Here's an Interesting Concept... Bacon Flavored Vodka

It's not often that a new product excites me as much as the following:



Yes, I know... your first reaction to such an idea is "Who would even come up with an idea like that?"

My answer: A GENIUS. But please... allow me to elaborate.

Conceptualization:

The company releasing Bakon Vodka explains their product as follows:

"Although today you can find plenty of sweet, fruity-flavored mixtures and infusions, we wanted to set out to do something different, something savory…something bacon. And we set out to do it right, to create a premium-quality vodka you’d enjoy drinking." (Direct Link)

You notice immediately that they don't explain their reasoning for bacon, they just assume that bacon is the reason. What genius marketing. Bacon and Alcohol, not because it was wanted, but because its Bacon with Alcohol. It was as if it was missing and someone finally found it.

Let's face it, Bacon is tasty. Be it a healthy variety or pure fatback, bacon provides a delicious and essential part of the classic American breakfast. Crispy, crunchy, and is usually never high enough in quantity to break one of the deadly sins with.

Fast forward 12 hours. Happy hour has started. People begin drinking. If it's a Friday night, people begin partying. What is missing from this? Well, if your drinks are crunchy, you need to get a different drink, but the concept of that delicious bacon taste is certainly in limited quantities. What better way to infuse the best thing about the morning with the best thing about the evening?

Bakon Vodka is here.

Application:

Bakon Vodka's site lists a number of drink recipes here, and while I don't want to steal their site's thunder, I simply must highlight a few:

1) Bakon Chocolate Martini

This is classic use of concept expansion. What else kicks ass besides bacon and alcohol? Well, Chocolate sounds like a good contender! Looking at the simple recipe, it looks like bacon fans with a sweet tooth and a drinking problem are in for some happy times. The only real problem would be the shaken or stirred question. Decisions, decisions...

The only thing that could expand this further would be holiday mixes. Bakonogg anyone?





2) Bakon Vodka Marinated Steak

I simply can't imagine anyone besides a vegetarian being against this concept. There is already a high demand for steak and bacon concatenation, but allowing steak to be marinated in bacon? What an awesome idea that until now has been virtually unattainable. Sure, we have marinated food in alcohol before, such as beer-battered fish or ground beef with Jack Daniels Brand Barbecue Sauce, but the idea of MARINATING MEAT IN OTHER MEAT is simply too good to be true.






Final Thoughts:

Unfortunately for all of us, Bakon Vodka has not hit shelves yet, and when it does it will not be in very large distribution areas. According to the official site, only the northwest will get to taste it at launch, but I promise you, dear readers, I will find a way to ship it to the City of Champions as soon as I can for an official review. While we wait, we can try to brew up our own!

Hopefully you were not scared away by the man's strange rapist mustache.

In the meantime, I ask that interested readers throw their support behind the fine people at Bakon Vodka and give their site your eyeballs.

http://www.bakonvodka.com/

Hopefully the demand for this product can grow enough for more areas to justify carrying it.



~Jimmy "Then again... it might taste horrible." the G.