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