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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
151 Ways To Die
1/2 oz. Bacardi 151 rum
1/2 oz. Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey
1/2 oz. Everclear alcohol
1/2 oz. Cazadores tequila
Combine all of the ingredients in a shot glass and then drink. No particular order is necessary. If you want to, you can use a spoon to float each alcohol atop another. But this drink is not supposed to be pretty. It is to get drunk. Fast. Enjoy !
One of the guys on the panel brought this one in today. It’s his birthday. And he’s only in the office for the taste test and the discussion. Then we’re taking him to lunch and he’s heading off to party deep into the night. So he thought he’d bring in a recipe that would rev up his engines for his day of decadence. Anytime you are dealing with a shot called 151 Ways To Die……I think that will suffice.
This lethal liquid has four powerhouse ingredients to it. Three of them we have employed in past recipes. This one calls for Cazadores tequila which is a fine brand of tequila. We haven’t specifically used this in any prior recipe, but it is great tasting—-very savory—-and you can usually secure a bottle for between $34–40 at a good liquor store. If you are short on funds these days like so many of us are, you can substitute your favorite brand for the Cazadores. You won’t hurt the shot by using Sauza or Patron here. But if you can add a bottle of Cazadores to your bar stock, by all means give this label a try.
Regardless of the tequila you use, be prepared for the smackdown that this shot will deliver. It’s not hard to see by the ingredients that this shot will hit you hard. Anytime a shot uses Everclear, you should be respectful of its power and use some common sense.
Like many of these ass kicking shots with a handful of really strong ingredients, the taste was a medley of whiskey and tequila mostly. Those flavors seem to hold their own when paired up with vodka, rum, and in this case Everclear. The rum and the Everclear kind of get pushed to the background. And appreciating the whiskey/tequila taste combo is something that you have to acquire over time. Some people like it. Others think they are a bad clash.
This shot reminded us a lot of yesterday’s shot by way of the characteristics we use to assign it a grade. It has a nice collection of fine, well-known liquors. And it certainly is powerful and will mess up your mind. The taste is tolerable, while not exactly delicious. And the creativity of the whole thing is evident, but not worthy of a gold medal.
ShareMyShot gives the shooter 151 Ways To Die a 3 on a scale of 5. That is what we gave yesterday’s shot (the Cluster Fuck) as well. Neither was head-and-shoulders above its counterpart. They had a alot of similar qualities and we feel both deserved a mid-range rank.
Just do be careful drinking either today’s shot or yesterday’s libation. You don’t want to end up on that show on the Spike channel called 1000 Ways to Die where they profile (mostly) idiots going to a premature death.
151 Ways To Die is enough.
Cheers !!
Posted in 3 Star Shots, Bacardi 151, Black Velvet whisky, Cazadores tequila, Evan Williams whiskey, Everclear, Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Jose Cuervo gold, Knob Creek, Patron, Patron Silver tequila, Sauza tequila, Tequila 1800, Wild Turkey, rum, tequila, whiskey | No Responses »
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Cluster Fuck
1/2 oz. Jack Daniels Tennessee whiskey
1/2 oz. Wild Turkey Kentucky bourbon whiskey
1/2 oz. 1800 Tequila
1/2 oz. Bacardi light rum
1/2 oz. Skyy vodka
1/2 oz. DeKuyper butterscotch schnapps
1 oz. 99 Apples schnapps
Pour the Tennessee whiskey, the Kentucky bourbon, the tequila, the rum, and the vodka into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, and strain into a double shot glass. Add the butterscotch and the apple schnapps in at the end. Serve. Enjoy !
Perhaps another name for today’s recipe could have been The Kitchen Sink. Because obviously, this shooter has everything in it but the damn kitchen sink. But instead, this seven ingredient poison party is known as Cluster Fuck.
Now I’ve been familair with this term for some time….often I hear people throw a ” Mongolian ” at the front of it. For instance, when you are talking to a friend at the bar and you ask, ” Say, how did that huge project turn out at work ? ”
And their reply is, ” Oh Christ !! It was a Mongolian Cluster Fuck ! ”
Or sometimes some of the guys I watch football with on Sunday may throw this term out. Such as after the Chicago Bears fail to score a touchdown after having a first down on the one yard line. Inevitably, someone says, ” Well that was the usual cluster fuck by the Bears ! ”
But today, we hope that the Cluster Fuck is more of a friendly beast. It seems friendly enough—-what with the wide array of ingredients including a couple of tasty contributors like Jack Daniels and 1800 Tequila. Then there seems to be a couple of tamer schnapps thrown in on top to temper the potency of the prior ingredients. And thankfully for once, neither of them are peach schnapps !
So we have an eclectic collection of powerful libations finished off with a butterscotch / apple topping to it. I’m game !
The shot was interesting to say the least. And perhaps the funny thing is that the panel was almost duped into trying four rounds of this powerful punch in an effort to identify which tastes stood out and which ones were muted. And after four rounds of a double shot glass of Cluster Fucks, well……..you really do start to feel it.
Some really felt that you could taste the schnapps more than anything else with that element laying on top of the whole shot. And of the schnapps, the apple seemed to be most prominent. Perhaps it should be that way as there was twice as much apple schnapps versus any other ingredient. And it was on the top. Others on the panel felt that the whiskeys were at the forefront more than the other libations. The vodka and the rum seemed to be the most muted of the ingredients. And one panel member strongly felt that the tequila was the most recognizable. So there was a variety of opinions on what flavor was the most potent. And all agreed that the shot was mighty strong.
What prevented the shot from earning a really high mark on our scale was the overall taste. It wasn’t bad as some of the shots with so many components can be. But it wasn’t a lip smacking blend the way some fruity liqueurs work well together to make more of a tropical shot. Or how fruit juices like orange juice or cranberry juice can work well with vodka or rum. This shot struggled to define a true taste identity.
The Cluster Fuck was indeed a true cluster fuck.
And as a result, ShareMyShot gave it a 3 on our a scale of 5.
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 !!
Posted in 3 Star Shots, Aftershock cinnamon schnapps, Bacardi 151, Canadian whisky, Chartreuse herbal liqueur, Crown Royal, DeKuyper Hot Damn cinnamon schnapps, DeKuyper cinnamon schnapps, Firewater cinnamon schnapps, Goldschlager, Hiram Walker cinnamon schnapps, Hiram Walker schnapps, Jagermeister, flavored liqueurs, herbal liqueurs, liqueurs, schnapps, whiskey | No Responses »
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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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 !!
Posted in 4 Star Shots, Bacardi 151, Jack Daniels, Jagermeister, Jim Beam, Johnnie Walker Black, Johnnie Walker Red, Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky, Jose Cuervo gold, bourbon, flavored liqueurs, herbal liqueurs, liqueurs, rum, tequila, whiskey | No Responses »
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Jimmy Conway
1 oz. Jim Beam bourbon whiskey
1 oz. Seagram’s 7 whisky
1 oz. Romana black sambuca
Combine all ingredients together in a large shot glass. Stir and serve. Enjoy !
After one of the ladies on our panel brought in her Tarheel Shot recipe that was shared yesterday, one of the other guys on the team brought one in for today. It’s a trend we see often at ShareMyShot. When one person gets one of their contributions posted, then we have a string of suggestions from other people who don’t want to be left out. But that’s a good thing. Management doesn’t care where the recipes come from; we just want to share ideas with the rest of the shot drinking public.
So today Paul brought in a recipe called Jimmy Conway.
This caught my attention right away just out of irony. While we were on the flight to New Orleans to enjoy the corporate trip to the Super Bowl, I read the Nicholas Pileggi book Wise Guy again. For those who don’t know, this is the book that spawned the movie Goodfellas with Ray Liotta as mobster-wannabe Henry Hill and Robert De Niro as hoodlum Jimmy Conway.
I am a bit of a student on mob history and have read the book a few times and watched the movie four or five times. Jimmy Conway was actually known as Jimmy Burke to his associates. Although even he didn’t know many details of his birth and actual parents, he was born to a woman with the last name Conway. He bounced around from foster family to foster family (and prison at a pretty young age). By the time he was an adult in the Paul Vario crew, he was going by the moniker Jimmy Burke. But in the movie, they just went with Jimmy Conway.
Because the character was played by the world’s greatest actor in De Niro, the character was quite memorable and quirky. As was the real Jimmy Conway. He was a mean and dangerous SOB for sure. So it’s not out of the ordinary to hear that there is a shot named after him. I don’t know if this is what he drank in the film or not—-or how this concoction is directly attributed to him—–but I was curious to give it a try.
I drink a ton of Jim Beam as it is. So that component was not intimidating. The shot then calls for Seagrams 7 and Romana sambuca. This triple play seemed an interesting combination and the group dove right in. We also replaced the Jim Beam with Jack Daniels whiskey on the third round to see if it had a marked effect on the taste of the shot. We even used Jim Beam and Jack Daniels together in place of the Seagrams.
The reason we did this is because the shot didn’t go over very well with the taste panel. As I’ve stated before, I am not a huge fan of black licorice flavoring. But we couldn’t remove or replace the Romana black sambuca as it is a key ingredient in the recipe and not too flexible. So we thought we would try to switch out the whiskey element. Neither the Jim Beam nor the Jack Daniels was enough to snuff out the licorice flavor to the point of real enjoyment.
There was a suggestion to try a few other labels of whiskey to replace the Seagrams. But the consensus was that the sambuca would dominate the shot no matter what whiskey blend we tried. And there is a corporate policy that no taste session is to surpass five rounds. So we ran out of options in that regard too. The best we could give this shot was a 1 on a scale of 5. And that was only for the punch it delivered.
Like the real Jimmy (Burke) Conway, the shooter was just a little bit harsh. It was the type of shot that left a few of the panel members making a face after forcing it down. The aftertaste wasn’t that savory either.
While downing a shot of Jimmy Conway is definately better than getting on the wrong side of the gangster Jimmy Conway, personally I’d rather do neither.
Your health will be worse for wear either way.
Cheers !!
Posted in 1 Star Shots, Black Sambuca, Canadian whisky, Evan Williams whiskey, Goodfellas, Irish whiskey, Jack Daniels, Jameson Irish whiskey, Jim Beam, Knob Creek, Romana Sambuca, Sambuca, Seagrams 7, whiskey | No Responses »
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Cowboy Up
1 oz. Crown Royal Canadian whisky
1/2 oz. Absolut Peppar vodka
3/4 oz. Firewater cinnamon schnapps
3/4 oz. DeKuyper vanilla schnapps
1 oz. Hpnotiq liqueur
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into large shot glass. Enjoy !
I was turned on to this recipe by a friend of mine over the weekend. While not currently behind a bar, he has done some bartending in the past. But we were watching a stand-up routine by Arte Lange; the comedian who has been a regular on the Howard Stern radio show. He was doing a bit on the movie Brokeback Mountain about a couple of gay cowboys. And his punch line was that ” Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhal are NOT gay cowboys. “
” Tony Romo……now there’s a gay Cowboy ! ”
As avid football fans who hate the Dallas Cowboys, the joke drew a chuckle from me and my friend. And a few minutes later, he asked if I had ever tried the Cowboy Up shot ? I replied that I hadn’t, but was perfectly willing to try. Unfortunately, he didn’t have any Hpnotiq in his house. Nor Absolut Peppar. Nor DeKuyper vanilla schnapps.
Hey ! I said he was an avid football fan and an out-of-work bartender…….not a liqueur connoisseur ! He did have some Crown Royal on-hand, so we settled for a couple of those on the rocks.
But I brought the recipe into the office and the team was totally up for giving the recipe a sampling. We didn’t have any Hpnotiq on-hand either. It is a rather expensive liqueur. So we sent office lackey Keith down to the liquor store once again to procure a bottle of this fine libation. Hpnotiq is a liqueur made from vodka, cognac, and tropical fruit juices. It has only been around for about 9 or 10 years. But it is a very fine tasting drink and quite popular on the club scene.
The rest of the ingredients were in the corporate liquor cabinet, so with the addition of the fresh bottle of Hpnotiq, we were ready to Cowboy Up. We had the part-time bartender that performs other duties here at ShareMyShot mix the shooters for us. The drink has a nice combination of fixings and we wanted to make sure it was prepared correctly. The shot sounded like it had a lot of potential.
The taste team’s opinions on the shot were rather divided. I thought it was pretty good overall, but I could definately see the point that others made that the shooter was just a bit too busy. It was hard to distinguish a number of the ingredients. The cinnamon schnapps was noticeable as was the Hpnotiq. But the vodka and even the Royal Crown elements were a bit muted. And there was the slightest suggestion of the vanilla schnapps, but it took two or three rounds to conclude we did indeed taste a trace of that component.
ShareMyShot gives this rootin’ tootin’ shooter a 3 on a scale of 5. It did pack a punch after we sampled four rounds. Any more and we would have reached a higher “buzz” plateau. And it is a creative and eclectic array of ingredients. But overall, it didn’t quite measure up to the more delicious and elite shots we have awarded higher grades to. As more than one team member said, ” It’s not bad at all. But it’s just too busy. I can’t really tell what part I like and what part I’m not even tasting. “
So if you have a bottle of Hpnotiq behind the bar, feel free to rustle up one of these shots. But if you don’t, just settle for a Crown Royal on the rocks.
Cheers !!
Posted in 3 Star Shots, Absolut, Absolut Peppar, Absolut flavored vodkas, Aftershock cinnamon schnapps, Canadian whisky, Crown Royal, DeKuyper vanilla schnapps, Firewater cinnamon schnapps, Hpnotiq, cinnamon schnapps, flavored liqueurs, flavored schnapps, liqueurs, schnapps, vanilla schnapps, vodka, whiskey | No Responses »
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Hair of the Dog
1 oz. 1800 Tequila
1 oz. Jameson Irish whiskey
1/4 oz. Tabasco sauce
1 pinch salt
Pour the Tabasco sauce, the tequila and the whiskey into a shot glass. Lay the salt on top, and serve.
Now this recipe we’re sharing today is a bit of a favor from ShareMyShot.com to you. We thought we better post it before New Year’s Day so that you have time to read it and incorporate it into your holiday morning plans. If you’re like most of the staff at ShareMyShot, you’ll be nursing a hell of a hangover on January 1. So before it’s too late, we present to you the Hair of the Dog.
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying before. The insinuation is that when you are feeling really lousy after a hard night of drinking, the best bet is to have a belt of some sort. To “man-up” and go to that liquor cabinet and toss down a shot of Jack Daniels or Jose Cuervo tequila. It’s like the old western saying, “If you fall off a horse, you get right back up on that sucker“. In the drinking world, the popular phrase is to go and get a little of that hair of the dog.
And damned if ain’t true ! I often feel slightly better after a little hair of the dog.
So we gave this one a try in the hopes we could prescribe it as a hangover remedy for the upcoming holiday. The tough part is that we were only able to sample it for taste and appearance, etc. Nobody shows up for work at ShareMyShot drunk or really hung over. Sometimes we leave work a little tipsy, but no one shows up drunk or clinging to the toilet all morning. So obviously it was tough to determine if this would be an effective hangover cure. We could only base it on taste and whether it made our foreheads and stomachs all warm and settled.
What we can tell you with certainty is that this shooter will definately help you to NOT drink the rest of the day. After a couple of these eye watering pick-me-ups, you’ll probably say to yourself….”OK, that’s it ! I don’t need any more. No really……I feel much better. No more booze for me. I’m good now.”
You know……something along those lines.
Anytime you have a shot that calls for tabasco sauce, it usually gets your attention when you throw it down. Add the top layer of salt and you sit up straight in your chair as it goes down into your belly. I thought it might be a better experience if you put a little dash of salt on your hand like many people do with straight tequila shots. The taste team tried it both ways: as a light dash on top of the actual shot….and also off of the back of our hand as a precursor to the shot. It didn’t matter which way we did it—–this Hair of the Dog is a freakin’ bell ringer !
ShareMyShot.com gives this stiff smack in the face a 2 out of 5. And we endorse it as a hangover remedy. It made the back of my damn neck warm. And I’ll tell you this…like an old fashioned spoonful of castor oil, it cured me of whatever pains I had. When someone proposed we try a 4th round, the team said almost simultaneously,
“No….no !! I’m good. No more shots necessary ! I’ve had enough to form my opinion.”
Try one of these on the morning of January 1 right when you get out of bed. I triple-Dog dare ya.
Cheers !!
Posted in 2 Star Shots, Irish whiskey, Jameson Irish whiskey, Jose Cuervo gold, New Years Eve, Patron, Patron Silver tequila, Sauza tequila, Tabasco sauce, Tequila 1800, hangover remedies, holiday shots, salt, tequila, whiskey | No Responses »
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Kick Me in the Jimmy
1/2 oz. Jagermeister herbal liqueur
1/2 oz. Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey
1/2 oz. Jose Cuervo Especial gold tequila
1/2 oz. Firewater cinnamon schnapps
Combine in cocktail mixer with ice. Shake and strain into a double shot glass. Try to enjoy !
Here’s a shot that screams Merry Christmas, doesn’t it? It’s not exactly what I asked Santa for Christmas last year, but………
We’ve tried some shots recently that were more dessert shots and thought it was time to try another ass-kicker. At least on paper. This one has been on our “to do” list for over a month. It’s amazing how few people wanna experience a no-holds barred Kick Me in the Jimmy. I don’t know if it’s bad memories from a childhood fight or everyone racked themselves on their car door coming to work. But you don’t have to ask me twice for Kick Me in the Jimmy.
I’m down. Totally down if you wanna Kick Me in the Jimmy.
If you look at the ingredients, this shooter is meant to make men out of boys. It’s an all-star lineup of heavy hitters. You have my personal favorite brand of whiskey in the Jack Daniels. Toss in the most recognized brand of tequila in the world with the Jose Cuervo. And for shits and giggles, why don’t we pour in a splash of good old fashioned Jagermeister too?
Finally, we have a new label of cinnamon schnapps to play with today. Yes, we’ve monkeyed around with Aftershock and Goldschlager and some of the other big boys in this niche. But we do believe this is the first recipe we’ve shared utilizing Firewater cinnamon schnapps. This is an elite brand and is 100 proof. You can probably secure a bottle anywhere from $17-22 at a decent liquor store that carries it.
Don’t change up any of the ingredients if you can help it. Other than the Firewater schnapps, you should have a bottle of the other three ingredients on-hand. If you don’t, you need to build up a more diverse stock of booze, chief. But stick to Jack Daniels because it has a bite that we feel is required to give you the full Kick Me in the Jimmy experience. And don’t deviate to Aftershock or a weaker label of cinnamon schnapps. Like we said, Firewater is 100 proof and it has the taste/kick to back it up. When you accept a Kick Me in the Jimmy, you want to feel it, right?
Drinking this reminded me of throwing down a shot of my buddy’s homemade Yugoslavian moonshine—except it tasted better than gasoline. Which is what my friend’s moonshine tastes like.
It’s like sticking a lit match on your tongue. It tasted like I took a gulp of that liquid fire that pranksters put in a guy’s jockstrap. Imagine you drank a liquid habanero pepper.
The taste is hard to describe other than what I have tried to express here. You swallow it fast and there isn’t exactly a plethora of tasty sensations. Just a burning one on your freakin’ tongue. We at ShareMyShot.com give this flamethrower a 2 on a scale of 5.
A couple of people on the taste team said they’d rather take a real Kick Me in the Jimmy than do a second round of the shot. I actually participated in a second round.
I should’ve just taken a foot to the nuts and called it a day.
Cheers !!!
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
Jimmy Page
1/2 oz. Jim Beam bourbon whiskey
1/2 oz. Popov vodka
1/2 oz. Tia Maria coffee liqueur
1/2 oz. grapefruit juice
Pour into a double shot glass in the order listed. Be sure to add the grapefruit juice last. Serve and enjoy.
To complete this week’s run on shots named after legendary musicians, someone brought this idea into the office today. This is a person whose opinions the rest of us trust pretty well. She’s on the taste test team and can throw down shooters with the best of ‘em. When she came in with the recipe for the Jimmy Page shot, a few people were like, “Oh come on. We did the Ray Charles shot. We did a Bob Marley shot. Is there really any such thing as a Jimmy Page shot ?? ”
It turns out, there is indeed. Our colleague did admit that she did a little looking around on-line to come up with it. She just wanted to be able to come in with a rock star shot. She cited that Ray Charles was a bluesy, gospel singer. And Bob Marley was the king of reggae. So she wanted her style of music to get in on this theme. And she found the Jimmy Page shot. That’s taking a chance, but we trust her judgement.
Most of us had no familiarity with Tia Maria coffee liqueur. We didn’t have any in the corporate cabinet, so we sent our boy on a quick trip to the liquor store. We actually hit the store at least twice per week. Sometimes to get an ingredient we are completely lacking—and at least once per week to re-stock the traditional lables. We go thru the juice pretty fast over here.
Tia Maria is a coffee liqueur made originally in Jamaica using Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee beans. The main flavor ingredients are coffee beans, cane spirit, vanilla, and sugar fermented into its alcohol form. It can be consumed pure, or with ice. It is also frequently used as an ingredient for cocktails, as a complement with coffee, or in desserts. It may also be mixed with milk and ice.
All-in-all, it sounded pretty damn good to the rest of us and we had no reservations about trying this recipe from our classic rock colleague.
Plus, I have always been a huge follower of Jimmy Page since about 6th grade when I discovered Led Zeppelin. I wrote more than one book report over the years in school about the Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods. Always got an A on it too. Much like the band, in my younger years there were trashed rooms and crazy, wild times mostly fueled by alcohol and other medicines.
Strange that I would end up working for a corporation that samples and shares shot recipes, huh?
Unfortunately, ShareMyShot.com gives this classic rock creation a 2 on a scale of 5. I had a slight fear going in that the whiskey element and the coffee liqueur wouldn’t play well together—especially with some grapefruit juice thrown in. But I trusted my coworker. My initial thought was that it would have a funky taste. And it sure did. I’m not huge on grapefruit juice and that was the first thing my tastebuds identified. Then the rest of the concoction tasted like some of the rocket fuel my friends and I made as adolescent kids. {The quick mixture of the first three bottles we yanked from my parent’s liquor supply…..no matter what they were}. Always tasted like anti-freeze or something. This blend reminded me of those days. Not good.
The shot did not do the legendary guitar player justice. You’re better off jamming some old Led Zep records than trying this shooter. And we no longer trust that colleague as much as we used to.
Cheers !!!
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