Old Bacon Fashioned

Mmmm...more bacon. Let's face it, bacon is nothing new. People have loved it for years. However, it's turned into quite the novelty in the past few years with almost every bacon-flavored item (edible and otherwise) you can imagine being made. I'll admit that I fit the profile of "sucker" for this trend; if I see something bacon-flavored, I'm probably going to buy it. And so...I bring you a recent purchase of Torani's bacon-flavored syrup.

You probably are familiar with Torani for its line of coffee syrups. You may not know that this company makes a lot of syrups that can also be used in desserts and other beverages, including cocktails. Sure, you could use bacon syrup in your coffee (and I probably will try it, I won't lie), but I think most crazy people who actually buy this stuff like me try it out in their cocktails. We've covered both bacon-infused vodka and bourbon on this site, so this isn't anything new, but just another angle for bacon addicts to use in their libations.

Though what I've read out there about a Chocolate Bacon Martini sounds enticing, I'm going to start out using this syrup in an Old-Fashioned. The syrup is more of a maple bacon flavor (yep, I did a straight taste test...this stuff is liquid gold) and it contains a pretty good dose of sugar, so I figured it can just be added to bourbon and Angostura bitters, and I'll nix the orange/cherry for the first experiment.

The Old-Fashioned is a good cocktail to try with this syrup since it's a sweet spin on bourbon, rather than a smoky one. I don't think this syrup would bode well in a traditional vodka martini, but I may have to pick up some Godiva chocolate liqueur and have myself a very manly dessert-tini sometime soon.

If you're interested, buy the syrup here.