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Shot

Small and thick walled, for drinks taken in one go. Doubles as a rough measure.

Typical size1-2 oz

Recommended fill2 oz

A shot glass is the measure. It holds 1-2 oz and no ice.

Drinks served in this glass

Citrus vodka and black raspberry, straight down.

LiqueurBeginner

Southern Comfort and amaretto, sharpened with lime.

Anise, vodka and cream. Sweeter than it sounds.

Coffee, almond and cream, with high-proof rum underneath.

Peach and cranberry. The shooter everyone's had at least once.

LiqueurBeginner

Equal thirds of coffee, cream and orange. Stirred here rather than layered, which is quicker and tastes the same.

LiqueurIntermediate

Port and Starboard

Grenadine and green crème de menthe, layered and not mixed. Two ingredients, and the whole drink is the pour.

LiqueurIntermediate

Slippery Nipple

Sambuca with Irish cream floated on it. Two ingredients and one skill, and the skill is pouring slowly.

LiqueurIntermediate

The Slippery Nipple with butterscotch underneath instead of sambuca. Sweeter, softer, and much easier to get down.

LiqueurIntermediate

Three layers and then grenadine dropped through the middle, which bleeds down into the amaretto and gives the thing its name.

LiqueurIntermediate

Same trick, blue. Sambuca, blue curaçao and Irish cream, with grenadine dropped through the top.

Absinthe Jellyfish

The strong one. Blue curaçao, tequila and absinthe, with a single drop of Irish cream that curdles on contact — which is the point.

LiqueurAdvanced

A B-52 with absinthe where the orange liqueur goes. It will light, and it is the kind of drink people light.

LiqueurIntermediate

Peach schnapps, Irish cream dropped in rather than floated, and grenadine after it. It curdles on purpose and looks exactly as advertised.

LiqueurIntermediate

Alien Brain Hemorrhage

The Brain Tumor with blue curaçao in it, which turns the curdled cream a colour nothing in nature is.

LiqueurIntermediate

Green, white and orange in that order. Get the pour right and it is a flag; get it wrong and it is a brown shot.

LiqueurBeginner

Melon liqueur with Irish cream on top. Two ingredients, one pour, and about as green as a drink gets.

LiqueurIntermediate

Grenadine, melon liqueur and advocaat, layered. Milder than the name and the colours suggest.

LiqueurAdvanced

Four layers in a shot glass: cacao, sloe gin, brandy, cream. The hardest pour in this section.

LiqueurBeginner

Banana, cacao and cream shaken cold. Equal thirds, and the cream is what keeps it civil.

LiqueurIntermediate

Grenadine, sambuca and Southern Comfort in equal layers. Aniseed and cherry, and it does taste like the sweet.

Grenadine, vodka and five drops of Tabasco. Sweet for the first second and then not.

AgaveIntermediate

Sambuca, tequila and a dash of Tabasco. The heat arrives after you have swallowed, which is the joke.

Sambuca and vodka with hot sauce through it. A Flatliner built on vodka instead of tequila.

A tequila shot with three drops of Tabasco in it. That is the entire drink.

Sambuca, melon, lemon and gin in four layers. The lemon juice is what makes it hard — it wants to fall straight through.

Tequila, melon and lime shaken and poured short. A margarita's argument, made in one swallow.

LiqueurIntermediate

Sambuca, Irish cream and triple sec layered in a shot glass. The B-52 shape with aniseed at the bottom.

LiqueurBeginner

Irish cream, triple sec and Grand Marnier. Two orange liqueurs rather than one, which is what separates it from a B-52.

Dirty Girl Scout

Vodka, coffee liqueur, Irish cream and green crème de menthe. A White Russian with mint in it, poured short.

LiqueurBeginner

Jägermeister, peach schnapps and cranberry. Sweet enough that the Jäger takes a second to show up.

WhiskeyBeginner

Whiskey, peach and triple sec shaken with lemon. A sour built to be drunk in one go.

LiqueurIntermediate

Galliano Hot Shot

Galliano with hot espresso poured on it and cream on that. Hot and cold in the same glass, which is the whole idea.

WhiskeyBeginner

Tennessee whiskey and sambuca, shaken cold. Equal parts, and it drinks like neither one.

White rum, cinnamon schnapps and Tabasco, shaken. Nothing here is on fire — the name is about the aftertaste.

Overproof rum, cinnamon schnapps and Jägermeister in equal measure. One is plenty.

LiqueurBeginner

Cinnamon schnapps, butterscotch and Irish cream. It does taste like the biscuit, which is unsettling at this strength.

Horny Bull Shot

Equal parts tequila and white rum, with vodka if you are feeling it. No mixer and nothing to hide behind.

Liquid Marijuana Shot

The long version's ingredients at shot strength. The colour survives the shaking, which is most of the point.

Zero proofBeginner

Tomato, orange, lime and hot sauce, mixed by the jug. Not a cocktail — it is what you drink after the tequila.

WhiskeyBeginner

Three equal shots of Canadian whisky, amaretto and cranberry, shaken and thrown back in one. Sweet enough that the whisky never gets to argue.

LiqueurBeginner

Cinnamon, herbal bitterness, peppermint and overproof rum in four equal half-ounces. The name is the most honest thing about it.

WhiskeyBeginner

One Tennessee, one Scotch and one bourbon, in equal thirds. The line-up is the joke; the drink underneath is a shot of whiskey.

WhiskeyBeginner

Grandma's Coughdrop

Whiskey with a quarter ounce of coffee liqueur under it and four drops of grenadine on top.

An ounce of rum with half an ounce of espresso on it, drunk in one. Somewhere between a nightcap and the thing that undoes a nightcap.

Wine & BrandyBeginner

Whip's Nightcap

Brandy and amaretto in a shot glass, two to one. The French Connection with the ice and the sipping taken out of it.

Whip's Reveille

Tequila and coffee liqueur in a shot glass, two to one. The Brave Bull with the ice left out and a little more agave in it.

Grandma's Coughdrop with gin under it instead of whiskey. The juniper turns the whole thing pine-and-berry, which is where the name came from.

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