Take about a dozen fresh huckleberries (wild blueberries) and crush them with a small fork at the bottom of your whiskey glass.
Add at least two shots of fine vodka, at least as high quality as Stolychanya -preferably Grey Goose.
Add ice and enjoy!
Alternatively, if huckleberries are out of season, drop a tablespoon full of frozen berries at the bottom of your glass and pour a small amount of warm vodka over them to help them to thaw. Once they're thawed, crush them with a fork to release their vital juices and add the remainder of vodka.
If you have to use blueberries, I think it'd be good, but not nearly as good as the wild huckleberry. A day of picking in a prolific huckleberry patch will yield more berries then you'd be able to consume the rest of the year using them just for this drink. They're very potent!
Addendum, as posted on another forum:
Prep: Fill a blender with a pound of huckleberries (wild blueberries) and add
one cup of filtered water. Blend. Filter out the seeds and skins of the
huckleberries in a coffee press or whatever means at your disposal.
The drink is two or three shots high quality vodka (Stolichnaya or Grey Goose
or similar)
1/8 ounce of concentrated huckleberry syrup from above
Ice on top in tumbler
There you have Purple Russian, a fine high-end sipping drink for the true
connoisseur.
Purple Russian Tart
Mix with lemonade (from frozen organic lemonade mix -no high fructose corn syrup, Cascadian Farm preferred)
Prep: pour four ounces of prepared huckleberry syrup into container then add
the frozen concentrate and make the lemonade according to instructions.
Pour two or three shots of vodka in tumbler and fill the remainder with
lemonade and add ice as desired.
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