The Pey’j (Beyond Good & Evil Cocktail)

Ingredients:
60 mls bacon rum
10 mls maple syrup
3 dashes Angostura bitters
10 mls water 

Directions:  Place all ingredients in glass.  Fill the glass with ice and stir until the cocktail is very cold.  Drink with friends and discuss how much Beyond Good & Evil 2 needs to come out.

Now, bacon rum isn’t that common.  In addition to sending in his recipe for this cocktail, Shay Leighton also sent in the recipe he uses to make your very own bacon rum.  

“First, I must confess after some of the long nights of Cocktails and Games down at the Mana Bar there has been known to be some (very) sore heads, and as any good gamer knows the only one cure for a hangover is BACON. Sadly for this drink you are going to need to eat piles of it, or you could invite your gang around for a post drinks night breakfast. 

First job you need to do is cook about 1.5kg (3.3 lbs) of bacon. You’re going to really want to fry that sucker because we need to collect as much fat as we can. The way to do this is just cook a couple of rashers of bacon at a time, remove the bacon (do with this what you may) then pour the fat off into another pot on the side.

Next we are going to get our bottle of Rum (I use and recommend Appleton Estate VX) and pour it in to a large mixing bowl. Please make sure to that the rum you are using is not garbage, it will ruin this drink terribly. 

Once you have cooked all your bacon and collected all of the fat. Place the ‘Fat Pot’ on a very low heat till all the fat is liquid again. Then pour you warmed fat into your rum and stir for about 10 min. really mix it right in. You want to then cling film over the top of the mixing bowl. Leave out (at room temperature) for 3-4 hour then stick it in the fridge over night.

The next day strain the, now solid fat and rum though something (I use cheese cloth) back into the original bottle.

Now we have Bacon Rum.”

Note that this drink is not currently available at Mana Bar.  Which means you should go stock up on some bacon, as this sounds like quite the neat weekend project!

(Drink created by Shay Leighton of Mana Bar.  Thanks a ton!)