Celebrity Booze Tasting with Danny Brown and Jim Meehan from PDT

BACON IN A GLASS — THE BENTON’S OLD FASHIONED 🍸🏴‍☠️🍍 Today is National Bacon Day, so let’s talk about where bacon actually entered the cocktail world — properly. The bacon trend didn’t start with vodka or flavored spirits. It started in 2007, at Please Don’t Tell (PDT) in New York, when bartender Don Lee created the Benton’s Old Fashioned. Instead of infusing bacon directly, he used fat-washing: a controlled technique that captures smoky, savory aromas while keeping the spirit clear. The logi