Salt- To Smooth and Balance Flavors, Anyone Tried it?

[seano26]

Being a Chef, I love salt for all its practical purposes. This morning it occurred to me that there may be yet another purpose for salt by using it smooth out a spirits flavor. While salt is a flavor enhancer, it will also blanket or mask undesirable flavors, especially bitter. A really bad bitter cup of coffee can be smoothed out by adding a pinch of salt opposed to massive amounts of cream and sugar. I plan on trying this with some hooch this evening, probably a small pinch of salt per 500ml as I do not want to taste the salt. Just curious if anyone has tried this and what the results were.