V.Planifolia, v.Tahitensis pt.ii

Bottled 11.11.19. Ben acted as virtual scribe for qualitative observations. Approximately 40g-43g of 80% alc. corn vodka to 1g-9g of beans, depending on varietal and single versus double bottling. The FDA standard for “pure vanilla extract” says you need 35% alc. and approximately a 10% ratio of beans to alcohol (“one unit per one gallon” which is such a foolish metric but…) I’m hoping since I’m using such high proof liquor, the extraction will produce a more than “pure” enough infusion for most of the bottles—and passable enough ones that are in the single-bean, lowest bean-to-alc ratio bottles. Time will tell: this is why we experiment.