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Happy Birthday Motherf*cker

Thursday, 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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G Spot

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

G Spot

1 oz.             Jagermeister herbal liqueur
1 oz.             Bacardi O (orange) rum
1/4 oz.          99 Oranges schnapps
2 oz.             cranberry juice 

Add all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and pour into large shot glass. Enjoy !

The name behind today’s shot is one of those entities that sometimes causes great debate. The debate is whether it really exists or not. Is it a very sensitive, true part of the female anatomy? Or is it just as mythical as unicorns and the pot of gold at the end of every rainbow? Personally, I’d have to say that it is a mythological concept. Or at least that’s what the handful of women I’ve known in my life would likely tell you. Much like the Fountain of Youth, I’ve never seen it or knocked on its door.

But then again, perhaps that’s just a personal problem. I mean, give me a break ! I work for an organization called ShareMyShot, I do drink like Dudley Moore in Arthur, and I can’t exactly claim to be 100% on top of my game all the time. OK ??

But the female members of the taste team claim it is a non-fictional, true place. A wonderful place. A fabulous place. Although they said I shouldn’t feel bad because very few men have ever entered thru the elusive gates. That was a unanimous claim by the women.

Regardless, the shot called G Spot does exist and we were intent on exploring this one. Dammit, there is nothing we won’t do in the name of research for our loyal readers.

A few weeks ago, while doing some similar research on Spank the Monkey {see 1/13/10 post}, we tried the very fruity schnapps called 99 Bananas. It made a really strong contribution to the shooter as that shot earned our highest mark; 5 on a scale of 5. The G Spot calls for another flavor in the 99 family distributed by the Barton/Sazerac people. This time it is 99 Oranges and is accompanied by Bacardi O orange rum.

We figured that the orange rum, the very orangy schnapps, and the cranberry juice would make a fresh, fruity flavor with some zest to it. What we were curious to see is how the Jagermeister component influenced the shot.

The shot is served chilled, which is somewhat obvious as a cold glass of orange juice is much more tasty than a warm glass that’s been sitting out for a while. It went down very smooth and the thick, sometimes syrupy nature of Jagermeister was thinned out by the other ingredients. And those other ingredients lent such a distinct orange flavor to the mix that the Jager was quite tolerable and contributed to the overall taste rather than dominated it. The cranberry juice toned down the black licorice tang to acceptable levels.

ShareMyShot gives this evasive, sexy shooter a 4 on a scale of 5. It may have just been my imagination running wild, but after our 4th round in the taste room, I thought I noticed the girls squirming around a bit more than usual. And in a really good mood too. This just may have been the closest I have ever come in contact to a true, verifiable G Spot.

But I am willing to do as much field research as necessary to actually confirm a “hit”.

Cheers !!

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Drunken Bunny

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Drunken Bunny

1 oz.   Bacardi orange rum
1 oz.   Blue Curacao liqueur
1 oz.   Midori melon liqueur
1/2 oz.    whipped cream 

Mix the first three ingredients together in a cocktail glass. The color should turn bright turquoise. Top with whipped cream, and serve.

How coincidental that today’s shot recipe is named Drunken Bunny. Because that’s exactly what I was most of this weekend. A few friends and I took a little road trip out to St. Louis, MO just on a whim. We used to pass thru there frequently in our younger days heading to one good time or another. Unfortunately, not so much the past few years. But there are two stops that we make every time we go to St. Louis.

The first is a sweet Italian restaurant called Rigazzi’s in the section of town known as “the Hill”. It may be the oldest restaurant on the Hill. But I was first introduced to it in the late ’80s by my cousin. It’s been a popular place for the local NHL team, the Blues. When I first went there, they had pictures of Paul and Gino Cavallini on the wall—who were arch enemies of my beloved Blackhawks back then. Today they have more of the recent/current stars of the team. The bar is known for the great food and the fishbowl size beers they serve. That’s right—fishbowl sized beers.

On this trip, we had dinner and a few bowls of beer at Rigazzi’s and then went to our usual second stop. A friend of ours bartends at a little sports pub in town called Offsides. We always try and stop in to see him when we go to St. Louis whether we know he’s working or not. Turns out, he was.

And upon hearing we just had a nice dinner at Rigazzi’s, he said he had a little dessert shot for us to try.

He whipped up this concoction exactly per the recipe posted. We can’t recommend substituting for any of the ingredients. When we offer up a recipe that a person who works directly in the spirits industry suggests, we strongly encourage you to stick with the original recipe. And in this case, there aren’t all that many viable alternatives for the actual ingredients.

Plus, the color of this shooter is important too. It is part of the aesthetic appeal of the shot—intending to be almost as key as the taste of it. Substituting different brands or liqueurs may alter the desired color. When our bartender friend Randy Palmieri mixed up a batch of these, they were indeed a sharp turquoise hue. When you mix blue (the Curacao) and green (the melon liqueur), you usually get turquoise if I remember 8th grade art class correctly.

The taste is quite pleasant. I’m not much for whipped cream on a shot. On top of some ice cream or on my woman’s belly button—sure. But I don’t top off my shots with whipped cream too often. Bartender Randy did say from the get-go that it was a dessert shot. The taste is actually hard to describe; not exactly tropical fruity….not harsh at all…..sweet, but not sickening sweet……..just smooth and pleasant.

ShareMyShot .com gives this St. Louis suggestion a 3 on a scale of 5. It’s creative and the color is eye-catching. The taste is enjoyable. But it is a dessert shot and doesn’t pack much of a punch. I could do without the whip cream myself, but we didn’t subtract any points for it. We almost gave this recipe a 4, but later agreed it was probably because of the fun we were having hanging out with our pal Randy and the fine meal we had at Rigazzi’s. Another great night in the cool city of St. Louis.

 A Midwest must-go.

Cheers !!!

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