Ethanol: "Move Over Fruit, Meat-Flavored Vodkas Moving In"

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From the AP via New York Times:

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) -- Prepare your palate for carnivorous cocktails.
The Alaska Distillery in Wasilla just recently launched its Smoked Salmon Flavored Vodka, about a year after the 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....MORE

HT: the Los Angeles Times' Money & Company blog who begins the post:

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