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Bacon-Infused Bourbon
Everything’s Better with Bacon
Preparation info
- Makes
½ cup
- Difficulty
Easy
- Ready in
8 hr
Appears in
By Lindsay Landis and Taylor Hackbarth
Published 2013
Making a bacon cocktail involves a bit of trickery: You want to get the bacon flavor into the booze without a greasy mess. But it’s easier than you think, and best of all, you don’t have to waste any bacon to do it. All you need is the leftover fat.
Ingredients
2 slices ½ cup
Method
- Cook bacon in a skillet over medium heat until fat is rendered. Be careful not to overcook bacon, as it will impart a burnt flavor. Reserve bacon for garnish or for another use. Let fat cool in skillet for about 15 minutes; place a coffee filter inside a fine-mesh sieve. Pour cooled fat through sieve into a heatproof bowl.
- In a half-pint or larger glass jar wit