{"id":97,"date":"2012-08-28T15:33:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T19:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/?p=97"},"modified":"2012-08-28T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T19:41:50","slug":"vyshnivka-update-2-in-the-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/2012\/08\/28\/vyshnivka-update-2-in-the-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Vyshnivka Update #2:  In the Bottle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/files\/2012\/08\/vyshnivka5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-111\" title=\"vyshnivka\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/files\/2012\/08\/vyshnivka5-e1346182900378-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/files\/2012\/08\/vyshnivka5-e1346182900378-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/files\/2012\/08\/vyshnivka5-e1346182900378-1024x813.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/files\/2012\/08\/vyshnivka5-e1346182900378.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After several weeks of steeping the cherries in rectified spirits, I drained most of the liquid, some of which I will save and serve as cherry vodka.\u00a0 I left a couple of cups of liquid in the growler with the cherries and sprinkled in about 1\/2 cup white sugar, swirling the contents to mix the sugar in.\u00a0 Then I went off to Ukraine, so that sat a bit longer than called for in the recipe&#8230;\u00a0 Now that I&#8217;m back I strained the liquid and am bottling it to age for 6 months or so.\u00a0 You can see from this photo that the mixture is darker than the glass from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/2012\/07\/05\/vyshnivka-update-2\/\">my first vyshnivka update<\/a>.\u00a0 The flavor is (obviously) sweeter with the addition of the extra sugar, but the cherry flavor has also mellowed and deepened.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to trying it again six months from now at my annual Maslenitsa party in February.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several weeks of steeping the cherries in rectified spirits, I drained most of the liquid, some of which I will save and serve as cherry vodka.\u00a0 I left a couple of cups of liquid in the growler with the cherries and sprinkled in about 1\/2 cup white sugar, swirling the contents to mix the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jadickin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}