Apologies, again

I really need to get back on the horse and start posting again. I really don't have any excuse other than that I was too busy doing... nothing for a month and now I'm always at work. I do have some posts with pictures still waiting in the wings at home, so maybe I'll get them up this week. In the meantime, I will leave you with the following:

1. I did use a fat-washing technique to infuse some bourbon with bacon flavoring. This definitely added a bacon flavor to the Jim Beam I used, but I did this with pretty crappy bacon and I think it would turn out better with something good. I'll try again. I took some pictures for a planned post for this month's MxMo (Local Flavor) using the bacon bourbon for my home state of Iowa. After all, what's more Iowa than hogs (bacon) and corn (bourbon)?
2. I finally got my hands on a bottle of green Chartreuse and mixed up a Last Word last night. I really like this cocktail. The only problem I have is that after mixing up Aviations all summer my bottle of maraschino is almost empty and the prospects of me hitting a liquor store outside of the greater downtown/Dupont Circle area anytime in the next few weeks is somewhere between slim and none. Hopefully I can find a new bottle, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
3. My favorite sipping rum of the moment is El Dorado 15-year old. Yum.