
Chile liqueur is a sweetened flavored liqueur whose character comes from chile peppers, with a capsaicin heat.
Sweetness and capsaicin heat in one bottle, and the heat is the half to measure by taste rather than by volume. Whatever you rebuild it from, add the strength back separately.
Chili-infused syrup
Sweetness and heat arrive together here too, minus the alcohol, so the measure stays and the strength does not. Dose by taste: the heat keeps building for a minute after it goes in.
Heat without sugar and without strength, and harder to measure — half a pod today and tomorrow burn differently. The sweetness and the spirit come back separately.