WASILLA, Alaska — Prepare your palate for carnivorous cocktails. The Alaska Distillery in Sarah Palin’s hometown recently launched its Smoked Salmon Flavored Vodka, about a year after Seattle-based Black Rock Spirits introduced a bacon-flavored vodka. Both savory spirits were intended to complement Bloody Marys but are finding wider uses among mixologists.
“I think there was some madness and some drunkenness involved, honestly,” said Toby Foster, an Alaska Distillery partner and the one charged with coming up with new flavors with Alaska themes.
Foster and Scotti MacDonald, another partner, said the current formula took 48 tries, and some of the first 47 attempts were downright disgusting.
“Definitely the first few times,” MacDonald said, “we had our heave bucket close by.” The Associated Press; AP photo
