Reddit reviews Premium Bourbon-Madagascar Vanilla Beans - 16 beans JR Mushrooms brand
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Each bean is 17 centimeters or more.Genuine Madagascar vanilla beansHighest qualitySixteen plump moist beans
Sure! I used a toddy-type cold-brewer (but the $10 version from Amazon). I poured half a bottle of middling gold rum, 40%, into the cold brewer. Then I added an equal amount of water to make it 20%, but you could add half as much to make it 30%. Then I added half a pound of Caribou's Mahogany roast (cheap coffee works fine for this), ground for drip to increase the rum-coffee surface area. Then I took two vanilla beans, split them, seeded each side and added the seeds and pod to the rum and coffee mixture. Let it sit for 24 hours, then drain. It'll drain faster than you'd think for a grind so fine, because the alcohol's viscosity is so low.
At some point, make brown sugar simple syrup. Boil 1 cup water, slowly stir in two cups brown sugar. Wait until cool. You can either add this to the coffee-rum-vanilla mix before or after draining.
It turns out pretty well! Pretty strong, pretty tasty, plenty of caffeine. I had more kahlua than could fit in a fifth bottle, so I added it to a mason jar with a cinnamon stick for an experiment. It was good, but needed horchata mixed with it to really balance it out. My bottle went in a couple days.
If you need vanilla beans, Amazon offers a great selection of quality beans for a good price. This is my recent go-to: http://www.amazon.com/Premium-Bourbon-Madagascar-Vanilla-Beans-Mushrooms/dp/B000ET4SM8/ref=sr_1_2?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1373602387&sr=1-2&keywords=vanilla+beans
Yeah, I had heard about the vanilla shortage, and was shocked when I had to purchase vanilla extract at Costco and it was triple the price.
I bought 16 premium Madagascar vanilla beans for $11.45 shipped three years ago after seeing the deal on homebrewfinds.com (Amazon Prime). Today, the price is $110. Looks like I could get them for about $45 if I tried.
I'd probably use high-grade real vanilla extract.