This Week in Bacon
Is there a limit to what we can do with bacon? Apparently not. There’s bacon vodka, bacon floss, bacon dresses, bacon guns, bacon lube (yes, you read that right), and the list goes on and on (just check all of Crispy’s past This Week in Bacon posts . . . you’ll get the picture). But there’s something missing. A little bacon-related something for the football fans to enjoy. That something is called Bacon beer. Don’t throw up just yet . . . wait until you actually read what the Brooklyn Brewery has concocted:
…[Brewmaster Garrett Oliver] been infusing a brown ale with the flavor of Benton’s bacon fat through a technique known as “fat washing.” [...] Oh, and the bacon-fat-infused ale was also aged in bourbon barrels, because bourbon and bacon go together like, um, beer and bacon.
Eventually, the barleywine with the bacon-smoked malt and the bourbon-aged, bacon-fat-infused ale would be blended to create one monstrously bizarre beer.
“One of two things will happen,” Mr. Oliver predicted. “Either this will be the most amazingly disgusting thing you’ve ever tasted in your life. Or I shall rule the earth.”
Hmm, I predict the former. Maybe there isn’t a limit to what we can do with bacon, BUT . . . maybe there should be (and this is coming from a true bacon lover, although I’ll admit, an equally passionate beer hater). Bacon fat infused beer sounds unappetizing, especially when you imagine it with wings or chips, or any other food product, for that matter. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how it’s received, once it is “perfected.”
