Stop Light Shots: ready, set, drink

If you’re looking for a colorful and gamified drink for your next get together try out these stop light shots. With red, yellow and green colored shots you’ll be ready to say ready, set and drink!

What is are Stop Light Shots?

Stop light shots are actually three separate shots. One is red and color, one is yellow in color and one is green in color just like the colors on a stoplight. The base liquor in each shot is vodka and the colors are made by the different mixers used. The mixers are cranberry juice, orange juice and Midori liqueur.

Vodka is a clear liquor. That makes it great for the base liquor in the shots since it won’t change the color of the mixers at all. Vodka tends to be a rather tasteless liquor which means that each of these shots will taste mostly like the mixer with a slight alcoholic bite as they go down.

When you’re choosing juice, the fresher the juice the better. Additionally, it’s best to get a pulp free orange juice so that your shot is a smooth texture.

Midori liqueur which is used to make the green colored stock light is a melon flavored liqueur. It originated in Japan. It is very sweet and it is flavored with honeydew and Yubari melons.

Occasions to make this drink

This drink is a fun party drink since it’s sort of like a game in shot form. Here are a few times you might want to serve it up:

• college parties
• tailgating
• bachelor and bachelorette party
• sports celebrations

Shot variations

If you would like some different flavors for these shots, here are a few ways to change them up but stay true to the colors:

• Use a different liquor. The vodka is very well suited for these shots since it has a neutral flavor, if you prefer to use a different liquor like like silver tequila you certainly can. Just make sure that the liquor is clear.
• Use flavored vodka. If you want to change up the flavors of your shots you can certainly use a flavored vodka. For example, cranberry vodka would go well with the cranberry juice and vodka Citron would go well with the orange juice. But really, feel free to do any flavor combination you prefer.
• Replace the orange juice. If orange juice isn’t your favorite, you could use another yellow or orange flavored juice such as pineapple juice.
• Replace the Midori. If Midori isn’t your favorite flavor, you could replace it with something like green Hawaiian Punch.
• Replace the cranberry juice. If you don’t love the flavor of cranberry juice, you can replace it with another red drink such as grenadine or fruit punch.

Some other colorful shots are the traffic light shot and jolly rancher shots.

How to make this drink:

These shops are easy to make. They only need two ingredients a piece. They do take a little extra time to make since you have to shake each one up separately.

Equipment:

• Shot glasses
• jigger
• cocktail shaker
• Hawthorne strainer
• bar spoon

Ingredients:

• 3 oz Vodka
• 1 oz Orange Juice
• 1 oz Midori
• 1 oz Cranberry Juice
• Ice

Instructions:

Step one

Get started by making sure you have everything necessary including three shot glasses, jigger, shaker, Hawthorne strainer, ice, vodka, cranberry juice, Midori and orange juice.

Note: since these are shots and will be taken all at once, you don’t have to shake them if you don’t want. However, if you do want to shake them, you will need to measure each shot individually into the shaker, shake well. Rinse it out and repeat for each of the three shots.

Step two

Take your jigger and your vodka. Measure 1 oz of vodka and toss it in the first shot glass. Repeat this for each of the three shot glasses.

Step three

Take your jigger and your cranberry juice. Measure 1 oz of cranberry juice and toss it in one shot glass.

Step Four

Take your jigger and your midori. Measure 1 oz of midori and toss it in the next shot glass.

Step Five

Take your jigger and your orange juice. Measure 1 oz of orange juice and toss it in the last shot glass.

Step six

Line your shot glasses in a row starting with red and then yellow and then green. Take them one after the other until you have finished all three.

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