Bacon Vodka

I read somewhere about a bar having made its own bacon infused vodka. This sounded like a wonderful idea, so I decided to replicate it. I could combine two of the best things in the world. How could this fail? The the vodka taste's too bacony? Impossible, I say. The beauty of this idea is the two end products are vodka that tastes like the most delicious thing ever, and bacon that will get you drunk.

So I fried up some strips of bacon and bought a fifth of Crown Russe Vodka and put them together in a Tupperware for a week. I stored it in a dark place and a week later it had turned into a pale yellow liquid with bacon fat suspended in it. I used a coffee filter to filter out the bacon fat and I was left with some homemade bacon vodka. Unfortunately it smelled like rubbing alcohol.

Apparently I forgot what happened last time I combined two of my favorite foods.

It was then that I found out that two good things don't necessarily combine to form something better.

Although it smelled terrible, I decided to unveil it at the tailgate on Saturday. Since no one in my house would not try it, I passed it around to people who didn't know what it was. Half of them immediately threw up, the other half were convinced it was urine. I took 4 swigs, and while it did taste like bacon, it wasn't something I would drink again. But I still have three strips of vodka bacon that I can make into a killer BLT.

As for an event that doesn't deserve its own post but is still good. Today there was some 5k run that they had state street closed in front of our house. So we sat on the porch to watch the people run. I picked up a Cottage Inn and stood along the course offering runners pizza and beer. One guy had to turn around to get a slice, and a Fire Brewed Detroit Original. Then when the walkers came we played the song I Would Walk 500 Miles by the proclaimers. It was a beautiful Sunday Morning.