A shooter, or shot, is a small serving of spirits or a mixed drink (usually about one US fluid ounce or 30 millilitres), typically consumed quickly, often in a single gulp. It is common to serve a shooter as a side to a larger drink.[1]
Shooters can be shaken, stirred, blended, layered, or simply poured. Shot glasses or sherry glasses are the usual drinkware in which shooters are served. They are most commonly served at bars, and some bartenders have their own signature shooter.
The ingredients of shooters vary from bartender to bartender and from region to region. Two shooters can have the same name but different ingredients, resulting in two very different tastes.
Snakebite: variations and alternate names: Snakebite and black, Diesel, Snakey B, Purple nasty, Purple, Black, Deadly snakebite, Hard snakebite, and Super snakebite.
Irish car bomb: a mix of Irish whisky and Irish cream or other ingredients in a pint-glass of Irish stout.
Shooters with non-alcoholic bases
Mixed shooters
Jägerbomb, or Bulldozer, or Blaster: a shot glass with Jägermeister dropped into a glass of half a can of Red Bull. In German speaking countries this drink is called Fliegender Hirsch (Flying Deer). It can also be made by filling a shot glass with half Jägermeister and half Red Bull or by placing a shot glass full of Jägermeister at the bottom of a glass and filling with Red Bull.
Baby Guinness: Two thirds to three quarters of a shot glass filled with coffee liqueur. Irish Cream poured gently, over the back of a spoon, onto the top of the liqueur. The finished result should give the impression, if done correctly, of a tiny pint of Stout.
Tequesso: A shot of Tequila (often Patrón) chased by a shot of coffee
Shooters with vodka
A Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Shooter
Mixed shooters
Lemon Drop: A chilled shot of lemon-flavored vodka served with a lemon wedge covered in sugar. One takes the shot, then bites the lemon. Vodka with lemon juice can be substituted if no lemon-flavored vodka is available.
^DeGroff, Dale (2002). The craft of the cocktail : everything you need to know to be a master bartender, with 500 recipes (1st ed.). New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers. ISBN 9780307762276. OCLC 669067001.
^"Washington Apple Shot Recipe". Bevvy. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
^"Bazooka Joe Cocktail Recipe". 1001cocktails. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
External links
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Bartending
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mixed drink shooters and drink shots.
gulpology.com list of Classic Cocktail Shooter Recipes
About.com list of shooter recipes Archived 2006-02-28 at the Wayback Machine