)
No great loss , as vodka goes it's pretty poor quality.Good vodka = Polish, and we have a whole load of Polish shops here
Like I say, black sambuca is the way forward - tastes brilliant and mixes well with vodka.
I'm currently trying to find something like a Jaegerbomb that, when the shot glass goes in ,turns the rest of the drink red.....