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Butt Pirate

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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Dirty Bong Water

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Dirty Bong Water
 
1/2 oz.         Chambord raspberry liqueur
1/2 oz.         Blue Curacao liqueur
1/2 oz.         Amaretto almond liqueur
1/2 oz.         Captain Morgan spiced rum
1/2 oz.         Mr and Mrs T Sweet and Sour mix 

Pour ingredients in a cocktail mixer with ice. Shake gently and pour into a large shot glass. Enjoy !

Today’s recipe for Dirty Bong Water is one of those that can be served as a shot or a full-fledged drink. If you wanted to double the ingredients, or multiple them by 1.5, you can simply pour it into an old fashioned glass on the rocks and enjoy it as a regular drink. But as in many cocktails, you can also fraction the ingredients and create a shooter as we have done for today’s formula.

Usually when one thinks of dirty bong water, the image is not too appealing. Back in high school when we were passing around a bingo, sometimes there was one guy who would pull the slider (the bowl part) to clear the tube and inhale a bit too hard—–pulling a nasty dose of dirty bong water into his mouth and onto his lips. For the rest of us, it was pretty damn funny. But if you were ever on the receiving end of that vile splash of resinated water, it wasn’t too comical.

And God help you if someone knocked the bong over and the water poured out on your mother’s carpet. The stink was terrible and the stain didn’t come out all that easy.

But as if often the case, original uneasiness was tamed a bit when we were given the ingredients. Since starting at ShareMyShot, I can’t recall having a terrible experience with any shot involving Chambord raspberry liqueur. And when I’m not doing shots, I drink Captain Morgan rum like they’re about to pull it off the market or something. Of course, I wasn’t sure how well the two would go together. I know that we combined Chambord and amaretto in the recipe for the Dirty Diaper, which earned a 4 on our rating scale. So those two elements are a solid pairing.

Anyway, we had all of the ingredients on hand and got down to business. It turns out that the four main ingredients worked well together and the whole mixture was balanced nicely by the sweet and sour mix. Blue Curacao has a slight orangish taste, but can be a tad bitter for some people. And sweet and sour mix has a lemon, lime, and sugar base that is sweet in one regard and can be slightly tart at the same time. These ingredients, with their almost contradictory personalities, were complemented nicely by the Chambord raspberry liqueur. The rum and the amaretto did not interfere with the fruity aspect of the other libations. At least not in any foul, negative way. They were present, but did not dominate.

ShareMyShot gives this soothing shooter a 4 on a scale of 5. It would be a wonderful shot to throw down after enjoying a spliff (or a good cigar for those who don’t partake). Sort of a chaser after a fine smoke, if you will. It is tasty and somewhat fruity with a pleasant, lingering aftertaste.

And probably not as many calories as scarfing down a whole bag of potato chips or a box of Mac n’ Cheese to cure those munchies.

Cheers !!

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Kryptonite

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Kryptonite

3 /4  oz.           Captain Morgan Original spiced rum
3 /4  oz.           Malibu coconut rum
3 /4  oz.           Midori melon liqueur
3 /4  oz.           Dole pineapple juice
1 splash           Bacardi 151 rum 

Combine all of the ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into a shot glass and serve. Enjoy !

Today’s recipe is for those of you who like your rum. It employs the three biggest names in the American rum consuming business. Not that all of them are American-made brands; the Bacardi family and their plant originate from Puerto Rico. {If you ever fly into San Juan and have a few hours to kill, by all means visit the Bacardi plant}. We’re just saying that the three labels involved in this recipe are the most commonly recognized / stocked rums in American bars and liquor stores.

You have your Captain Morgan rum which seems to be the most popular rum on the market over the last few years based on a huge advertising campaign. Whenever I go to bars these days or take a girl out, the popular drink is Captain and Coke or Captain and Sprite.

Then you have the tasty Malibu coconut rum and the more potent Bacardi 151 rum.

The other components to this shot that would allegedly bring Superman himself to his knees are our old friend Midori melon liqueur and pineapple juice. The recipe says to use Dole pineapple juice, but really you could use any damn pineapple juice you want. You could probably even go with a different brand of melon liqueur like the usual suspects: Potter’s, Bols, Hiram Walker, or DeKuyper.

We made our shooters straight from the recipe. We wanted to see if this rum-heavy bad boy would really take us to the Fortress of Solitude or would it end up being Lois Lame.

The shot wasn’t too bad, but it didn’t blow any of our socks off on the taste team. It was fruity tasting thanks to the coconut rum and the pineapple juice. The melon liqueur was a little hard to identify. It tasted slightly Pina Colada-esque. The taste team tried several rounds of this supposedly lethal weapon, but we must be a little tougher than the ol’ Man of Steel. While we did feel a little bit of a zing after five rounds, it was more tasty than powerful. And it wasn’t quite as tasty as some of the recipes we have had the privilege to sample lately.

ShareMyShot gives this rummy combination a 3 on a scale of 5. We give it credit for trying hard. But in the end, there was no getting past that it was a union of the Big 3 rum brands with a little pineapple juice in it. Oh yeah…and the hardly discernable melon liqueur. It is a pleasant tasting, soothing little number. But we just couldn’t give it a higher grade due to its limited creativity and so-so kick.

I think Superman could put away a bunch of these before he started to feel his super powers start to fade.

Cheers !!

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Screwin’ around with the egg nog

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Screwin’ around with the egg nog

One of the things I and a few others at ShareMyShot.com really like about Christmas is that it’s egg nog season.

Some people don’t like it. It’s very rich and the thickness of it can be a turn-off to some. But to the people who work at a company such as ours, egg nog = opportunity. The opportunity to try a bunch of new egg nog mixes that most of us are unfamiliar with, as well as the opportunity to indulge in the more popular egg nog “bombs”.

You can keep things extremely simple by taking a double-size shot glass and filling it 3/4 with egg nog. And top it off with 1/4 of Captain Morgan rum. Maybe even drop a pinch of nutmeg on it for good measure. The famous Rum n’ Egg Nog. I’ve already had several of those this season at home. Good stuff.

And you can take a similar glass of egg nog and add a shot of peppermint, cinnamon, or butterscotch schnapps. All go pretty well with the egg nog. We’ll call these Egg Nog Bombs.

But those are the basic recipes that people have been drinking since the elusive ”nog root” was first discovered in the jungles of Peru over three centuries ago. OK….that’s total bullshit. I have no idea where egg nog originated. Nor does anyone else on the sample team. We have sent that question to Research and Development to answer. Those are the most basic of egg nog combinations, though.

So let’s sample a few other concoctions and see how they fare.

Here’s a recipe to serve several people:

Very Merry Egg Nog

This is a great “adult” version of the popular holiday beverage. It does not taste potent, but really packs a punch if you drink enough of ‘em!
 
12 oz.      Bacardi dark rum
4 oz.        Southern Comfort peach liqueur
4 oz.        creme de cacao
1 cup             berry sugar
1 quart                milk
1 quart            ice cream
12                   egg whites
12                     egg yolks
1/8 tsp               nutmeg 

Combine the ice cream, milk, sugar, egg yolks, and alcohol together in bowl and beat with electric beaters (you can also use a blender and do it in increments). Fold in the egg whites. Chill and serve with a sprinkle of nutmeg. Enjoy.

This recipe tasted wonderful. One of the women on the sample team is quite familiar with this recipe as she prepares it for her relatives every Christmas. The alcohol within is very subtle and hard to detect. The blend is very creamy and distictly different in taste (on the positive side) from the cartons you buy at Jewel or Wal-Mart. This is a fine holiday egg nog.

Here’s another recipe we researched:

Egg Nog – Country Style

1 cup           Applejack brandy
2 cups               sugar
1 pint              whole milk
1 pint            heavy cream
6                         eggs 

Mix the eggs and sugar together until they are well blended. SLOWLY add the brandy. (If added too fast, the eggs will break) Add in the whole milk. Add 1/2 of the heavy cream.

In a seperate bowl, whip the other 1/2 of the heavy cream until stiff (soft peak stage will work as well). Fold whipped cream into mixture.
Chill and enjoy!

 This too was enjoyed tremendously by everyone on the taste team. As with most foods/drink, homemade recipes just seem to taste better than the brand-name crap we all buy at the store. The difference is totally worth the effort….especially once or twice a year. The creaminess that the milk, cream, and eggs combine to create–plus the apple brandy resulted in a unique taste that I’ve never gotten out of a cardboard carton.

So give one of these recipes a try or just toss down a couple of Rum n’ Egg Nogs after you get home from work in one of those sloppy grid-lock snowstorms. Just take advantage of the one month per year where it’s OK to gorge on egg nog and other holiday treats……….

Like hot chocolate and Bailey’s. But that’s for another day.

Cheers !!

  

 

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The Bomb Squad

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Try One of These Bombs on For Size

We thought we’d try something a little different today. Rather than just offer you one recipe, we thought it might be rewarding to explore the world of BOMBS. Like the trend toward microbrews in the ’90s and the cigar-smoking craze that still has a lot of steam behind it, it seems like over the last few years “bombs” have become quite a shot-drinking trend. 

A friend of mine and I have a little tradition of drinking JagerBombs whenever we’re hanging out at his house playing pool or darts. He’ll start it off by the second game or so by casually asking, “So are you bombin’ or what?”

Of course I’m bombin’. So he’ll pour the first round and after that, the loser of each game has to go upstairs and prepare the next round. There’s really no shame in pouring a round of shots for you and one of your boys. It’s the insult of “serving” the other guy by way of losing and having to go upstairs. We could bring the ingredients downstairs by us, but then the punishment wouldn’t be so harsh. But we have a lot of fun and are typically a little bit lit up by the end of the night. I often sleep on his couch to practice good judgement.

The JagerBomb is perhaps the most popular of the bombs on the bar scene. It’s very simple in that you mix a few fingers of Jagermeister in a small glass (not a shot glass….more like a hi-ball glass) with a finger or so of Red Bull energy drink. At least that’s how we make them….not too scientificly accurate. We make them a little strong and ours are often a half-glass or so in volume. You guzzle them down and they don’t taste too bad. While I personally am not the hugest fan of Jagermeister, the worst part about them is buying the damn Red Bull. Because it is so expensive, my buddy and I started experimenting with other bombs.

In a previous recipe on ShareMyShot, we offered up a sweet combination called Maple Syrup. That exact same recipe (half Captain Morgan/half butterscotch schnapps) is often referred to as a Captain’s Bomb. Just depends on who you’re hanging out with. I always called it Maple Syrup because that’s pretty close to what it tastes like. It tastes like you took a little swig out of a bottle of Aunt Jemima. But for the sake of today’s discussion, that same recipe is AKA the Captain’s Bomb.

And God forbid if we forgot to mention this world-famous bomber:

Irish Car Bomb

Irish Car Bomb is one of the most popular drinks amongst cool people who like to have fun. The ingredients are simple and available in most any decent bar. Beer lovers and shot lovers alike enjoy it.  

3/4 pint Guinness stout
1/2 shot Bailey’s Irish cream
1/2 shot Jameson Irish whiskey 

Add the Bailey’s and Jameson to a shot glass, layering the Bailey’s on the bottom. Pour the Guinness into a pint glass or beer mug 3/4 of the way full and let settle. Drop the shot glass into the Guinness and chug it. If you don’t drink it fast enough it will curdle and taste increasingly worse. So just chug the damn thing!

Here’s one that should get your attention:

Mind Bomb

1 1/2 oz.   Everclear alcohol
1 1/2 oz.   Bacardi 151 rum
1 1/2 oz.   strawberry schnapps
1 tbsp.       grenadine syrup 

Pour all ingredients into a hi-ball glass half-filled with ice cubes, stir it and serve it. Be careful….don’t have too many of these at one time.

Obviously with both Everclear and Bacardi 151, this one packs a good punch. But it’s not bad for a bachelor party or a New Year’s Eve bash where anyone with brains isn’t drinking & driving anyway.

Finally, we thought we’d leave you with this little ditty:

Hector Bomb
 
1/2    bottle Corona beer
1 shot   1800 tequila 

Fill a glass with the half-bottle of Corona beer. Pour a shot of the 1800 tequila. Squeeze a lime wedge into the shot glass, and place the lime wedge into the shot. When you are ready to drink, drop the shot into the glass of Corona and chug it down.

This is an off-shoot of the Irish Car Bomb. But many of the newest “car bombs” out there are similar to the ICB as you take a shot of a harder liquor and drop it into a glass of something more palatable (or “chuggable”). For instance, with a New York City Car Bomb, you take 2 oz. of Hennessey cognac, pour it into your Heineken beer, and chug that. So many of the popular “car bombs” are a variation of the ICB.

We at ShareMyShot give a collective 5 on a scale of 5 for the “bomb” craze. Some are better than others, but they are a fun little niche in the shot drinking world to play around with.

Cheers !!

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The Legspreader

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Legspreader

1 oz.  Gordon’s gin
1 oz.  Jose Cuervo 1800 tequila
1 oz.  Captain Morgan rum  
1 oz.  Absolut vodka
 
 
Pour the ingredients in equal parts into a shot glass. With this shot, you may want to use a hurricane glass. Typically this shot is not served chilled. The ingredients are typically right behind a decently-stocked bar. Tilt your head back and enjoy.

You can switch up on the brands of some of these ingredients. For instance, if you don’t have Absolut vodka on-hand, feel free to go with a more traditional brand such as Smirnoff. If you happen to have Skyy vodka behind your bar instead of Absolut, that is a perfect substitute.

In the same token, don’t feel you have to go with Gordon’s gin. You can use Fleishmann’s or even Beefeater instead.

This little bugger of a shot would knock anyone for a loop if they have more than one. Unfortunately, some intense field research conducted by the male staff at ShareMyShot.com was not able to lend concrete support to the shot’s name. However, one variable that could have greatly influenced the research is that most of the male staff in the office looks a little like Yasser Arafat.

But conduct your own research on this one. There aren’t any weak components to this shooter. No fruit juice or creme de whatever…..just your basic, honest liquors rolled into one firecracker. You don’t have to go shopping all over town for the special flavored schnapps or anything like that. We at ShareMyShot give this seductive treat a 4 on a scale of 5.

It may not turn your date into a legspreader——we make no promises on that. But then again, after two or three of these bad boys, it just might!

Cheers !

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Maple Syrup

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Maple Syrup

1/2 oz Captain Morgan spiced rum (original)
1/2 oz Butterscotch Schnapps

Stir the ingredients together in a small mixing glass with chipped ice. Strain into a shot glass, and serve. {Stick to Captain Morgan, but feel free to go with your favorite brand of butterscotch schnapps}.

Just like Mrs. Butterworth used to make, right? This tastes awesome and because you you mix it with the chipped ice, it gets just the slightest chill——not cold like Jagrmeister out of the fridge. It keeps the shot from tasting like a warm, thick shot of actual syrup in a shot glass. It makes it that much more palatable and tasty. And boy, does it ever taste like maple syrup! It’s one of those mixtures someone stumbled upon that tastes like a popular treat.

It’s an easy shot to make. Women love it and ask for another. It’s a good after-dessert shot. And we here at SaveMyShot.com give this a 4 on a scale of 5. Now is that going to be a short stack or a tall one?

I have to admit it; sometimes I’m a sucker for some of the sweeter shots. Every now and then, a nice watermelon-tasting shot or something like a Baby Guinness (see previous recipe on ShareMyShot.com) goes a little better than a shot of Old Granddad. After I have some sort of dessert at a wedding or at a family party, I’m not always in the mood for a belt of whiskey or tequila. That’s where an easy little number like this comes in.

Cheers !!

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3 Dollar Hooker

Monday, September 21st, 2009

3 Dollar Hooker

1 oz.        Bailey’s Irish cream (original)
1/2 oz.     Captain Morgan spiced rum (Are you feeling a little Captain tonite?)
1/2 oz.     Rumple Minze peppermint liqueur

Stir all of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into shot glasses. Enjoy.

Back in college when my boys came down to see me and party for the weekend, we had a little tradition that developed. Before we’d go out for the night, we’d crack a bottle of Rumple Minze Peppermint schnapps and pass the bottle around. We’d each do a shot……one-at-a-time……until the bottle was gone.

Only THEN was it time to go out on the town. In retrospect, it didn’t fare well for our stamina and behavior as the evening wore on. This Rumple Minze shot is a bit less trail-inducing for your vision, and goes really well with the other ingredients

We encourage you to stick with the Captain Morgan rum as we tried to use a substitute recently and it just didn’t taste the same to us. One tip for you, though—–if you absolutely can’t get your hands on Rumple Minze—–you can use Dr McGillicuddy’s Peppermint Liqueur in a pinch. But we stress that you should stick with the Rumple Minze (and the Captain Morgan) whenever possible.

This flavorful shot should be chilled. It goes down smooth as a baby’s bottom. I’d pay $5 for this hooker!

We at ShareMyShot.com give this one a 4 on a scale of 5.

Cheers !!

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