Thread: Boiler Maker

Some friends were discussing making the perfect Boiler Maker, i. e. a shot of whiskey with a beer chaser.

One says the perfect combination would be the origional Four Roses whiskey chased with Budwieser.

A friend from Pennsylvania states the classic where he came from was Imperial Whiskey and Iron City beer. The "Iron and an Imp" as they called it.
Any one have any thoughts or what is poplular in their area.

You've got it backwards, it's "an Imp and an Iron.".

When I was 16 I was drinking underage in a bar called The Music Box on Canal St. in New Orleans. I had read an article about actor Lee Marvin that said he liked to throw a shot of Gin in a glass of beer. Three of those and I was about as drunk as I've ever been and I don't know how I got home as the earth was spinning off of it's axis for a good while. I've left the boiler makers alone since then.

There was a place (I'd call it a bar, but I don't think it had a license to serve...anything....I think it was just a tossed together buidling in thw woods) I used to drink at before I was 21. They swore by JD and bud. Now, I haven't mixed the two IN A GLASS in a while, but even as a booze snob, I'll admit there are times that a shot of Jack (or two) and a longneck are JUST what the doctor ordered.

Budweiser gives me the hot spits. I'll take mine with a Yards or something.

Jack Daniels is mother's milk, though.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

When I was 16 I was drinking underage in a bar called The Music Box on Canal St. in New Orleans. I had read an article about actor Lee Marvin that said he liked to throw a shot of Gin in a glass of beer. Three of those and I was about as drunk as I've ever been and I don't know how I got home as the earth was spinning off of it's axis for a good while. I've left the boiler makers alone since then.

Shame on ya Jimmy, that'll teach ya. Either Lee was a tough old dog or he was looking for easy prey when he said that!

My friends and I call it 'Laying Bricks'. I really dislike the taste of bourbon and beer in the same glass, or Jager and beer together. A mindset that "why rush a good thing?" I never slam shots, or chug huge amounts of beer. I drink at a turtle's steady pace. But I drink em. When getting drunk on pourpose I'll lay bricks: Bricks- Whiskey Mortar- Beer. Side by side in tandem, but not in the same vessel.

the best it a shot of everclear with a splash of amerata ligkt it on fire and drop it in a half mug of beer and down the hatch , about 10 of these and you will be howling at the moon.

I like to do mine a certain way, using tequila. I fill the shot glass right to the brim with my tequila (usually Sauza - cheap but good), then tip the beer glass upside down. I carefully reach into the glass and sit the mouth of the shot glass on the bottom of the beerglass. Keeping the shot glass firmly attached with a straw or finger, I then turn the beer glass up the right way. Once it's the right way up, the suction formed by the shot glass should be sufficient to keep it in place for a while. I carefully fill the beer glass with a light Mexican-style beer such as Corona or Sol (my current favourite beer to pair with the tequila is a small New Zealand brewery called Monteiths - they make a beer called Radler, which is a pale ale flavoured with lemon and lime peel during the brewing process - the citrus flavours go perfectly with the tequila), then just drink it like normal. The tequila slowly leaks out of the shot glass into the beer and adds its own flavours to that of the beer. Very refreshing on a hot day.

Pretty much the only time I ever mix beer and liquor in one glass is the BaCARdi bomb - one shot of Bacardi Lemon in a Corona. I used to love them, but don't really drink them anymore; they are too sweet. Or now and then when I'm at the bar I'll throw a shot of Jameson in randomly, but again, I don't really do that anymore.