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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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Butternut Rum Lifesaver

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Butternut Rum Lifesaver

3/4 oz.    Bailey’s Irish cream
3/4 oz.    DeKuyper Butterscotch liqueur
3/4 oz.    Malibu coconut rum
3/4 oz.    pineapple juice 

Mix ingredients into a cocktail shaker/strainer with ice. Shake moderately. Strain into shot glass. Enjoy.

As long as we’ve been putting up some recipes lately that taste like a favorite food, we thought we’d give this candied treat a try.

The recipe has a few similar ingredients to some other recent posts: {See: Cancun Current in which Malibu coconut rum and pineapple juice are common elements} AND {See: Classic Oatmeal Cookie in which Bailey’s Irish Cream and butterscotch liqueur are the like components}.

ShareMyShot thought it would be interesting to sample another shot with these four ingredients mixed slightly different. Previously, one resulting shooter was an enjoyable tropical fruit blend. And the other was a common, popular semblance of a true oatmeal cookie. We wanted to see if a slight deviation from those two shots could result in a close match to the butternut rum flavored Lifesaver.

Call it a little science experiment if you want. The staff at ShareMyShot.com calls it enjoyable field research.

And after considerable study with some of the variables, these were our results:

We could only give this shot a 3 on a scale of 5. We know from other recipes that these ingredients can result in a tasty shooter. And this shot did not taste terrible or anything. But we weren’t so sure how close it tasted to a butternut rum Lifesaver. We even went out and bought a few rolls of Livesavers so we weren’t basing our opinion on childhood memories (as in when most of our staff last had a butternut rum Lifesaver).

Five people who sampled the shot agreed that it wasn’t the closest resemblance they’ve come across. Not like the shots that taste like apple pie or maple syrup, etc. The Malibu coconut rum is pretty evident. If it is only supposed to comprise the “rum” element, it is a little too dominant in the overall taste. The butterscotch liqueur would seem to be the flavor needed at the forefront to hit the goal of  “butter rum Lifesaver“, but it is not as apparent or obvious as one might expect.

Like we said, it isn’t a bad shot. The pineapple juice is almost completely muted. We tried a few slight variations in our own effort to perfect the flavor. We used different types of butterscotch libations…..Hiram Walker Butterscotch schnapps, the DeKuyper Buttershots……and we also tried serving it unchilled as no one really remembered eating cold Lifesavers regularly. Maybe if they were in your pocket on a winter day……..otherwise, most of us remembered eating the butterscotch rum Lifesavers at room temp.

The results stayed the same. It’s a nice attempt at capturing a memorable childhood treat. But it falls just a little short of hitting the mark.

Cheers !!!

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Apple Jacks

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Apple Jacks

1 oz.               DeKuyper Buttershots liqueur
1 oz.               DeKuyper Sour Apple Pucker schnapps
1 1/2 oz.        DeKuyper Hot Damn cinnamon schnapps 

Stir ingredients together in a hi-ball glass and serve. Can be served unchilled…..unless you keep your Apple Pucker in the ‘fridge.

Here’s another shot recipe that attempts to capture the flavor of a popular, tasty food. And you know that we wouldn’t publish the drink at ShareMyShot if it didn’t come pretty close and tickle the palate. That is the case here.

I’ve always loved the breakfast cereal Apple Jacks. The cereal itself is pretty good. But the “after milk” that you have in the bowl is one of the best tasting “after milks” I’ve ever had. The sugar from the cereal sweetens it into something that has to resemble the nectar of the gods. The shot DOES NOT replicate the taste of the milk, however. What it does do is combine the taste of apple and cinnamon in a tight combination that gives you the feeling you just munched on a couple of pieces of Apple Jacks.

We have touted DeKuyper schnapps and liqueurs in a couple of previous recipes. They are a leading brand in the schnapps business. For this recipe, we recommend that you just go with the DeKuyper products. Don’t use DeKuyper for one or two of the ingredients and then go with a different label for the third one. If you are going to deviate from DeKuyper, feel free to do so. But try and use the same label for the whole shot. We are fortunate to have a well-stocked bar in the office of ShareMyShot and had no need to experiment with various types of schnapps brands. The ingredients required were on-hand.

This shot is smooth and sweet in nature. It’s not as sickening sweet as a watermelon liquid Jolly Rancher or some of the shots that are heavy on creamy liqueurs. The Buttershots add a dimension that helps to tame the sourness of the Apple Pucker and the gritty tang of hot cinnamon. When the three flavors are combined, none of them are extremely dominant over the others. It’s a perfect mesh.

We wouldn’t call this a dessert shot, exactly. But it is a party-friendly shot and female-friendly as well. You’d have to drink several to get inebriated on these. There is enough of an alcohol content where you don’t want to over-do it. It’s one of those shots where someone inevitably says, “I could drink like 20 of these and not even be buzzed”.

You might as well just eat a heaping bowl of Apple Jacks cereal. It’d be better for your liver.

We at ShareMyShot.com give this tasty breakfast cereal replica a 4 on a scale of 5. It’s creative and accomplishes what it sets out to do.

Cheers !!

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