Homemade Kahlua

Steps

1. Add the water and sugar to a medium pot. Heat and stir until steaming and the sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat.

2. Add the vodka, lightly crushed coffee beans, and split vanilla beans. Stir together and let cool to room temperature.

3. Transfer to a very clean air-tight container. Seal and let sit in a cool dark place for three weeks or longer.

4. Strain the solids out of mixture with a fine mesh strainer, and divide up the homemade Kahlua or keep it in a big batch.

5. Kahlua keeps fine at room temperature for a few months.