Braunfels seems pretty cool. They hand trim their bacon to increase the meat to fat ratio and smoke for 8 hours. I did some googling while it sat in the fridge waiting for weekend breakfast. There was not too much out there actually. One guy said it is really salty so I was stoked. It pretty much failed to wow me in any way though. Nothing bad about it, but the smoke is light and the flavor is really tame.

We ended up testing it with some sammiches. I ended up cooking a few pieces of Nueske’s to get a bit of bacon flavor in there.

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I could smell it through the very well packaged box. It was uber smoked. Grabbed the pack and looked at it and was overcome by smoke aroma. It seeped through vacuum seal and impregnated my fingers with smoke smell. Dry cured with salt, brown sugar, and sodium nitrate and apparently uber smoked it was a beautiful looking package.

I opened it and my eyes started to burn from the smoky power. It was a bit fatty and greasy as hell. Made up 4 strips on med low and the whole house was filled with the smell. I was surprised by the shrinkage which I attribute to the high percentage of fat. The first bite knocked me on my ass. It is so smoky, oh man. It had a sweet aftertaste, but the smoke is the driving flavor and overpowers everything. I bet it would be too much for most, but I absolutely loved it.

It was like xmas when this showed up. The packaging was darn good and two pounds of J. Samuel Whiting Bacon smiled back at me. I had to wait for a special occasion to test it out. Saturday turned out to be a perfect time. It looked pretty awesome and thick. I knew I was gonna be drinking on the beer bus soon so I just did two pieces.

The smell was sweet with a nice smoke aroma, not too much. Cast iron was the only way to go and I slowly cooked it to near crisp. The smoke smell was sweet while cooking. Not much fat rendered out while cooking. It was sticking to my uber seasoned cast iron pan which was odd. I think the sugar and lack of grease caused that.

I paired it with two eggs and some hash browns. It was pretty thick so it was not overly crispy. The flavor was very clean, sweet, with a hint of smoke. It was after taking a bite that the real flavor came out. The aftertaste was awesome. Very impressed.