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Fat-Washed Coconut Campari & How to Fat-Wash Sprits - Craft and Cocktails

Fat-Washed Coconut Campari & How to Fat-Wash Sprits - Craft and Cocktails

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What is Fat-Washing Although it sounds like a peculiar was to an oil stain out of something, fat-washing is the technique of taking a fat and infusing a spirit or liquid. It transforms the flavor and texture of a spirit making it silky and rounded. Fat-washing was first introduced to cocktails with a brown butter fat-washed rum by bartender Eben Freeman. But it was the Benton’s Old Fashioned, a bacon-infused cocktail created by Don Lee in NYC at PDT that took then cocktail world by storm. It also came at the height of the bacon craze so the mixture of that and the surprising fat-infused spirit contributed to the popularity of the cocktail and it quickly spread outside the cozy drinking den in the East Village. The technique has been in the cocktail zeitgeist ever since. How to Fat-Wash Spirits? Bear with me, we are going to get a little nerdy here! You will need to use alcohol for this as it acts as a solvent for the fat. Alcohol will extract both the fat-soluble and water-soluble flavors in an ingredient. While many aromatic compounds are fat-soluble, others are also water soluble so it will extract more flavor from the […]