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Picklebacks

Name: Picklebacks
Yield: Serves one
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 ounce whiskey; 1 ounce pickle juice

by: Marian Bull

August 14, 2013

5 1 Ratings

Photo by James Ransom

Serves one

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Author Notes

The first time I took a pickleback shot, the brine came from a Costco-sized jar of generic brine and the whiskey was one step up from a plastic bottle. You could make this classier by using artisanal pickles and small-batch whiskey. Or you could not. —Marian Bull

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What You'll Need

Ingredients

1 ounce whiskey
1 ounce pickle juice

Directions

Pour whiskey into a shot glass.
Pour pickle juice into a shot glass.
Take a shot of whiskey. Chase with pickle juice. Repeat as necessary.

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8 Reviews

Barbara R. February 16, 2014

Tried this tonight with my homemade pickles and like them better with vodka-I also reuse my pickle juice per Food52 and add red onion, red/yellow pepper strips and Romaine "stalks"-so good. However, I had made pickled cherries last summer and I liked that very much with the bourbon-but I will buy more pickles to try it again!

Alexandra G. July 28, 2014

Mommy pickled cherries & bourbon... MUST try that!

Alexandra G. July 28, 2014

*mmmm... Oh autocorrect

Kevin F. February 15, 2014

Sooooo good (if you love pickles, which I do)!

Barbara R. February 13, 2014

"Repeat as necessary"!

Sarah M. August 19, 2013

I've never heard of this but am looking forward to giving it a "shot" ;)

Rhett August 18, 2013

Bourbon with a Homemade Caraway Pickle juice chaser. Delicious, and I don't usually like bourbon!

Casey T. August 17, 2013

Tequila works well too 8)

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