Mini Beer Shots: Recipes & How to Make Licor 43 Mini Beer

How To Make Mini Beers

Making mini beers is a quick, easy process that’s manageable for even the most inexperienced drink makers. Follow this guide with your favorite mini beer shots recipe and start pouring!

Making the Shot

Preparing mini beer shots is a simple three-step process. 

First, add Licor 43 to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously to chill the liquor. Second, pour 1 ½ ounce of Licor 43 into the shot glass. Finally, pour heavy cream over the back of a bar spoon, floating it on top of the liqueur.

Gently pouring the cream is the key to creating a mini beer shot. The cream should float on top to mimic the foam of a beer.

If the cream mixes into the liqueur, it will become cloudy and lose its beer-like appearance. 

This recipe is the classic mini beer shot made with Licor 43 original, a Spanish vanilla liqueur, and heavy whipping cream. The mini beer shot taste is sweet and creamy, and the foamy head created by the heavy cream really does look like a little beer!

Start making this shot by adding ice and Licor 43 to a cocktail shaker or a mixing glass with ice. Shake or stir until chilled, then strain the chilled Licor 43 into a shot glass.

Gently pour heavy cream over the back of a bar spoon, floating the cream on top of the vanilla-flavored liqueur.

When the shot is made correctly, the heavy cream will look like the foam head of a freshly poured cold brew.

Mini Beer Shot Recipe Variations

Horchata is a rice milk beverage flavored with vanilla and cinnamon. In this recipe, horchata is added on top of the Licor instead of heavy cream.

The end result still looks like a little beer shot, but there’s more flavor from the horchata.

This variation of the shot will be sweeter, so you may not taste the spices and botanicals in the Licor 43 as strongly.

Baileys Irish Cream is one of the most popular cream liqueurs. Widely loved for its creamy, delicious taste, Baileys is a good addition to most recipes that call for heavy cream. 

Up the alcohol content and have fun with this mini beer shot recipe!

Mini Guinness shots don’t use Licor 43, but they still look too good to resist in a mini beer shot glass. 

Kahlua coffee liqueur is used as the base in place of Licor 43. The dark liqueur perfectly mimics the look of Guinness beer.

Baileys Irish Cream is added on top to create a foamy head. This drink will be quite sweet, unlike an actual Guinness. 

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