Fat-washing spirits. It sounds disgusting, right? But, when a bacon bourbon old fashioned is on the menu, it sells like hotcakes (smothered in bacon bourbon syrup, naturally). Fat-washing is the revolting terminology for a delicious and popular technique in the cocktail world, and, despite my many emails advocating for a name change, the global bartending community has yet to change the term to happy-savory-yum-yumization. [more...]