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Oompa Loompa

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 !!

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Fainting Goat

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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