Joel Stein’s New York Times article couldn’t help but strike my interest with the title Cocktail for Carnivores: Drinks Infused with Meat. Unfortunately, most of the cocktails were ghastly – although the meat-stuffed olives looked rather tempting. Anyhow, it is easy to make bacon-infused vodka and it tastes damn good in a Bloody Mary.
Bacon Vodka
1 pound of bacon
750 ml of vodka
Cook off 1 pound of bacon and place in a fifth of vodka (use a vodka that you would enjoy on it’s own). Cover and place somewhere that you won’t bother it for a month at room temperature. Don’t bother looking at it for the next 30 days because what you will see WILL disgust you. After 30 days strain the vodka from the bacon and residual fat. Now place it in the freezer overnight. Strain it through a cheesecloth and wa-la – you have bacon vodka. Not hard to make – just a bit time-consuming.
- Columbine Quillen I am a mixologist bartender and this is my blog.
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Hey Columbine
Bacon has many strange powers like turning vegetarians back onto meat however I think I can live without bacon flavored vodka for a while.
One small nit about your article. I bring it up because I’ve seen it a few times online lately and it’s starting to drive the pedant in me nuts. When you said “Wa la” you meant voilà which is the French for “there you are” : http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861734500/voilà.html
Ah – don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. I didn’t know that about voilà – but perhaps wa la is the English translation:)
When I tasted your Bacon Mary at Blacksmith’s the first thought that came to my mind was, “how amazing would it be to have one of these for breakfast when I go camping this summer?” Can’t wait to make my own. Thanks for sharing the wisdom.
THat sounds absolutely disgusting. But I will try anything coming from you, so if you serve me one I will drink it
In my experience, (the BLT cocktail has been a hit on our menu for almost two years), fat washing is the quickest, easiest, and best way to create bacon vodka.
Take about a cup of bacon fat, combine with a bottle of vodka, or any spirit of choice, and place in the freezer overnight,
pour through a strainer, and you have a great bacon flavored spirit.
This process also works for making our Duck Gin.