# We Need a Bacon Beverage! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2007, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766 "2007-12-04T10:40:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/21 "2007-12-05T03:34:36Z")
FWIW, Bender’s in San Francisco serves a Bloody Mary with a stick of jerky. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/22 "2007-12-05T03:53:16Z")
Certainly at least a bacon soup is possible. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/23 "2007-12-05T15:59:35Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] Certainly at least a bacon soup is possible. [/QUOTE] Cream of Bacon with a Bacon Crouton floating on top. droooooool. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/24 "2007-12-05T17:35:35Z")
[QUOTE=RancidYakButterTeaParty] That’s what I said… [/QUOTE] Whoops, sorry, that’s what I get for skimming . . . me go away now. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/25 "2007-12-05T18:06:37Z")
Sounds like something Homer Simpson would come up with… ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/26 "2007-12-05T20:21:23Z")
mmmm…bacon. A meat so sinfully pleasurable Almighty God forbids it! Make a beverage of this flavor? HELL YEAH! ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/27 "2007-12-05T21:46:15Z")
LJ is blocked here at work, so I’ll have to check that Bacon Vodka link at home tonite. A friend of mine tried to do just that, soaking cooked bacon in vodka for several weeks, and had run it through a filter to get out the bits of bacon (a mistake on many levels, he admits). His then girlfriend poured herself a glass of “water”, and decided there was to much cleaning stuff left in the jug after it had been washed, and poured it all out. He never got to try it. Her body still hasn’t been found. (just kidding. she’s fine. he’s just heartbroken. They broke up a year later, for unrelated reasons…) ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/28 "2007-12-05T22:17:37Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] Cream of Bacon with a Bacon Crouton floating on top. [/QUOTE] Allright, this wasn’t quite what I was thinking, but it makes for a good plan. Suppose you were to boil a pound of bacon in water/cream for a few hours (add an onion …), then filter it and reduce it down. I don’t suspect much salt would need to be added as bacon is usually pretty salty. Then you have yourself a cream of bacon base to which you can add anything, including fried bacon. \<\\>..It’s OK buddy, it’s just a fantasy. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/29 "2007-12-05T22:56:52Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] Allright, this wasn’t quite what I was thinking, but it makes for a good plan. Suppose you were to boil a pound of bacon in water/cream for a few hours (add an onion …), then filter it and reduce it down. I don’t suspect much salt would need to be added as bacon is usually pretty salty. Then you have yourself a cream of bacon base to which you can add anything, including fried bacon. \<\\>..It’s OK buddy, it’s just a fantasy. [/QUOTE] I’d try cooking the bacon partially, then “pureeing” it in a food processor. Add cream(milk) and flour to the fat in the pan to make a roue (sp?) and then add the puree’d bacon and some onion back into it. Stir in some more cream to dilute it a bit so it doesn’t just form a logjam in the arteries (more of a beaver dam) and you might have something. Garnish it with a piece of bacon, of course. ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/30 "2007-12-05T23:11:08Z")
[QUOTE=Scarlett67] Whoops, sorry, that’s what I get for skimming . . . me go away now. [/QUOTE] No problem at all. I think many of you have missed the fact that the beer I mentioned really does taste like bacon. You may stop your searching and dreaming now, and commence to enjoy the bacony goodness of the smoke beer. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/31 "2007-12-06T00:22:48Z")
[QUOTE=RancidYakButterTeaParty] No problem at all. I think many of you have missed the fact that the beer I mentioned really does taste like bacon. You may stop your searching and dreaming now, and commence to enjoy the bacony goodness of the smoke beer. [/QUOTE] But I don’t like beer. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/32 "2007-12-06T01:45:55Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Why not just pour yourself a long tall glass of bacon grease? [/QUOTE] That was my first thought, too. Just don’t put ice in it – it goes down a little “chunky” if you do… ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/33 "2007-12-06T17:27:30Z")
Behold the [Baconcello](http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:UMD9BbCyRhYJ:chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_chuck/Adam%2520Seger%27s%2520baconcello.pdf+baconcello&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&lr=lang_en) as served at Osteria via Stato in Chicago. It was introduced at their Swine and Wine dinner, which we enthusiastically attended. They debuted the Baconcello at that dinner, and then added it to their menu on a permanent basis. I was prepared to enjoy it as a novelty. “Oh, look, honey, a bacon martini. Isn’t that cool?” I was completely unprepared to love it as much as I did. It really was an amazing drink; just the right balance between the smoky bacon, the sweet maple, and the tart apple and lime. ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/34 "2007-12-06T17:37:42Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] But I don’t like beer. 😕 [/QUOTE] Don’t expect it to taste like “beer”. This isn’t like a bacon flavored budweiser. This is a brew that is made with lots of smoked malts, which gives it the smokey/bacon flavor. It doesn’t taste like beer, it tastes like bacon. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/35 "2007-12-06T19:15:57Z")
[Not real](http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii94/TheWalkingDude/1187320639320.jpg) but funny. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/36 "2007-12-06T20:42:38Z")
Is [ham](http://chugworth.com/?strip_id=82) close enough? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766/37 "2008-01-26T08:43:27Z")
[Blogger resolves to drink bacon flavor cocktails.](http://www.omg-ponies.com/?p=246) > [@](#): > > Resolution Three is where it’s at. I want to bacon up some booze. My project for 2008 is to take popular cocktails and bacon them up with Bacon Salt. First up is a Bacon Mary, a Bloody Mary with Bacon Salt. The list for the rest of the year follows the jump. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-bacon-beverage/428766.md?page=1)