Benton’s Old Fashioned

This recipe calls for bacon fat-washed bourbon, which can be made by grilling four slices of bacon and adding the fat to a bottle of bourbon and leaving to infuse for a day. After the day place the bourbon into a freezer to solidify the fat, before clarifying the bourbon by pouring into a new bottle to separate it from the solid waste.// In a mixing glass add the maple syrup and the bacon-washed bourbon and stir well until the syrup has properly dissolved. Add the bitters and stir again before straining into a rocks-filled lowball glass. Garnish with an olive and serve.