Written by ShareMyShot on March 17th, 2010
Booty Call
1 oz. Hpnotiq liqueur
1 oz. DeKuyper peach schnapps
1 splash Dole pineapple juice
Shake the ingredients in a cocktail mixer over ice. Strain into a shot glass and serve. Enjoy !
Today we have a shot suggested by a good friend of mine. He and I actually went out on my birthday last week and tore it up. He’s Yugoslavian and he gets this homemade Slovakian moonshine from his relatives overseas. I mean, this stuff could make a car run. It’s pretty lethal. You can pour a small, little bit on the bar and light it up and it will burn for over a minute. It’s like drinking gasoline.
So while we were throwing down this homemade moonshine and making our livers cry, this friend suggested we try a shot called Booty Call. And I know exactly why he suggested it.
I have a lady-friend that I’m pretty tight with. Sometimes after some partying or whatever, she and I might goof around a little bit. I like to think of the relationship as the ol’ “friend with benefits “.
This friend of mine always refers to her as ” Booty Call “.
If he and I are talking on the phone and I have to switch over to answer another call, he always asks, ” Is it Booty Call? ”
Or if I can’t meet him somewhere for drinks because I already have plans, he’ll ask me, ” Are you hookin’ up with Booty Call? ”
So just by suggesting this shot for us to try at ShareMyShot, he’s basically razzing me and busting my balls. But I will take suggestions from anyone in search of a decent shot. And this recipe calls for Hpnotiq which we have only used once or twice to date. So I thought it really would be a decent suggestion to run past the taste team.
They were game.
So this Booty Call does indeed call for Hpnotiq……which is the tasty blue liqueur made from vodka, cognac, and tropical fruit juices. And the Hpnotiq is combined with peach schnapps–which is not exactly one of the panel’s favorite flavors. But we can’t exactly ignore recipes that call for peach schnapps, can we ? This recipe also calls for a splash of pineapple juice, so we were hoping that might blend in with the schnapps and the Hpnotiq to sort of mute the peachy element.
Which it did to a degree. The Hpnotiq and the pineapple juice helped to quell the peach flavor. It was still slightly evident (as it does make up about half of this shot). But the fruit juices of the Hpnotiq and the pineapple juice made the overall taste come off as some sort of other tropical fruit. Like a grapefruit, or a kiwi, or a kumquat, or an apricot, or a pomegranate, or who the hell knows what ??
It wasn’t overly peachy, which was nice. And it wasn’t distinctly pineapple-y. It tasted fruity, but was very hard to pinpoint. The taste wasn’t bad at all…..but it wasn’t scrumptious. This shot was a true dilemma.
ShareMyShot gives this peach puzzle of a shooter a 3 on a scale of 5. We give it credit for using creative ingredients like Hpnotiq and pineapple juice. The taste was satisfactory. And the shot lost points for its potency. It’s not all that bold. So in the end, we felt giving the shot a 3 on our scale was a fair assessment.
We don’t know how the name Booty Call applies to the shot. I’m almost thinking it normally goes by a different name and my buddy just assigned it that moniker to again bust my balls. But as long as I get to drink at work and he doesn’t…….I guess the joke is actually on him.
Cheers !!
Posted in 3 Star Shots, 99 Peaches schnapps, Caribbean, DeKuyper peach schnapps, Dole pineapple juice, Hiram Walker peach schnapps, Hiram Walker schnapps, Hpnotiq, Southern Comfort peach liqueur, comfort shots, flavored liqueurs, flavored schnapps, fruit juices, liqueurs, peach schnapps, pineapple juice, schnapps, tropical fruit shots | No Responses »
Written by ShareMyShot on March 16th, 2010
Double Shot From Hell
2 1/2 oz. 1800 Tequila
1 oz. Absolut Mandrin vodka
1 oz. Bombay Sapphire gin
Add all three of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake moderately and strain into a double-shot glass. Serve. Enjoy ! {Discover additional trick within review for an added treat}.
This was a shot recipe brought in today by that guy on the taste panel that thinks he’s funny all of the time. When he’s really not. Not at all.
No, not me jackass.
The guy we had to suspend for part of a week for causing a disturbance with his bad comedy ? And then being heavily involved in a recipe that was very close to one we had sampled before ? You know….that guy. The one that office lackey Keith filled in for very admirably over the rest of that week and almost stole his spot on the panel ? Yes…..that guy.
Well today he brought in a very interesting recipe in an effort to redeem himself. This is a double shot ( 4 1/2 oz. ) that seems to want to get your attention. It’s called the Double Shot From Hell. It calls for three pretty creative ingredients to throw together. It starts off with 2 1/2 oz. of Tequila 1800……..although we are going to suggest that you can use any of your favorite tequila brands (Patron, Sauza, Cuervo, Cazadores, or something else really lip smacking). But it starts off with a good helping of some good tequila.
Then we get really creative and add in some Absolut Mandrin vodka–which is one of the flavors offered by Absolut that we have not yet tried in any of our 100+ recipes. Do not deviate on this ingredient. Go with the offering by Absolut. Your bar stock should have at least two or three different flavors from the Absolut family. We recommend Kurant, Peppar, Citron, and Mandrin here at ShareMyShot.com
So you have your fine-ass tequila. You have your top-notch Absolut vodka. And we need one more thing.
The final ingredient is another label that we have not previously called upon in prior recipes. You add in some Bombay Sapphire gin. This is a product offered by the tentacles of Bacardi that has a unique flavor influenced by ten different ingredients including almond, juniper berries, and angelica. You can get a bottle for around $23–30 at a good liquor store.
So there we have it. A very creative and interesting trifecta of flavors in a double shot throwdown.
The taste panel absolutely loved this shot. And it was even more appreciated with a little trick we threw in. Most of the panel liked the shot more when we seasoned the rim of the shot glass. We tried it with both salt ( for the tequila element ) and with sugar ( for the mandarin vodka element ). And both times, the panel liked the shot better than with the unseasoned, plain shot glass.
But the taste of the shot was a terrific blend of the vodka and the gin. We could see why the tequila is doubled as compared to the other ingredients; to maintain some sort of recognition in this taste explosion. And you can still taste the tequila….don’t get me wrong. But the multiple flavors of the gin blend together perfectly with the subtle mandarin flavor of the Absolut vodka. And then there’s the wisp of the tequila.
ShareMyShot.com gives this double shot of flavor a 5 on our scale of 5. The panel all had four shots (one plain, one with sugar on the shot glass, one with salt, and then the drinker’s favorite). The shot was creative in nature. It utilized some tasty, creative ingredients. And it certainly packs a punch. A double shot at a time. Very, very good.
Someone actually said it should be named the Double Shot From Heaven.
Cheers !!
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Written by ShareMyShot on March 15th, 2010
Caribbean Volcano
1 1/2 oz. Jose Cuervo Especial gold tequila
1 1/2 oz. Myers (Jamaican) dark rum
3 pinches cayenne peppers
3 dashes horseradish
3 dashes Tabasco sauce
Pour the rum and the tequila into a tall shot glass. Add the horseradish, pepper, and then the tabasco sauce. Serve. Enjoy !
After a final weekend of decadence celebrating my 40th birthday before I start making some serious changes for my health, I admit that I need a good wake-up call for today’s shot. Much like a bunch of New Year’s resolutions, I’ve set a handful of goals to start pursuing now that I reached the big 4-0. For instance, I’d like to lose 15-20 lbs. And a real quick way to doing that (almost cheating I’d lose it so fast) would be to seriously cut back on my drinking outside of ShareMyShot and maybe eliminate…………pizza. With a little bit of exercise.
I’d probably lose 20 lbs in 30 days.
But after celebrating Thursday thru Saturday and then losing an hour’s sleep due to turning the clocks back for Daylight Savings time on Sunday morning, I need a shot that qualifies as a hangover remedy. A shot that will slap my ass awake. Get me going with some gusto on a lunchtime walk with the apple I brought in.
Say hello to the Caribbean Volcano.
A couple of the panel members, including myself, were slightly tricked when one of the other panelists announced the Caribbean Volcano as today’s shot. Often a Caribbean themed shooter has some fruit juices in there and some sweeter ingredients to make a refreshing tropical shot. But this one is different. This shot is meant to heat you up. Thus, the volcano in the name.
The shot’s liquor ingredients aren’t too weak. You have a mix of Jose Cuervo tequila and Jamaican dark rum. An interesting combination.
And then you spice it up for the lava-hot element of the volcano. You toss in some horseradish, some cayenne pepper, and Tabasco sauce. That’s some serious hot seasoning!
I and many people have had tequila with a few drops of tabasco sauce in there. And I’ve added pepper to many drinks. I like my Bloody Marys pretty spicy and have used cayenne pepper in those before. But here we have the triple threat. All three ingredients that are commonly used to add a little spice “kick” to mixed drinks and shots.
The panel unanimously agreed that the triple threat provided all the kick we needed out of this shooter. It was freakin’ spicy ! A couple of the female members and one guy stopped after two rounds. I did three in pursuit of that pick-me-up I was after.
And I got my pick-me-up.
Nobody did more than three rounds of the Caribbean Volcano. While the taste wasn’t exactly bad, it is (almost obviously) not a shot meant to massage your tastebuds. It’s meant to assault them. And it does. The tequila, the Tabasco, and the cayenne were the three flavors identified most prominently by the panel.
ShareMyShot gives the Caribbean Volcano a 2 on a scale of 5. While somewhat creative, the spices used in the shot are pretty much the traditional options. The taste is pretty suspect—-although we acknowledge it is a shot meant to torture more than tickle. And while you might catch a pretty good buzz if you drank 5 or 6 of these, we don’t see too many people wanting 5 or 6 of these.
This volcanic shooter spits out just a bit too much lava for our tastes.
Cheers !!
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Written by ShareMyShot on March 11th, 2010
Happy Birthday Motherf*cker
1/2 oz. Absolut Citron vodka
1/2 oz. Tanqueray gin
1/2 oz. DeKuyper Raspberry Pucker schnapps
1/2 oz. triple sec
1/2 oz. Mr and Mrs T sweet and sour mix
1/2 oz. Minute Maid orange juice
1/2 oz. Bacardi O rum
Add all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain into a double shot glass. Serve. Enjoy !
Today the panel was all set with the recipe they wanted to share today. Apparently they set it up over the last few days so that we would have all of the ingredients ready and the only thing to do would be to prepare the shots and drink ‘em. Sometimes we’ll spend 20-25 minutes just deciding what shot to sample. But today the group was insistent that Happy Birthday Motherf*ucker would be the shot we’d drink.
In honor of me, it would seem. Today is my 40th birthday.
My liver thinks it’s our 65th. Dumb liver.
So today we have a rather elaborate recipe to share with you in honor of my parents’ successful coupling a mere 40 years (and nine months) ago. Happy Birthday Motherf*cker employs flavored varieties of vodka and rum with some tasty Raspberry Pucker schnapps thrown in for good measure. Some additional sweetners in the form of sweet and sour mix, triple sec, and orange juice make this close to a tropical drink/shooter. And those often taste pretty damn good.
Obviously you don’t have to use Minute Maid orange juice if your family drinks Tropicana or a store brand. Just use what you have in the ‘fridge. Same goes for whatever triple sec, and sweet and sour mix you use. Go with whatever is in your bar stock.
But you do want to go with the specific vodka blend and flavored rum that is called for. Both Absolut and Bacardi are well respected distillers who take great pride in their flavored products. And not every other vodka and rum producers offer the flavors called for here (citrus and orange). So stick to the recipe on those ingredients. As well as the Tanqueray.
The shot tasted awesome ! Happy birthday to me ! All but one panel member agreed that it tasted fantastic except one. And even that member agreed it was very favorable. He just prefers his shots a little less fruity and sweet. He’s more of a whiskey-based shot man. But he certainly acknowledged the merits of Happy Birthday Motherf*cker.
The raspberry and the orange elements blended together nicely and the Tanqueray didn’t get completely blotted out. There was still a wisp of the flavor that is so unique to the classy Tanqueray. The shot was sweet and fruity. But not in any way so dominating as to turn off the drinker. It is a shot for a hot day. Ladies will like its taste.
And as the panel found out by surpassing the company policy of 4 rounds (by just a few) in honor of my birthday, the shot does creep up on you. There are enough high quality ingredients to announce their presence.
ShareMyShot.com gives the Happy Birthday Motherf*cker a 5 on a scale of 5. It is creative with a lot of ingredients trying to steal the show. But they all play together nicely and deliver a smooth, refreshing flavor. And then there’s the punch it eventually will deliver. Use some sense drinking these.
So thank you to my taste panel compadres and everyone at ShareMyShot for a delicious birthday surprise.
Cheers !!
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Written by ShareMyShot on March 10th, 2010
Epitaph
1 oz. Bailey’s Irish cream
1 oz. Parfait Amour liqueur
Combine both ingredients in a shot glass. Enjoy !
Today we give you a recipe stripped down to its bare simplicity.
I have no idea what that really means, but this is a very simple, two-ingredient shot that calls for a liqueur that we have never used before at ShareMyShot.com
And there is good reason for this. We had to special-order this bottle of liqueur on-line just to get it. It’s not available at the liquor store down the street, nor a half-dozen other liquor outlets in the immediate vicinity. Our office lackey Keith trudged back into the office a few weeks back completely defeated and disappointed in himself that he was not able to procure a bottle of Parfait Amour anywhere in town.
While this promising young kid always aims to please, it’s not a mystery as to why he had trouble.
This liqueur is in limited distribution and has been phased out already in a number of major cities. It had been on the market for a couple of decades, but has limited popularity and market share. As a result, it is often pulled from those outlets that sometimes carry it.
Parfait Amour is purple in color and is often employed in drinks simply due to its color. The taste is grape candy-ish and the liqueur is often based on a rose petal or violet profile. Marie Brizard offers a label called Parfait Amour, but that is not 100% exactly the original formula/blend. If you can find the Marie Brizard option, it will run you $28-35 . However, it is one thing to find a liquor store that carries Marie Brizard at all, let alone their offering of Parfait Amour.
The real deal is primarily sold in France and the Netherlands. Sometimes in can be readily found in Sweden, Finland, and Norway.
The name of this shot, Epitaph, seems just a touch off. As hard as Parfait Amour is to find, it is not exactly a ball-buster of a liqueur. It is in fact, rather tame. Like we said, it tastes like grape candy or a sweet bottle of grape schnapps. Nothing overtly extravagant. Or brutal.
When I kick it, I want my epitaph to be something direct—-like ” Here lies Mr. X……pardon me for not getting up”
Or something famous like Mel Blanc’s “ That’s allll folks !! ”
or
perhaps George Carlin’s “ Hey !! He was just here a minute ago !! “
Those would be cool. But I’m not so sure this shot deservedly should be called Epitaph. It’s not all that deadly. Or lethal. Or even dangerous. It’s actually pretty weak. I mean, we’re talking grape candy liqueur and Bailey’s for God’s sake.
The panel at ShareMyShot.com could only give this shot a 1 on a scale of 5. It doesn’t have a whole hell of a lot of kick. And it’s only two ingredients….so it’s not exactly creative or special. The taste is very pedestrian and so-so. Nothing memorable at all. The only reason we didn’t give it a ZERO is because it does call for a somewhat hard-to-find liqueur that has a purple color and so is just barely unique.
Maybe the epitaph for this shot should be borrowed from the sea…….” Thar she blows !!! ”
Cheers !!
Posted in 1 Star Shots, Bailey's Irish Cream, Marie Brizard Parfait Amour, Parfait Amour, flavored liqueurs, flavored schnapps, grape liqueur, grape schnapps, hangover remedies, liqueurs | 1 Response »
Written by ShareMyShot on March 9th, 2010
151 Ways To Die
1/2 oz. Bacardi 151 rum
1/2 oz. Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey
1/2 oz. Everclear alcohol
1/2 oz. Cazadores tequila
Combine all of the ingredients in a shot glass and then drink. No particular order is necessary. If you want to, you can use a spoon to float each alcohol atop another. But this drink is not supposed to be pretty. It is to get drunk. Fast. Enjoy !
One of the guys on the panel brought this one in today. It’s his birthday. And he’s only in the office for the taste test and the discussion. Then we’re taking him to lunch and he’s heading off to party deep into the night. So he thought he’d bring in a recipe that would rev up his engines for his day of decadence. Anytime you are dealing with a shot called 151 Ways To Die……I think that will suffice.
This lethal liquid has four powerhouse ingredients to it. Three of them we have employed in past recipes. This one calls for Cazadores tequila which is a fine brand of tequila. We haven’t specifically used this in any prior recipe, but it is great tasting—-very savory—-and you can usually secure a bottle for between $34–40 at a good liquor store. If you are short on funds these days like so many of us are, you can substitute your favorite brand for the Cazadores. You won’t hurt the shot by using Sauza or Patron here. But if you can add a bottle of Cazadores to your bar stock, by all means give this label a try.
Regardless of the tequila you use, be prepared for the smackdown that this shot will deliver. It’s not hard to see by the ingredients that this shot will hit you hard. Anytime a shot uses Everclear, you should be respectful of its power and use some common sense.
Like many of these ass kicking shots with a handful of really strong ingredients, the taste was a medley of whiskey and tequila mostly. Those flavors seem to hold their own when paired up with vodka, rum, and in this case Everclear. The rum and the Everclear kind of get pushed to the background. And appreciating the whiskey/tequila taste combo is something that you have to acquire over time. Some people like it. Others think they are a bad clash.
This shot reminded us a lot of yesterday’s shot by way of the characteristics we use to assign it a grade. It has a nice collection of fine, well-known liquors. And it certainly is powerful and will mess up your mind. The taste is tolerable, while not exactly delicious. And the creativity of the whole thing is evident, but not worthy of a gold medal.
ShareMyShot gives the shooter 151 Ways To Die a 3 on a scale of 5. That is what we gave yesterday’s shot (the Cluster Fuck) as well. Neither was head-and-shoulders above its counterpart. They had a alot of similar qualities and we feel both deserved a mid-range rank.
Just do be careful drinking either today’s shot or yesterday’s libation. You don’t want to end up on that show on the Spike channel called 1000 Ways to Die where they profile (mostly) idiots going to a premature death.
151 Ways To Die is enough.
Cheers !!
Posted in 3 Star Shots, Bacardi 151, Black Velvet whisky, Cazadores tequila, Evan Williams whiskey, Everclear, Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Jose Cuervo gold, Knob Creek, Patron, Patron Silver tequila, Sauza tequila, Tequila 1800, Wild Turkey, rum, tequila, whiskey | No Responses »
Written by ShareMyShot on March 8th, 2010
Cluster Fuck
1/2 oz. Jack Daniels Tennessee whiskey
1/2 oz. Wild Turkey Kentucky bourbon whiskey
1/2 oz. 1800 Tequila
1/2 oz. Bacardi light rum
1/2 oz. Skyy vodka
1/2 oz. DeKuyper butterscotch schnapps
1 oz. 99 Apples schnapps
Pour the Tennessee whiskey, the Kentucky bourbon, the tequila, the rum, and the vodka into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, and strain into a double shot glass. Add the butterscotch and the apple schnapps in at the end. Serve. Enjoy !
Perhaps another name for today’s recipe could have been The Kitchen Sink. Because obviously, this shooter has everything in it but the damn kitchen sink. But instead, this seven ingredient poison party is known as Cluster Fuck.
Now I’ve been familair with this term for some time….often I hear people throw a ” Mongolian ” at the front of it. For instance, when you are talking to a friend at the bar and you ask, ” Say, how did that huge project turn out at work ? ”
And their reply is, ” Oh Christ !! It was a Mongolian Cluster Fuck ! ”
Or sometimes some of the guys I watch football with on Sunday may throw this term out. Such as after the Chicago Bears fail to score a touchdown after having a first down on the one yard line. Inevitably, someone says, ” Well that was the usual cluster fuck by the Bears ! ”
But today, we hope that the Cluster Fuck is more of a friendly beast. It seems friendly enough—-what with the wide array of ingredients including a couple of tasty contributors like Jack Daniels and 1800 Tequila. Then there seems to be a couple of tamer schnapps thrown in on top to temper the potency of the prior ingredients. And thankfully for once, neither of them are peach schnapps !
So we have an eclectic collection of powerful libations finished off with a butterscotch / apple topping to it. I’m game !
The shot was interesting to say the least. And perhaps the funny thing is that the panel was almost duped into trying four rounds of this powerful punch in an effort to identify which tastes stood out and which ones were muted. And after four rounds of a double shot glass of Cluster Fucks, well……..you really do start to feel it.
Some really felt that you could taste the schnapps more than anything else with that element laying on top of the whole shot. And of the schnapps, the apple seemed to be most prominent. Perhaps it should be that way as there was twice as much apple schnapps versus any other ingredient. And it was on the top. Others on the panel felt that the whiskeys were at the forefront more than the other libations. The vodka and the rum seemed to be the most muted of the ingredients. And one panel member strongly felt that the tequila was the most recognizable. So there was a variety of opinions on what flavor was the most potent. And all agreed that the shot was mighty strong.
What prevented the shot from earning a really high mark on our scale was the overall taste. It wasn’t bad as some of the shots with so many components can be. But it wasn’t a lip smacking blend the way some fruity liqueurs work well together to make more of a tropical shot. Or how fruit juices like orange juice or cranberry juice can work well with vodka or rum. This shot struggled to define a true taste identity.
The Cluster Fuck was indeed a true cluster fuck.
And as a result, ShareMyShot gave it a 3 on our a scale of 5.
Cheers !!
Posted in 3 Star Shots, 99 Apples schnapps, Absolut, Apple Pucker, Bacardi white/light rum, DeKuyper Butterscotch Liqueur, DeKuyper Sour Apple Pucker, Evan Williams whiskey, Grey Goose Vodka, Hiram Walker Butterscotch schnapps, Hiram Walker schnapps, Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Jose Cuervo gold, Ketel One vodka, Knob Creek, Patron, Patron Silver tequila, Popov vodka, Sauza tequila, Skyy vodka, Smirnoff's vodka, Stolichnaya vodka, Tequila 1800, Thor's Hammer Vodka, Wild Turkey, apple schnapps, butterscotch schnapps, flavored schnapps, rum, schnapps, tequila, vodka, whiskey | 1 Response »
Written by ShareMyShot on March 4th, 2010
Liquid Xanax
1/2 oz. Jagermeister herbal liqueur
1/2 oz. Goldschlager cinnamon schnapps
1/2 oz. Crown Royal Canadian whisky
1/2 oz. Bacardi 151 rum
Mix all of the ingredients together in a double shot glass. Serve. Enjoy !
Once I reached the age of 30 or so, I abandoned taking all pills. I’m hardpressed to even take a Tylenol now when I have a headache. This is because up to the age of 30, I was a little bit like Elvis Presley. And I don’t just mean fat. There was that…..and then there was the pills. If you had one and said that it made you feel good, I was swallowing it. Not a very healthy way to live….as Elvis demonstrated.
But I gave that sort of lifestyle up. Now I’m just a “shot man” . And today’s shot is called Liquid Xanax. Now I’ve never taken a dose of Xanax in my life; at least to my knowledge. But if it is a pill that has only hit the market in the last 8-10 years, then I can safely say that I have never taken one.
Xanax is a trade-name for a short-acting drug that is primarily used to treat moderate to severe anxiety disorders and panic attacks. It is used as an adjunctive treatment for anxiety associated with moderate depression. I didn’t know this information from the top of my head….it comes courtesy of our research and development department.
So today we are sharing the recipe for Liquid Xanax. It’s probably healthier for a person that the damn pill. Let’s see….
The shooter Liquid Xanax is a combination of four pretty heavy hitters in the liquor department. We have the powerhouse Bacardi 151 rum, and we have Crown Royal Canadian whisky which has a habit of really creeping up on unsuspecting people.Toss in a couple of deceivingly powerful libations such as Jagermeister and Goldschlager and you have a real knockout punch. This concoction would cause most people to fall into a more sedate disposition. Unless they are a rowdy, mean dinker. But for most people, I think it would help to subdue any manic feelings they are having.
The true question is how this quadruple bad boy tastes.
The answer to that question was debated pretty well by the taste team panel. Nobody thought it was one of the best shots they have tasted in a while. About half of the panel thought it tasted anywhere from satisfactory to savory. The other half of the panel didn’t really like the taste much at all. The Goldschlager was the only ingredient that clawed its way past the others and was still pretty discernible. The other ingredients seemed to be blotted out by their compadres.
ShareMyShot gives this calming influence of a shot a 3 on a scale of 5. It packs a good whallop. Like we said, unless you are a mean drinker who gets riled up when buzzed, this Liquid Xanax definately settles a man down. But the taste was a little suspect. So overall, it earned a middle-of-the-road ranking.
We still recommend you do the shot rather pop the pills. After all, this is ShareMyShot.
Cheers !!
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Written by ShareMyShot on March 3rd, 2010
Squashed Frog
1.5 oz Midori melon liqueur
1 oz. Bols Advocaat liqueur
1 oz. Bailey’s Irish cream
2 dashes grenadine syrup
Pour the Midori into the shot glass. Next, add the Advocaat into the glass. Add a few dashes of grenadine and then float the Bailey’s on top.
After yesterday’s foray into the Jambalaya shot that tasted nothing like jambalaya (nor was it really intended to) and our recent post on the Mounds Bar shot (which was awesome ! ), we thought today’s recipe should be nothing that even suggests food. So we polled the rest of the office staff for a good suggestion—as we sometimes do to try and involve people——and someone came up with the Squashed Frog.
That name definately didn’t conjure up fantasies of delicious quisine.
But it did sound rather interesting and calls for a liqueur that we haven’t explored yet on ShareMyShot. It does employ a couple of our old friends in the Midori melon liqueur and the Baileys. And I think the grenadine syrup (usually red) is meant to infer the “squashed” element of the frog. Of course, the Midori provides the green element of the squashed frog.
What we haven’t yet had as a component in any of our prior 100+ recipes is the liqueur known as advocaat. It is a rich and creamy liqueur made from eggs, sugar, and brandy. While only about 30 proof, it has a smooth, custard-like flavor. The drink is Dutch in origin, but is produced in a handful of countries around the world. You can typically find a bottle in the States for around $14-20 at a decent liquor store. Bols and Warninks both offer an advocaat selection.
Now back in his usual role of office lackey after filling in admirably on the taste panel last week, Keith ran down to the liquor store we get our supplies from and procured a bottle of Bols Advocaat liqueur for us. We also called on Tony, the part-time bartender, to prepare the shots for us because we did want to capture the correct aesthetic quality of the shot.
The panel did have to admit that once prepared, you could convince your mind that there was a squashed, liquid frog in the shot glass. As mentioned, the green of the Midori melon, the red of the grenadine, and the overall thickness of the shooter–thanks to the advocaat gave the image of a squashed frog in a shot glass.
However, that didn’t prevent us from trying the thing. And we were all glad that we did. This was a damn good shot ! I am now a new fan of this advocaat liqueur. I wasn’t too familiar with it before this recipe. I’d heard of it….but I’m not exactly sure that I had ever tasted it before. And combined with the smoothness of the Baileys, it really added a terrific flair to the Midori melon flavoring. The shot was a tad thicker than most shots if you don’t like that sort of thing. But it went down smooth and there was honestly an after-taste that made me think I had taken a small spoonful of pudding. But in a good way.
ShareMyShot gives this aptly named shooter a 4 on a scale of 5. It is creative, it employed some original ingredients, and it tasted awesome. The only thing preventing it from achieving a perfect 5 on our scale was the lack of punch. It’d probably take 5-7 of these to feel anything. But it is a good conversation starter and the panel enjoyed discussing it thoroughly. So we gave it a very respectable 4 on our scale.
I wonder if it would go well served with some fried frog legs ?
Cheers !!
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Written by ShareMyShot on March 2nd, 2010
Jambalaya
1/2 oz. Hiram Walker peach schnapps
1/2 oz. Southern Comfort peach liqueur
1/2 oz. Baja Bob’s Sweet and Sour mix
1 dash grenadine syrup
Shake the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a shot glass. Enjoy !
Today we have a shot that a friend suggested. It has a bit of a deceiving moniker in that it shares the name of yet another delicious food/meal. However just in hearing the ingredients, you know that the shot isn’t going to taste like its namesake. There’s just no way. And even if it did, as much as I love jambalaya, I don’t know if I want to throw down a bunch of shots that taste like this hardy Southern dish.
I mean……..a Twinkie or a Snickers candy bar…….yes. Even a favorite cereal like Apple Jacks or Honeycomb. But jambalaya? I’d rather have the real thing steaming hot in front of me at a good Cajun restaurant.
And a huge, heaping plate (or bowl) of good jambalaya is one of the best meals a person can have. I know a couple of friends who make an awesome homemade jambalaya—-including the guy who gave me this shot recipe. He whips up a batch two or three times a year, and always around Fat Tuesday. And seeing how Fat Tuesday wasn’t that long ago, he must have made a huge pot of it and had jambalaya on his mind when he suggested this shooter.
BUT……..if you want the best jambalaya I’ve come across in these parts, you have to go to Buddy Guy’s Legends nightclub in the city. Blues legend Buddy Guy is a Chicago icon and he has had a club on S. Wabash for many, many years {although he just personally played his last dates at the club and it will be moving down the street just a bit later this year}.
Served with a huge hunk of some of the best homemade cornbread that I’ve ever tasted, the jambalaya at Legends is to die for. And order it with a side dish of okra. While not overtly spicy so as to turn you off, it has the perfect amount of kick. And it is chock full of chicken and sausage and the plate takes up your whole side of the table.
So how does the shot Jambalaya fit into all this? Unfortunately, not very well.
I could see some enterprising mind try and make a shot that tastes like the actual dish. I mean, certain shot recipes we consider sampling at ShareMyShot call for everything from a dash of salt to hot peppers to tabasco sauce. I imagine you could start off with some Wild Turkey and spice it up a bit and make some attempt at the flavor of jambalaya. But this shooter has a distinct peach base and really makes no effort at capturing the essence of jambalaya. We have no idea why the shot is named as it is and research on the matter yielded nothing.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I am not a big fan of peach-oriented shots and neither are a few other members of the panel. So when a shot’s two main ingredients are peach flavored, it has its work cut out for it as far as impressing us. And the addition of sweet and sour mix and grenadine syrup didn’t sway our opinion.
ShareMyShot gives this shooter a ZERO on a scale of 5. Some panel members thought that may be a little harsh. But the flavor was severely lacking. The shot only had two weak liquor ingredients, so it doesn’t even have as much kick as an actual, spicy plate of good jambalaya. And the creativity just wasn’t there either.
Forget trying this shot and just head down to Buddy Guy’s Legends. You’ll thank us.
Cheers !!
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