Benton's Old Fashioned

• 2 oz60 ml bacon fat-washed bourbon (or plain bourbon for a simple maple Old Fashioned)
• ⅜ oz11 ml maple simple syrup
• 2 dashes2 dashes Angostura bitters

1. To fat-wash, stir about 1 1/2 oz warm rendered bacon fat into a 750 ml bottle of bourbon, leave it for about 4-6 hours, freeze until the fat sets, then lift off the fat and strain the bourbon through cheesecloth.
2. Stir the bourbon, maple syrup and bitters with ice in a mixing glass until cold.
3. Strain over one large cube in a chilled rocks glass and express an orange twist over the top.

Garnish: orange twist