Jose Cuervo. You may love him. You may hate him. But, damnit you have to respect the power. So, I was stoked (woo… assholes) when that was the first thing people picked to be in my “choose my fate” drink for the night. Of course they couldn’t just choose “Average Jose” standard Cuervo, or any kind of distinguished gentlemen Jose Cuervo Especial. No, I got their silver tequila Jose Cuervo Clasico, aka the Tijuana street vendor of Jose Cuervo, which is already at the ass-end of the tequila scale. Yay me. The other players of the night helped out a bit, but made for an odd mix: Crown Royale, apple juice, and the good Dr. Pepper himself.

This shot took place at my friend Pat’s ridiculous house. I’ll have to post pictures of it the next time we go there, but believe me, the place looks like it should have come with a stable of naked ladies and a full staff of butlers. Anyways, my friend Sean called me up and said that some people were showing up to Pat’s early to play airsoft before everyone showed up to drink. I decided to show up around an hour after the airsoft kids, figuring this would be enough time for people to get there.

I got to his house, went around the side to the grotto-like pool area, and walked straight into confusion. There were about 50 people outside and everyone there was about 10 years older than me, tatted, and in an assortment of “thugged out” gear. I felt like a white cop in a Spike Lee movie as I walked through the crowd while the majority of the people stared at me. Once I got inside, I called around and found out that I was the first person there from our group (the airsoft thing apparently hadn’t happened) and that Pat’s brother had people over. I didn’t even know he had an older brother. Confusion over.

The rest of the night probably sounds familiar. I drank some vodka. I wrote a post that I needed to write. I drank some more vodka. People finally showed up. We played some beer pong. Then we raided Pat’s cupboards for completely random ingredients and I let anyone around pick out my death drink.

As a recap, the audience chose the shittiest tequila of the Jose Cuervo line, Crown Royale, apple juice, and Dr. Pepper. I convinced some other drunk guy to take the shot with me for a second opinion on it. I think he was more surprised than I was when we took the shots. He had spent about a minute psyching himself out first-year drinker style. When we finally took it we both looked at each other, paused, and decided that Round 2 was in order. This shot was pretty damn good. He even made a mixed drink version of it afterwards. It was a really good mix of slightly sour apple juice and that sweet Crown Royale compliment, with a little tequila bite to it. Honestly, it was another shot I thought for sure would go into my “Dare Shots” file, but probably will end up being something I order next time I’m out.

Ingredients

2 Parts: Jose Cuervo® Clasico
2 Parts: Crown Royal®
1 Part: Apple Juice
1 Part: Dr. Pepper®

Instructions

The usual, honestly. Just pour the alcohols before the mixers as always, so the alcohol isn’t floating on top. It makes a good shot or mixed drink on ice.

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