How to Make a Super Irish Car Bomb

The Super Irish Car Bomb is one of my favorite cocktail recipes. I created this drink a couple years ago to promote a website that has since been dying a slow, painful death. What separates the "Super Irish Car Bomb" from the regular Irish car bomb is the sheer volume of alcohol content. All of the ingredients in the Super Irish are multiplied by either four or six times the volume to that of the regular Irish car bomb. One thing remains the same, however, it lays you out and tastes delicious. Please drink responsibly, it's quite strong.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Your drinkin' shoes
• 2 American Pint cans of Guinness
• 3 shots of whiskey (preferably Irish)
• 3 shots of Irish Cream Liquor (preferably Bailey's)
• ~8 ounce "shot glass"
• A "cup" large enough to hold ~40 ounces of booze

1. Gather your drinking vessels; your mug and your shot glass. Perhaps the most important feature when choosing your goblets is the capacity of the Guinness glass. Is your 32 oz beer going to overflow when you drop in a glass holding six shots (six shooter)? If the answer is no, please move to step 2.

2. 
    
   Guinness - sweet bitter nectar

   Pour the two cans of Guinness into the larger glass. Pour the Guinness respectfully (at ~45 degree angle), or it will foam up, and you will hear about it from every beer snob on Youtube, as I did.

3. 
    
   Jameson Irish Whiskey

   Pour three shots of Irish whiskey into the over-sized shot glass. If you watch the referenced video, you'll notice that I used Canadian Club to save a couple of bucks. Die-hard car bomb fans will burn you for this. If I had to do it all again, I'd probably use Powers; a great tasting, relatively inexpensive Irish whiskey.

4. 
    
   Bailey's Irish Cream Liquor

   Pour three shots of Irish Cream liquor into the existing whiskey shot. Purists will insist on Bailey's, but you won't see me complain if you go with the budget brand.

5. Drop the payload shot into the Guinness, and finish the drink as quickly as possible.

6. You have about 10 minutes before you black out, so quickly complete any pending tasks or errands (within walking distance, of course).

Tips & Warnings

• Try this out with a regular Irish car bomb first; make sure you like the taste, so you don't waste a good batch of booze.
• If you're worried about chugging the massive quantity of the Super Irish Car Bomb, practice using water until you feel comfortable enough to commit.
• If you'll notice, I previously specified Guinness in "American" pints (16 oz). I learned from my beloved European critics that their pints are closer to 20 oz.
• I advise against drinking this drink. It's the near alcoholic equivalent of drinking eight beers in ten seconds. I'm not a role model - I'm just a 260 pound idiot.
• If you are going to drink this, please don't drive.

Resources

• My Super Irish Car Bomb Video

[johngalt310]

on 3/26/2009 I'm always saying there aren't enough Super Irish Car Bomb articles on eHow.com. Thank you.

[davelopan]

on 2/23/2009 It's a doozy alright. I saw one on YouTube called the Metropolis Car Bomb...one gallon of Guinness and a full pint of shots. It took several people like 10 minutes to drink the thing. Thanks for reading!

[Upon-Request]

on 2/23/2009 I can't imagine a "super" version - I have recurring nightmares of the last Irish Car Bomb I drank - Holy Cow... :)