the godmother

Jay calls me all sorts of feminine names, simply because I don’t enjoy beers. I like what most would call "sissy beers" like the Smirnoff Ice or Mike’s Hard Lemonade, but straight beer just makes me gag. The SMELL of it, let alone the taste is enough to make me yarf all over the place.

What Jay fails to recognize is that I am an aficionado of the hard liquors and their various mixers. One my favorite liquors of all time is amaretto. It’s a great on the rocks and mixes well with many different kinds of fluids. There’s the standard Amaretto Sour (with sour mix or Squirt) and the wedding favorite Bacci Ball (amoretto and O.J.).

Well, I discovered a drink called the Godmother (found on the Webtender) and it’s abso- f’ing-lutely fantastic. Fair warning: This is not a drink for a light-weight. It’s simply one part amaretto and two parts vodka on the rocks.

Measured strictly, it’s a little strong. To perfect it, I used a little bit more amoretto and a little less vodka.

It’s got an incredibly smooth taste and goes down extremely (if not dangerously) smooth. There’s the sharp vodka bite in the after taste that reminds you that you’re drinking alcohol. Attention college students: You are drinking a drink with nothing but alcohol in it. This isn’t something to mix into your camel-back and go to the parties with.

I give this drink 4 slurs out of 5. It’s a great weekend drink, but not something I would want to exclusively drink for the rest of my life. With that said, bottoms up and enjoy the full body shiver!

-mac