Homemade Wassail

Ingredients (7)

• 4 cups apple cider (or unfiltered apple juice, doctored up with warm spices like cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice)
• 1/2 inch nub of fresh ginger, peeled and grated or finely minced
• 2 lemons, sliced
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 3 star anise (optional, but they're pretty!)
• 1/2 vanilla bean, slit down the middle with the insides scooped out (or 1/4 ounce vanilla extract)
• Bourbon (plan on about 1 1/2 ounces per drink. I used Jim Beam)