Bloody Marys are Bloody Good

I have never been a fan of Bloody Marys. It's probably because mixing a depressant with vegetables seems to defeat a depressants purpose in the first place. Well on this particular Sunday, I went to a bar in the Lower East Side called Welcome to the Johnsons with my friend, Chris Berry. He was the same guy that introduced me to the bacon vodka, so I figured I would keep him around a while. After much persistence (one sip of his drink), Chris convinced me to get one of their Bloody Marys. He had heard they were one of the best in the city.

Holy crap that thing was good and only $7. Feast your eyes on the list of ingredients in this veggielicious libation. I am not sure the exact quantities as I was trying to be discrete when staring at the bartender in order to steal his special concoction. So, you will have to play around with the ingredients.

Wasabi

Saracha Sauce

Pickle Juice

Thai Chili Pepper Juice

Morton Hot Sauce Powder

Tabasco

Texas Pete

Horseradish

Worcestershire

Salt and Pepper

Lime and Lemon Juice

Canned Tomato Juice

Vodka

Guinness

It's Bacon

I have heard of infusing vodka with fruits, mint, and vanilla...but BACON, that was a new one for me. This past weekend I ventured out to Greenpoint, Brooklyn for Sunday Funday with some friends. We started off at a place called 68. They had been infusing vodka with bacon as an expirement for the past few weeks. The day we arrived happend to be the day they were testing it out. We tried bacon martinis and bacon bloody marys. I think the vodka worked better in the bloody mary because it wasn't too overpowering. It just had a hint of bacon flavor; where the bacon martini was extreemly potent. I am not sure if my palet could stomach more than one bacon infused beverage.

How to Infuse Vodka:

http://www.infused-vodka.com/vodkainfusionstep-by-step.aspx

Toasty Tip: Put green olives stuffed with bacon and blue cheese into your martinis and pickeled snap peas into your bloody marys. They did it and I loved it!