Add the sugar to the espresso. After cooling, add the vanilla bean and vodka. Transfer to a dark glass bottle. After 2-4 weeks strain, remove the vanilla bean and transfer to a new bottle.
You may substitute half a cup of vodka with brandy to obtain a slightly different flavor.
it's like a big treetop full of twittering birds //
& I was so lucky to find my little branch long ago //
at quite some distance from the rest
-- Anselm Hollo, "On Reading Certain Novels"
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