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Wednesday, 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 !!
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Wednesday, 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 !!
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Thursday, 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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Wednesday, 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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Tuesday, 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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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Just Shoot Me
1/3 oz. Jim Beam bourbon whiskey
1/3 oz. Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey
1/3 oz. Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky
1/3 oz. Jose Cuervo Especial gold tequila
1/3 oz. Jagermeister herbal liqueur
1/3 oz. Bacardi 151 proof rum
Mix over ice and pour into a large shot glass. Enjoy !
Today ShareMyShot.com is very proud to share their 100th recipe with their readers. We’ve been around about 5 months now and when you start a new business as unique as this one, no one is sure exactly how long it will last. When I was first approached to come and work for ShareMyShot and they told me what the job entailed, I was a non-believer. I mean, really? Someone actually wanted me to come into work every day and suggest alcoholic shots to sample? And then give them a write-up/review based on what the entire panel of taste testers felt about the shooter?
It sounded like that episode of Cheers when Norm Peterson was given a job at the beer brewery as a taster.
I knew that the people behind the concept for ShareMyShot had a big office building in the ‘burbs where they actually oversee about 125-150 various websites. They have bloggers and researchers and IT experts and all that good stuff. So I knew it wasn’t some little upstart looking to throw out a little website. I knew they were serious about the concept. But to have a 6 person taste team comprised of three men and three women just to taste shots? Sounded like Xanadu.
Well, it turns out that the shot tasting (and my posts about them) are just a fraction of the job tasks we perform. The taste panel does contribute to several other of the websites on the company roster in various functions. But I’ll be damned if the initial invitation wasn’t true. Come in each day and sample a shot recipe and then share it with our readers.
God Bless America !!
So today…..for our 100th shot recipe…….we give to you the Just Shoot Me shot. We wanted to come up with something a little special. Something creative. Not just your two-ingredient basic shooter. Or something that involved whipped cream or milk or even 7-UP. We thought we owed it to our reader to offer up something today with some balls.
And Just Shoot Me has some balls, lemme tell ya.
The shot could almost be called the Five J’s if the Bacardi 151 wasn’t in the recipe. The first five ingredients all are labels that start with the letter J. But I think the monicker it does have is pretty appropriate. Do not deviate from the exact recipe. It calls for three of the kings in the bourbon/whisky market. It doesn’t get much better than Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, and Johnnie Walker. They’ve been good buddies of mine going back to high school.
Then we have the most recognized name in the tequila market. Many people have a more preferred brand of tequila (I think Patron is the best). But one has to admit that when you ask a ” lay person ” to name a brand of tequila, Jose Cuervo is often the first answer given.
And what would a shot called Just Shoot Me be without a little Bacardi 151 proof rum and some Jagermeister in there?
This is the type of shot that we used to call rocket fuel when we were teenagers. We’d pour a little bit of five or six liquors into a container so the parents wouldn’t notice the lower levels in their stash. All of it mixed together. It was tough as hell to drink, but it accomplished its goal for some 16 and 17 year olds looking to party. This shot reminded a few panel members of those days.
This was a tough shot to assign a ranking. The overall taste was rather spotty. When you mix six different types of liquor together, it’s tough to end up with an awesome tasting shot. The three types of bourbon/whiskey weren’t so bad blended together. But the other three components are so unique in their flavors that it created a hodgepodge that ended up pretty rough.
However, we assign a ranking to a shot also based on creativity, the quality of the ingredients involved, and the kick the shot has. And in these three categories, the shot really shined. So there was a lot of debate on whether to give this bad boy a 3 or a 4 on our scale. So we decided to let our guest panelist for the week Keith make the call.
ShareMyShot gives Just Shoot Me, our 100th shot, a 4 on a scale of 5.
And if you disagree, please send all hate mail to office lackey Keith.
Cheers !!
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Love Potion
1 oz. Absolut vodka
1 oz. Amaretto almond liqueur
1 oz. 99 Peaches schnapps
1 oz. Tropicana orange juice (no pulp)
1 oz. cranberry juice
Pour all of the ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake well and serve on the rocks (or without ice in a double shot glass). Enjoy !
If you read yesterday’s column, then you know that today’s recipe was submitted by Keith, whom we usually refer to as the office lackey. However, he is a lackey no more. Today and for the rest of the week, he is a full-fledged member of the taste team panel.
We had told him to do a little research and select what he really believed to be a tasty shot for us to try. And we made it clear he was to be absolutely certain that it was not a shot we have already sampled or reviewed. So what does this promising young kid do? He brings in three different recipes just to be safe and said he thought this one was a shooter that ” both the women and the guys might like “.
I think he’s aiming for a full-time spot on our panel.
So today, courtesy of Keith, we’d like to share the Love Potion shot with you.
The vodka and orange juice combination is a quite natural pair (screwdriver). And none of us thought factoring in a little cranberry juice would exactly hurt anything. So the interesting part would be seeing how the amaretto and the peach schnapps blended in. You can feel free to substitute your favorite brand of vodka for this drink. We used both Absolut and Skyy labels and they both worked well within the recipe.
Now one thing we do want to point out is that not only does the recipe call for shaking the ingredients in a shaker with ice, but it also suggests that you serve it in a glass on the rocks. The insinuation being a hi-ball glass or something similar. We did not do that. The orange juice and the cranberry juice were already cold as obviously we keep them refrigerated. And upon shaking all of the ingredients with ice in a shaker, we didn’t feel the need to then also serve it on the rocks. We taste test shots at ShareMyShot….not cocktails exactly. So we just poured the concoction into double shot glasses and it was chilled enough for our palates.
The Love Potion provided for some lively discussion by the panel. Ironically enough, Keith wasn’t a huge fan of the shot, although he didn’t make any faces or think it outright sucked. But the rest of us seemed to enjoy it more than he did. This may be because we have tasted a shot that combined Absolut, amaretto, and orange juice before in a shot called the Dirty Diaper. That is not to say that this was a duplicate recipe, though. There were additional ingredients in the Dirty Diaper such as Midori melon liqueur and Chambord raspberry liqueur. So this was definately something different.
The Dirty Diaper earned a 4 out of 5 from our panel, so we obviously thought the flavor combination tasted good. However, this shot didn’t have quite the exotic fruit flavor. A few of us aren’t huge fans of peach schnapps and having that in the mix versus Chambord raspberry liqueur might have been the difference maker. As strange as it may sound, the Love Potion just wasn’t quite as good as the Dirty Diaper.
It’s kind of funny to even find myself typing that.
But we gave the Love Potion a 3 on a scale of 5. It was still decent tasting and somewhat creative. It doesn’t pack that much of a punch. So we thought that since it wasn’t quite on a level with the Dirty Diaper, it deserved a solid 3 on our scale.
Thanks for doing a good job on your homework Keith, and maybe tomorrow we’ll find a recipe more to your liking.
Cheers !!
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Butt Pirate
1 1/2 oz. Captain Morgan spiced rum
1 1/2 oz. DeKuyper Buttershots liqueur
Shake both ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a shot glass. Enjoy !
One of the funnier (so he believes) guys on the taste panel brought this one in to the office citing it as his tribute to the Olympics. He said he was watching the men’s figure skating competition and it made him remember this shot recipe. Much like Jay Leno, he was his own best audience as he really cracked himself up with that joke. But he soon stopped laughing when one of the women on the taste team just casually asked him what he was doing watching the men’s figure skating to begin with?
He didn’t have an answer and eventually just cried out, ” Are we going to try this damn shot or not ? ”
Touchy….touchy.
Obviously the shot has nothing to do with the Olympics or men’s figure skating or anything like that. The name is derived from the two ingredients. Captain Morgan rum is named after a famous pirate and they use the pirate theme heavily in their logo and marketing. And the butt in this Butt Pirate obviously is from the DeKuyper Buttershots component.
So once the bad jokes and the insensitive remarks were over with, the group was ready to get up close and personal with the Butt Pirate. See how this bad boy tasted on our wet, wagging tongues.
Lord, I apologize for that there one…and please be with them pygmies down in New Guinea. {Larry the Cable Guy}
Anyway, we finally got down to business and when we tasted the shooter, one of the more serious and intelligent ladies on the panel said it tasted pretty damn close to a shot we tried about three or four months ago. And it hadn’t dawned on any of us how close the recipes were until she pointed it out. Back in September 2009, we tried the shot called Maple Syrup which was comprised of Captain Morgan and butterscotch schnapps.
This shot was basically the same thing with DeKuyper Buttershots replacing regular old butterscotch schnapps. The flavor was very close to tasting like maple syrup although (as we noted in September) it is thinner than a big spoonful of actual maple syrup. It tastes pretty good if you like sweeter tasting shooters.
So not only does this dipshit on our panel:
1) think he’s funny (he’s not)
2) insult the Olympics and our talented US men figure skaters (but he also)
3) brings in a damn recipe that we basically have tried before and already written about
Someone suggested that we kick him off of the panel for the rest of the week and replace him with office lackey Keith. Which is exactly what we did. And we told Keith to do some research and provide tomorrow’s recipe…..one that we haven’t seen before !
You’d have thought Keith just won the gold in the men’s freestyle skate. Talk about excited over a three day promotion. He stopped just short of thanking the Motion Picture Academy of America, the Dalai lama, and Emily Dickinson for chrissakes.
ShareMyShot gives the Butt Pirate a 4 on a scale of 5 —just as we did the Maple Syrup shot. It tasted very good and we gave credit for the creativity of the name. And if you drink enough of these, you just may find yourself watching the men’s figure skating competition yourself. So in the end, the Butt Pirate earned a 4 from the panel.
Cheers !!
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Psychedelic Tiger
3/4 oz. Kahlua coffee liqueur
3/4 oz. Monin Gomme Syrup
3/4 oz. Grenadine syrup
1 1/2 oz. Blue Curacao liqueur
First, put the Kahlua at the bottom of a large shot-glass. Next pour in the gomme syrup. The gomme syrup sinks to the bottom. Then add a splash of the grenadine in the middle. It will sink through the kahlua and create a lava-lamp type of effect. Finally, add the Blue Curacau on top of the Kahlua. Enjoy !
Today we have a rather interesting shot to share with you. In our never-ending pursuit of great tasting shooters, sometimes we come across one with a real aesthetic quality as well. For shots such as these, they have to be prepared correctly to enjoy the full visual effect. And as we’ve done in the past, we called on Tony from the sales department to assist us. He’s the guy who does some part-time bartending occasionally and prepared the Tiger Tail for us previously.
Now we have another tiger of a shot for him to prepare. With the Tiger Tail, there was color combination of white, dark, and orange that were layered to resemble the color of a tiger’s fur. In today’s shot, the goal is not so much to resemble the colors of a tiger rather than create the cool lava lamp effect as one component bounces off another as it is prepared.
I believe this is the first recipe that we have employed gomme syrup—which at its root is a sugar and water mixture commonly used in drinks to add a sweetening effect. It is also used frequently as a sweetener for iced coffee in Japan. We had to send the office lackey Keith down to the liquor store to score us a bottle for today’s recipe. You can pick up a bottle of Monin gomme syrup for about $8–9 which is what we used in our shots.
So by calling on both Keith and Tony for today’s Psychedelic Tiger, it really was a team effort and we thank them for their contributions.
Unfortunately, seeing the shot being prepared was a better experience than drinking the shooter itself. Tony was able to effectively capture the lava lamp effect after his first few tries. When the grenadine is added, it kind of exploded off the Kahlua and gomme syrup on the bottom. And the Blue Curcao stayed on top as it it was too thin to sink and kind of perched itself on top of the other ingredients.
However, the taste of the shot wasn’t that great. It wasn’t the worst shot we have tried by any means. But it was very sweet with both gomme syrup and grenadine involved. I’m not the hugest fan of Kahlua and the whole combination just had a funky ass flavor. Plus, it was a little thick. You have the thin Blue Curacao on top and then it got a wee bit sludge-y underneath. Not a great thing in a shot.
ShareMyShot gives this psychedelic shooter a 2 on a scale of 5. We give it credit for creativity and the visual effect. But the taste and the kick were pretty lacking. And it’s not a shot anyone was too willing to try too many of in order to see just how many it takes to give you a zing.
If you want a lava lamp effect, we suggest you go to Spencer’s or Walmart or somewhere and buy yourself a damn lava lamp. The Psychedelic Tiger really isn’t worth the effort.
Cheers !!
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Tarheel Shot
1 oz. Smirnoff Vanilla Twist vodka
1 oz. Godiva white chocolate liqueur
1/2 oz. Blue Curacao liqueur
Shake the first two ingredients in a cocktail mixer with ice. Strain into a shot glass. Add the Blue Curacao slowly until the appropriate color blue (North Carolina Tarheel blue) is obtained.
Today’s shot was brought in by one of the women on our panel that I’ve always gotten along with pretty well. Besides the obvious common interest we share of enjoying the pleasure in throwing down shots, she is a graduate of the University of North Carolina.
I’ve always been a huge Tarheels basketball fan since I was an adolescent. And I didn’t just hop on in 1983 when Michael Jordan was there. I had already been a fan a few years earlier when the likes of James Worthy and Sam Perkins hit the scene. And to me, Dean Smith is the best college coach ever. Of course, Jordan enhanced the program even more. But the stars just never stopped coming….Brad Daugherty, J.R. Reid, Rasheed Wallace, Jerry Stackhouse, Vince Carter, and most recently Tyler Hansbrough.
It never ends out there in Chapel Hill. They just keep winning.
Except this year, the Heels are only 14-11. Katie (the girl on our taste test panel) and I have been suffering. But when one is suffering, there’s always downing a few shots to drown your sorrows. So today Katie brought in her recipe for the Tarheel shot. And after a few groans from some of the other panel members who have grown tired of our North Carolina banter, the mood swung around when she gave us the ingredients.
The shot is a nice combination of vanilla vodka and a high quality white chocolate liqueur that we have used previously—-Godiva. Actually, we have used Godiva’s chocolate liqueur in the past. Their white chocolate liqueur is outstanding as well. It is exceptionally rich, silky smooth, creamy, and delicious.
The blue curacao is chiefly used to shade the shot into a light blue color that is the trademark of North Carolina sports teams. If you are a fan, the motto is that you “bleed blue”.
Which Katie and I do.
The shot itself was delicious and we may have even earned a few converts to the Tarheels. The vanilla vodka meshed beautifully with the white chocolate liqueur to make a creamy concoction that tasted like a little piece of white chocolate candy bar that you let dissolve on your tongue. However, it wasn’t so thick that it tasted like melted ice cream or anything. The thinness of the vodka prevents that from happening.
You have to carefully add the blue curacao so as not to make the drink too blue. It isn’t supposed to be a dark shade; it is closer to “sky blue”. Maybe just a tiny little bit more blue than that….but not much. So this is why you should add that last ingredient after you have poured the vodka and white chocolate liqueur into the shot glass.
ShareMyShot gives this first team All American, NCAA champion of shots a 4 on a scale of 5. The creativity and unique appearance of the shot were there. The taste was awesome. The only thing missing from a perfect score was the power behind the shot. It would likely take several of these to ring your bell. But I could see myself doing several when the Tarheels win their next NCAA Tournament crown.
Perhaps the greatest part of today’s taste session was watching another panel member reluctantly acknowledge how good this shooter was.
He graduated from Duke University. And if you know anything about college basketball rivalries, you know how painful and difficult that was for him.
Cheers !!
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