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Homeless in Beijing

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Homeless in Beijing

2 oz.                Dynasty (Chinese) medium dry white wine
1/2 oz.             1800 Tequila
1/2 oz.             Romana Sambuca
1 splash           lime juice 

Layer the (chilled) Chinese wine in the bottom of a large shot glass. Add a mixture of tequila, sambuca and lime juice on the top from a cocktail shaker (either chilled or unchilled). Enjoy !!

We thought it was time we tried something really daring today. Not necessarily daring in the sense of Everclear. And not daring in the sense of another 4-5 ingredient shooter of traditional libations. Yesterday we tried a recipe that didn’t have any of the hard hitters in it like vodka or rum. That wasn’t really the goal today either. We didn’t mind if today’s shot really packed a punch.

But we did want to sample something that didn’t have Bailey’s Irish Cream or Kahlua in it. We wanted to try and avoid rum as many recipes call for Bacardi 151 or another variety. We were seeking a recipe that didn’t call for banana, raspberry, or hazelnut liqueurs. We just sought a real change of pace….such as when we tried Ouzo a few weeks back. We try to keep things evolving here at ShareMyShot and after some scouring of some of our in-house literature and a few phone calls to some of our bartender friends, we believed we found something really unique to share.

Today we offer you Homeless in Beijing.

This is the first recipe we have shared that employs Chinese wine. China has been known for its grape wine for not just centuries…it has actually been traced back thousands of years. Typically rather strong, Chinese wine is itself evolving as there has been a recent French influence that has many more varieties penetrating the marketplace. The shot Homeless in Beijing calls for a pretty popular label known as Dynasty. They offer white and red wines along with a few other varieties. For today’s shot, you need their medium dry white wine.

Office lackey Keith had to go to three liquor stores here in the city before he could locate it.

And after trying three rounds of Homeless in Beijing, we could see why not too many liquor stores carry this crap. The shot tasted like I took a big glob of hair gel and shoved it in my mouth. It sucked big-time. I mean, expectations were a little reserved when we saw the recipe and the odd assortment of ingredients. But at the same time, we were seeking a new experience; something radically different. So we did go in with an open mind.

We should have stuck to a recipe that had some rum or something in there. This combination of Chinese wine, tequila, and sambuca was like chewing on a dirty dish towel. The kind of shot where even our toughest panel members were reaching for the salt crackers we set out to cleanse our palates. And reaching for them quickly I might add. Before they dry-heaved.

We even tried the wine by itself and while much better than the shot, it didn’t score high with the more educated wine drinkers in our group. And Dynasty is one of the more popular and rising labels in the Chinese wine market.

ShareMyShot gives this worldly wickedness a ZERO on a scale of 5. This tasted like we took a black marker and licked the tip for a couple of minutes. Like licking the blackboard in a schoolroom. We couldn’t figure out how the name applied until we had tried a few rounds of this nasty nectar. But now we know.

You would be better of being dressed in rags, starving, and Homeless in Beijing than drinking a bunch of these sorry shooters.

Cheers !!

Posted in 0 Star Shots, Black Sambuca, Chinese wine, Dynasty Chinese white wine, Romana Sambuca, Sambuca, Tequila 1800, flavored liqueurs, fruit juices, hangover remedies, herbal liqueurs, lime juice, liqueurs, tequila, white wine, wine | No Responses »

Unabomber

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Unabomber

1/2 oz.     Tanqueray gin
1/2 oz.     Grey Goose vodka
1/2 oz.     Cointreau triple sec
1/2 oz.     lime juice

Pour all ingredients into a large shot glass. Make the formal introduction of your mouth to the shot glass. Enjoy.

This was an interesting shot for the staff of ShareMyShot.com to sample recently. We’ve shared almost 50 recipes thus far, but this was really the first blend of these ingredients we’ve come close to. We’ve only posted two prior recipes calling for triple sec, and those were early on. There also haven’t been too many mixtures calling for lime juice. So we thought this would be something a little different we could offer.

We wanted to discuss triple sec for just a minute and suggest a few brands. Triple sec is an orange-flavored liqueur made from the dried peel of oranges from the Caribbean. Its name means triple distilled. It is widely used in mixed drinks and recipes as a sweetening and flavoring agent. One of the best known brands among American drinkers is Cointreau. Many brands are colorless, although some of the finer brands may have a golden hue in-line with their brandy base. A form of triple sec known as Orange Curaçao is made from oranges from the Caribbean island of Haiti. This is often recognized as an elite label. Triple sec typically contains 30% alcohol (by volume). That is 60 proof, though brands may have anywhere from 15% to 40% alcohol.

We did a lot of experimentation and substitution of brands playing with this recipe. Honestly, we ran out of Tanqueray after a couple of rounds and had to step over to Gordon’s. But in the name of research, we pushed on. You could also probably get away with Fleischmann’s or Seagram’s with this shot. I personally am a Tanqueray man. And I thought the best blends we tried were the first few using the last of the Tanqueray.

We also used Absolut and Skyy vodka in our mixology tests.

We used Cointreau as the recipe suggested for the triple sec; chiefly because that was the only brand we had in the office. Our office gopher Keith was dispatched pronto to the liquor store to secure a finer brand of triple sec and another bottle of Tanqueray.

The shot wasn’t stomach-lurching bad. But even the best blends didn’t rate as superior. My highest vote came with the first two mixes we tried. The first blend we sampled was directly from the recipe we have posted. And the second blend we tried—including the last of the Tanqueray—–had substituted the Grey Goose for the Skyy vodka. Not an earth-shattering switch. I gave both of those first two samples a 3 on the scale of 5.

But the rest of the blends earned no better than a 2 on the 5 point scale. Some of the staff gave the shot a 2 on all samples. So collectively, we agreed that the Unabomber gets a 2 on a scale of 5. It’s a nice effort at a refreshing, subtly Caribbean shot. But for most of us, the lime juice and the triple sec didn’t go very well with the gin/vodka combo.

We’d rather have a cold marguerita or a mojito.

Cheers !!!!

Posted in 2 Star Shots, Absolut, Bacardi white/light rum, Caribbean, Cointreau Triple Sec, DeKuyper Triple Sec, Fleischmann's gin, Gordon's gin, Grey Goose Vodka, Orange Curacao, Skyy vodka, Smirnoff's vodka, Stolichnaya vodka, Tanqueray, Triple Sec, fruit juices, gin, lime juice, vodka | No Responses »

Wild Black Betty

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Wild Black Betty

1/5 oz Wild Turkey bourbon whiskey
1/5 oz Jack Daniel’s whiskey
1/5 oz Southern Comfort peach liqueur
1/5 oz grenadine
1/5 oz lime juice

Pour all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker over ice. Feel free to use a different peach liqueur if you don’t have Southern Comfort on hand. But adhere closely to the Jack Daniels and the Wild Turkey specifications. Shake and strain into a shot glass. Enjoy.

This shot calls for multiple ingredients that you may have to gather before a party or blowout. It’s not something easily thrown together from what’s on-hand.

But any extra effort you have to make to serve this one to your guests is worth it. Just watch the looks on their faces when they try it and see how many ask you how to make it.

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

This incredible shot may or may not be named after the ’70s song. Regardless, we promise it’ll please your taste buds and those of the people you turn on to it.
A mixture of all the best libations.

Cheers!

Posted in 5 Star Shots, Grenadine, Jack Daniels, Southern Comfort, Wild Turkey, bourbon, lime juice | No Responses »