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Bourbon Some bar historians link the origins of fat-washed cocktails to . As the story goes, in 2007, esteemed pdt bartender Don Lee served bacon-fat-washed bourbon in a drink called Benton’s Old Fashioned. Lee, however, credits the technique to another New York City bartender, Eben Freeman, who made drinks with brown-butter-washed rum after watching pastry chefs extract flavors from fat. New York City speakeasy pdt