Three Olives Vodka: Root Beer

I took a day off from writing to enjoy some family togetherness this season. It's so hard for me to find time to spend with my parents, aunt, and brother this time of year that I often get caught up in that, and forget to write, do homework, or show up to work on time. This insert is about the delicious Root Beer vodka from Three Olives.

Oh my great lord is this stuff good. As I said in my last post, I know many people who aren't vodka drinkers. The thought alone makes them quiver. My aunt being one of them. She doesn't like the smell, taste, or usual burn you get from vodka. Unfortunately, she is someone who has had bad experiences with nothing but cheap, awful vodka. So, being the amazing nephew that I am, I induldged her in the awesome that is Three Olives (I know there are higher shelved Vodkas that are probably better, but Three-O is my favorite).

My aunt loves her root beer. She has had every root beer, ginger beer, sarsparilla, and cream soda known to man. She can't go some place without finding and/or buying a new kind of root beer. A friend of mine and I went to Old Town Temecula, California while visiting some old friends. There is a "Root Beer Bar" located on main street. They boast a selection of 1,000 different root beers, including an in house recipe they make themselves. My aunt flipped when I brought back 30 kinds.

The point I'm trying to make is my Aunt is somebody who loves Root Beer. When I had her try this vodka, she loved it. She liked the smell, she liked the taste, and she didn't mind the mild burn at all. She didn't even seem to notice.

Smell: The aroma permeates right out of the bottle once you open it. It seems to me that the colder the bottle, the stronger the root beer scent. I haven't quite been able to put my finger on the brand of root beer it smells like, but right now I'm leaning more towards Barq's.

Taste: The chest burn is very minimal in the root beer flavor. The root beer taste is dead on with Barq's but the smell is misleading. It works well in alot of cocktails and mixes, ,but my favorite is this stuff on the rocks. Throwing some ice into a scotch glass (I also use the Boris Vodka Glass [google it]).

My rating:★★★★

Recipes: This is another flavor I haven't been able to tamper around with. I thought I was onto something by adding it to ginger ale or 7-up the day I bought it, but found out these were already recipes that Three Olives had come up with themselves. Of the 6 recipes I know of, I will give you the four I've tried so far.

Rock Star Root Beer
1 oz. Three Olives Root Beer Vodka
1 oz. Three Olives Vanilla Vodka
4 oz. Ginger Ale
Mix in a glass filled with ice. Garnish with a Cherry

Brotherly Love
2 oz. Three Olives Root Beer Vodka
4 oz. Lemon-Lime Soda Mix in a glass filled with ice.
Garnish with a Lime Wedge

Root Beer Floatini
1 ½ oz. Three Olives Root Beer Vodka
½ Amaretto Liqueur
Shake hard over ice and strain into martini glass.
Float a melon-ball size scoop of vanilla ice cream
in the center.

British Car Bomb
1 oz. Three Olives Root Beer Vodka
½ pint of ale
Drop glass of Three Olives Root Beer vodka
into ½ pint of ale. Chug away

Three Olives Vodka!

I understand that there are plenty of people in this world that are not fans of vodka. Whether it's because they had a bad night of drinking cheap vodka, they had a bad night of drinking great vodka, or they just don't appreciate the burning taste of it. I have a few friends that shutter at just the thought of vodka, the way I shutter at the thought of tequila. However, I like, nay LOVE, vodka. I don't consider myself a vodka connoisseur in the least. There are many, many vodkas I have tried, and many more I have not. I have, however, decidedly become a giant peddler, self-announced promoter of Three Olives© vodka. The company produces 17 flavored vodkas, the 18th being classic vodka. I have tried each and every flavor of these vodkas, with the exception of one. The tomato flavor. I just recently saw it in the store (finally) yesterday afternoon. I didn't grab it however. I believe that in order to try it, I need a great cocktail recipe. I have found one, but since I bought the Triple Shot Espresso and Bubble flavors yesterday (Bubble being a bubble gum flavor) I have to wait a few days before I purchase the tomato.

I would like to take the time on this blog to begin doing a small flavor review of each flavor every other day. I will also include 2-3 drink recipes that I think most people will enjoy. Whether it's a recipe included on Three Olive's website, or one that I came up with at the bar I bartend at, I think you'll enjoy these recipes. I'll start today with the Three Olives Bubble©:

Smell: I have found that personally I am able to ease myself into a vodka if I smell it first (same as most people). The smell is a packed punch of Bazooka Joe-esque aroma, with the slight burning sensation of the vodka. Not too strong, not weak by any means.

Taste: The taste is incredible. You get more of the bubble gum taste than you'd expect from a flavored vodka. The aftertaste it still slightly that of vodka, offset by the light, dissipated bubble gum flavor. You still get the burning in your chest that I, along with many others love. If you happen to burp after wards, it's nothing but a bubble gum taste. One of my co-workers at the bar doesn't find it at all appealing. This is a fun vodka that can work for starting a ladies night out, or just something new for the guys to try.

my rating:★★★★

Recipes: I have not been able to tamper with Bubble at the bar, so the three recipes I'll be entering today, are from Three Olives website and the little booklet attached to the bottle at time of purchase

Bubble 0-7
2 oz Three-O Bubble
4 oz Lemon-Lime Soda
Mix in ice filled glass and garnish with lime wedge

Bubble Bomb (same as Jager bomb or Vegas Bomb)
2 oz Three-O Bubble
4 oz energy drink

Bubble Martini
2 oz Three-O Bubble
1 oz Ginger Ale
1 oz Cranberry Juice
Shake with ice and strain into chilled martini glass.
Garnish with a cherry

Still Failing

It has been almost a year since I started this blog. As I have said before, it was my absolute and sincerest plan to write everyday. This is my 5th post. Good god did that plan blow up.

I'm working on starting a weight loss blog. That way I can write about my exercising, my work out goals, my food intake, that kind of stuff. My goal is to lose around 30-35 pounds by the summer time. It could make my clothes look baggy as shit, and cost me a pretty penny in a new wardrobe. That actually doesn't bother me. What bugs me is looking at all of my old pictures and realizing I was 135 lbs. all through high school, and packed nearly 100 more since graduation. I'm not fat, by any means. I have more muscle than fat, but my face does look chubbier. I also have moobs (man boobs).

The reason I want to lose this much weight is because I want to slim down while I muscle up. My grandma is planning a trip to Orlando for all of us. My brother and I also might stay with my cousin Gary this summer at his place in Daytona. There is a third possible trip being rumored about. My brother and I might stay a week with our other cousin Danny in San Diego. Alot of trips to alot beach places. I can't be the fat guy from the midwest. I'd rather be the skinny, kind-of toned dude, with a hot smile.

So I'll be posting on three blogs total. I have this one my update/satirical attacks on life blog. My creative writing class blog (www.scottieswritingclass.blogspot.com) and my weight loss blog (www.scottiesweightloss.blogspot.com)


Hope something awesome happens at the Candy Store or bar in the next few days, so I can bitch about it to you guys.


Just to prove I'm not super fat, I included this photo