TASTE TEST – Bakon Vodka & the Bacon Mary!

So Baird, months back you were jumpin’ for joy over gettin’ your bottle of Bakon Vodka…

but then nothing – no updates, no taste tests, NOTHING!!

Well Brent (SHOUT OUT) was kind enough to send me this link last week about carnivorous cocktails. The article references Bakon Vodka and that reminded me that I haven’t posted anything about how this stuff tasted!

Well finally, here you go…

Bakon Vodka and my Bacon Mary!

First, full disclosure, I don’t typically dig vodka.  In fact straight up vodka is on my banned list (along with tequila).  Now I’ll drink it in a few mixed drinks but, due to an incredibly bad experience in my immediate post college days, I usually stay far away from it!

So as a taster of Vodka, I’m not the best suited.  But in the name of science and BACON I had to give this a shot…literally.

On it’s own, it had a slight smokey smell and taste, but I didn’t get any sort of essence of bacon.  Maybe that was because I didn’t give it enough time in my mouth to even register…it went right down the hatch.  How could I savor the vodka a little more slowly??  How about makin’ up a Bacon Mary?!

I got my “Bar American” book out and whipped up their Bloody Mary Mix recipe.  I changed a few little things up, like using V8, a couple extra shots of Tabasco and some Bacon Salt in my mix, mixed it all together and popped in the fridge overnight to set up.

That next day after work, it was time to wet my whistle…

Behold my Bacon Mary!  Isn’t it purdy?!?

It was a darn tasty drink but this became a case of too much of a good thing.  My mix was too tasty (and a little hot) to really pull any of the vodka’s subtle bacon flavor.  In the end, it was just another Bloody Mary…drat!

So back to the drawing board I’ll go.  The folks at Bakon Vodka have a few other drink recipes that I’ll give a try and we’ll see if this pork inspired alcohol really does achieve the promise of bacon in a bottle.