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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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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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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Damned If You Do
1 oz. Black Velvet Canadian whisky
1/2 oz. DeKuyper Hot Damn cinnamon schnapps
Pour into shot glass. Enjoy !
Today we have a somewhat basic shot, although it does call for a brand of Canadian whisky that we have not yet tried in any recipe.
Black Velvet whisky is a Canadian brand owned by the Diageo people (who are linked to the Guiness label) up there. It is a “whisky mix” meaning that it is a blend of various whiskies and is known for having a pretty strong taste. It’s been on the market for about 60-65 years now and you may have to look around a little bit to score a bottle. One of the unique things about Black Velvet whisky is that they employ a Black Velvet Girl in their marketing and advertising. Former Black Velvet Girls include Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Tiegs, Kim Alexis, and Cybill Shepherd.
You should be able to get a bottle of Black Velvet somewhere in the $14–17 range. And if you want to do a legitimate Damned If You Do shot, you have to use Black Velvet. As a shot with only two ingredients, they are both vital to the originality of the shooter. So you don’t really want to substitute for either the Canadian whisky or the Hot Damn cinnamon schnapps. If you do, the taste may still resemble a Damned If You Do, but really you’d be drinking something entirely different (that likely has a name all its own).
This shot wasn’t bad. We’ve tasted a number of whiskey/cinnamon schnapps combinations such as in the Kick Me in the Jimmy shot (Jack Daniels and Firewater among other ingredients) and the Cowboy Up shooter (Crown Royal and Firewater among other ingredients). So in order to really stand out for us, the whisky component has to play a big role.
The Black Velvet Canadian whisky really held its own here. It was allowed to stand out whereas in the other shots mentioned, they were part of a four or even five ingredient recipe. But with the Damned If You Do shot, it’s just the whisky and the schnapps. And they did work pretty well together. Both ingredients were at room temp and the shooter is a bit “hot” going down. The cinnamon flavor reared its head more in the aftertaste rather than immediately on the tongue/palate.
And after our third round, you could feel the punch that this shot can deliver. It’s the type of shot where the more you throw down, your forehead starts to warm up and your cheeks can get a tad flushed. Which is a good thing……not a bad thing….a good thing ! The type of shot that keeps one warm in the winter.
ShareMyShot.com gives the Damned If You Do a 3 on a scale of 5. It is a good tasting shooter. Then again, it only has two ingredients with those being a somewhat simple whisky/schnapps combo. So we had to deduct a point for limited creativity. All-in-all, a rock solid 3 on our scale.
You may be Damned If You Do, but we do recommend it. Cuz you’re really damned if you don’t.
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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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Mounds Bar
1 oz. Bols Creme de Cacao (Dark)
1 oz. Malibu coconut rum
Place the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and serve in a shot glass. Enjoy !
It’s been a little while since we shared a shot where it’s supposed to taste like a delicious food. Today we believe we have a pretty good one for you. Previously, we shared a recipe for Liquid Snickers. It received a 5 on our scale of 5 and tasted awesome. Today we present to you the Mounds Bar.
Now in that December 30 recipe for Liquid Snickers, I said that I absolutely love a Snickers bar. More than Mounds or Kit Kat. And that is true. But don’t get me wrong; a Mounds Bar or an Almond Joy are pretty freakin’ good too ! And I’ve never been one to turn my back on a Watchamacallit either. Or even just a regular ol’ Hershey’s Bar. Or M&M’s.
But I digress.
With its tasty combination of chocolate and coconut, a Mounds Bar has always been a sweet snack or lunch dessert. And the simple ingredients in today’s recipe do a really admirable job of capturing this fine confection. All you need is Malibu coconut rum—which just about any self-respecting home bar should have on its shelf. And you need a good label of creme de cacao (the dark variety). While the posted recipe calls for Bols Creme de Cacao, you can also feel free to use the slightly more expensive Marie Brizard Creme de Cacao. Both will suffice just fine for this scrumptious shooter.
And as simple as this 1-2 punch is, the panel positively loved it. The coconut and chocolate meld together to taste like a melted (or liquid) Mounds candy bar. It is pretty sweet tasting without being overwhelming or too rich. It goes down very smooth, although I myself am not even sure you need to shake it over ice. It tastes wonderful chilled…..and I know many people keep candy bars in their refrigerator….but I think it would be just as delicious if it were served at room temp. Just as many people keep their candy bars in a cupboard and eat them “warm” —-for lack of a better term.
Either way, this shot was enjoyed by all. However, we feel we can only give it a 4 on our scale of 5. That mark is almost entirely based on the awesome taste. But you’d have to drink a number of these to light your fire. And while the two-ingredient combination is interesting and a touch creative, it is still only two ingredients. The Liquid Snickers employed four components. We simply felt that of the two, the Liquid Snickers deserved a slightly higher mark for its creativity and multiple ingredients. But we certainly wanted to reward the Mounds Bar fairly for being as good as it is.
So if you are having a little dinner party with friends who would enjoy a sweet dessert shot, make up a batch of each. Let them decide which one is better. It would generate some fun conversation and you’ll save money on getting a more expensive traditional dessert.
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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Monday, February 15th, 2010
Oompa Loompa
1 oz. Bacardi Razz rum
1 oz. Stoli Razberi vodka
Pour the Bacardi Razz raspberry-flavored rum and the Stoli Razberi raspberry-flavored vodka into a large shot glass in equal parts. Enjoy !
After a short hiatus wherein the generous ownership group of the ShareMyShot corporation sent the staff of its handful of websites out to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl, we are back and ready to share more unique and delicious shot recipes. Before I get down to today’s shooter, I do want to thank the owner of the company and our Vice President for giving the staff such a wonderful experience when times are so tough. While in Vegas for the big game, we were able to do a lot of research and picked up a number of recipes from some of the club bartenders that we will be posting in the weeks to come.
Today’s shot is not one we picked up on in Vegas. But it does have a Las Vegas connection. There’s a rather infamous picture of me from about five years ago when I was standing on Fremont street in the older part of Vegas under the incredible canopy of colored lights. I have one of those football-sized beers in my hand (literally served in a full-size plastic football) and I’m obviously standing under a stretch of red lighting. Although I was not sun-burned in the least, my skin looks worse than John Candy’s burn in the movie Summer Rental.
I literally looked like I spent 24 hours in a tanning bed. My girlfriend and my best buddy give me shit to this day that I looked like an Oompa Loompa from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. To this day, whenever we are all hanging out together, they will both inevitably bring up the picture and start chanting the damn song……” Oompa, Loompa, doompadee doo. Oompa, Loompa, I’ve got another puzzle for you! “
Drives me nuts. Although I do admit I look pretty damn red in the picture.
Anyway, today’s shot is indeed an Oompa Loompa and it too is red in hue. It is a somewhat basic combination of two libations and you should not deviate from them. They are specific to getting the proper taste and color of a true Oompa Loompa. One ingredient is Bacardi Razz rum and the other is Stoli Razberi vodka. We have posted recipes utilizing both of these components in the past. They just weren’t combined together.
If you like raspberry flavor—-which personally I do—-then you will likely find this shooter to be a nice treat. The vodka and the rum work well together and there is a distinct raspberry jolt that makes it go down nice and smooth. A shot like this is hard-pressed to earn our highest marks because of its simplicity and small number of ingredients. But ShareMyShot does give it as high of a rating as we thought possible in rewarding it a 3 on a scale of 5.
There was a lot of discussion of giving the shot a 4, but with just the two ingredients we concluded that a 3 was as high as we could go. It would also take a good five or six rounds of this fruity shooter to rev your engines. So that was the deciding factor in sticking with a rating of 3.
Still, it is a shot that would make Willy Wonka and his whole team of Oompa Loompas proud. It is sweet in nature and very flavorful. A great shot for a group of friends out having fun that aren’t trying to prove their manhood or put hair on their chests.
Perhaps the only bad part of this shot is that now I’m gonna have that damn song in my head the rest of the day.
Cheers !!
Posted in 3 Star Shots, Bacardi Razz rum, Stoli Razberi vodka, berry flavored shots, comfort shots, dessert shots, flavored rum, flavored vodka, rum, vodka | No Responses »
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Fainting Goat
1/2 oz. Bacardi Limon rum
1/2 oz. Bacardi Coco rum
1/2 oz. Bacardi Vanila rum
1/2 oz. Bacardi O rum
1/2 oz. Bacardi Razz rum
1 splash cranberry juice
Combine all of the rums into a tumbler with ice. Add enough cranberry to turn the drink a light red color. Shake well and strain into a large shot glass. Enjoy !
No, we aren’t being paid a promotional fee by the folks at Bacardi to try this shooter. It was suggested to us by a bartender we know named Kathy. She works at the Smilin’ Goat Pub on 47th Street in Lyons, Illinois.
Actually, I was a little surprised that she was able to come up with this shot when I stopped in there the other day for a couple of cold ones. The Smilin’ Goat is definately a beer-and-a-shot bar. Don’t get me wrong…..it’s a cool little place with some friendly regulars and cutie pie Kathy there behind the bar. But it is a small place. And it’s definately not the type of place you associate with exotic drinks or expensive, creative shots. I wouldn’t have thought that they had all of these varieties of Bacardi behind the counter to fix this shot.
Well, it turns out (per Kathy) that they do not claim to have invented this shot at all. They heard about it elsewhere. But the name they were given was the Fainting Goat and both she and the owner of the Smilin’ Goat tried it and really liked it. So they thought it would be a nice “house shot” to offer at the Smilin’ Goat. They admit that not too many people order it, but they always have the Bacardi fixings “at the ready” for whenever someone does ask for one. The price deters many of the regulars at $8.50 per shot. But they say that sometimes a group of three or four of the “younger crowd will order a round when they’re celebrating something or just getting happy“.
Good enough explanation for us. We’re happy to give this rummy shot a try.
Obviously, it’s not all that hard to make; equal parts of the (5) different blends of Bacardi rum, and as the recipe states…enough cranberry to make the overall hue slightly reddish. It’s served chilled.
We found it to be a pretty tasty mix. We’ve used Bacardi O somewhat recently in the recipe for the G Spot. And almost all of us on the taste panel have tried the other flavors too—-the Bacardi vanilla blend, the Bacardi Limon, etc. So none of the ingredients were exactly foreign to us. It was just a matter of how good they would taste in one, single invention.
And as I said, the answer was pretty good. The lemon / lime citrus flavor of the Limon was pretty evident, as was the taste of raspberry from the Razz. Although we do acknowledge that particular tinge may have been enhanced or complemented by the addition of the cranberry juice. As far as the least evident flavor, it was somewhat hard to identify the vanilla thru all of the tangy fruit flavors. The coconut from the Coco blend may have disguised it somewhat.
This was a fun shot. We enjoyed trying to discern the various components. ShareMyShot gives this house shooter at the Smilin’ Goat in Lyons, Illinois a 4 on a scale of 5.
Stop on in and see our friend Kathy behind the bar. And order yourself a Fainting Goat while you’re at the Smilin’ Goat.
Cheers !!
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
Daddy’s Milk
1/2 oz. Marie Brizard Creme de Cacao Dark
1/2 oz. Potters Creme de Cacao White Liqueur
1/2 oz. Frangelico hazelnut liqueur
1 splash cream
Shake with ice in a cocktail mixer and strain into a shot glass. Enjoy!
Today we are sharing a somewhat different recipe in that it doesn’t call for any of the really “hard” stuff. There’s no rum, no whiskey or bourbon, no vodka, and no tequila. This one could definately be called more of a dessert shot. It is thicker in context than your usual shot and sometimes one has to be ready to down a shooter like this. Especially guys. If you are a hardcore bourbon drinker or a tequila man, you may feel like this is like drinking a shot of Pepto Bismol or Milk of Magnesia.
I myself have to trick my mind that I am swallowing the last little bit of some melted ice cream or something.
Today we offer you Daddy’s Milk. And I am happy to say that unlike last week when one of the office smart-asses felt compelled to try and be witty when we sampled the Stinky Weasel—and paid the price for it, no one uttered a word when this shot was presented. Although I did notice that a few of the female tasters did lick their lips slightly.
Lord, forgive me. I’ll pay for that one right there…..that’s for sure.
I was always more of a mother’s milk kind-of-guy as an infant. So I’m told.
But we saw that our old friend Frangelico hazelnut liqueur was involved along with another label we all appreciate in Marie Brizard and her dark creme de cacao. So we thought this one could have some real possibilities and whipped up a batch.
Now Marie Brizard also offers up a creme de cacao white blend and we often find it puzzling why a recipe would call for different brands in a situation such as this. Why go with Potters light creme de cacao when you can stay consistent with Marie Brizard? Perhaps the people behind the recipe simply prefer Potter’s light blend over Marie Brizard? Or perhaps it is a financial thing and they can only afford one bottle of the slightly more expensive Marie Brizard and had to “settle” for the Potters dark blend.
Who knows? But we feel that you can substitute here. Feel free to go with both the light and dark blends of Marie Brizard. Or the other way around using both blends of the Potters if that is what you can afford. But do stick with the Frangelico hazelnut liqueur as it has not disappointed us yet when used in prior recipes.
The shot was indeed a bit thicker than most, but it went down relatively smooth thanks to it being served chilled. I think it would have went down a bit harder if it was warm. Who likes warm milk? Or warm, melted ice cream that’s been sitting for a while? So it went down OK and it also had a very favorable flavor. It tasted a bit like hazelnut cocoa that you might buy at a convenience store like 7-11 on your way to work. Or at a joint like Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks.
By no means did it taste like coffee…….it just had that nutty, slight chocolaty flavor that some of those coffees or cocoas have. ShareMyShot gives this smooth shooter a 4 on a scale of 5. It doesn’t have hardly any punch at all. Not that you would expect a knockout based on the ingredients involved. But it is definately another shot for cozying up in front of that warm fireplace with your special lady.
Until some real Daddy’s Milk makes an appearance.
Oh Lord……please forgive me again.
Cheers !!
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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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