Holiday Spirits

Ingredients

• 1½ cups cacao nibs
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 vanilla bean
• 6 cardamom pods, lightly cracked
• 1 teaspoon gentian root
• 1 teaspoon wild cherry bark
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1½ cups high-proof bourbon
• ¼ cup dried culinary lavender
• ¼ cup dried chamomile
• Peel of 1 lemon
• ½ vanilla bean
• 1½ cups Everclear Grain Alcohol
• 1 vanilla bean, sliced open
• 3 jalapeños, sliced in rounds, seeds intact
• 2 cups turbinado cane sugar
• 1 cup water
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 4 cloves
• 2-inch nob of ginger, roughly chopped
• 1 cup dried hibiscus