Iron Butterfly Shot
Kahlúa, vodka, and Irish cream layered — named for the 1960s band (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, 1968), the shot a concentrated White Russian.
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The Iron Butterfly Shot is a layered shooter combining vodka, coffee liqueur, and Irish cream, and takes its name from the influential 1960s rock band whose 1968 album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida became one of the bestselling albums in Atlantic Records history. The layered presentation — coffee liqueur at the bottom, vodka in the middle, Irish cream floated on top — creates the visual drama of a three-tier shot that the Iron Butterfly name reinforces with its suggestion of metallic strength and elegant form simultaneously. The combination of coffee bitterness, cream sweetness, and vodka warmth produces a profile similar to a miniature White Russian, making it one of the more substantive and complex dessert-style shooters of the 1970s-era cocktail repertoire.
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