Posted on 03/22/2010 8:49:59 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Mmm Bacon...Flavored Vodka?
By Richard Goldsmith - FOXNews.com
America's favorite straight stuff gets an injection of flavor.
Once upon a time, vodka was popular for being virtually tasteless, delivering all the punch of alcohol without all of that annoying flavor. It was the ultimate blank canvas, melding with pretty much any mixer a bartender could pair it with. As vodka popularity grew in the ‘80s and ‘90s, liquor distillers realized there was money to be made through product extensions, so companies dove in head first. Thus, the tidal wave of flavored vodkas was unleashed.
Flavored vodkas have actually been around for a long time, they've just not been as popular as the straight stuff here in the New World. The first of these were fairly innocuous - based on fairly traditional liqueurs and flavors from vodka producing countries like Russia, Poland and Sweden such as lemon, pepper, black currant, and a few others.
With vodka firmly established as the number one selling spirit in the country, the recent added attention from “Sex and the City” wannabes swilling down Cosmos by the pitcher opened the floodgates for flavored vodkas to be the next big thing. Today, shelves are packed full of some of the most bizarre flavors known to mankind - cilantro and green tea are just the tip of the iceberg. And with bacon vodka hitting the market recently, who knows what could be next? Navigating this minefield can be a brutal exercise in trial and painful error. The following are a few flavors worth trying, assuming you're not too busy making homemade Skittles vodka.
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I have already made my bacon flavored vodka and blended whiskey probably a couple of years ago, I was too cheap to use Jack Daniels which would have been better). The vodka works fine and the whiskey is OK too.
That is too dry for my taste. When I make a martini, I take the vermouth bottle down from the shelf and pass the sealed bottle once between a southern window and the martini, that is just right for me.
In Soviet Russia, vodka adds bacon to YOU!
I think it is now safe to say that everything that can be invented has been invented.
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It's good for making Whiteout Russians.
IMO, bacon abuse.
cheers!
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