Rocky Mountain Bear F*cker Shot

Equal parts tequila, Jack Daniel's, and Southern Comfort — a brash, no-mixer 1990s bar-dare shot whose punishing name is half the order.

The Rocky Mountain Bear F*cker is an American bar shooter that gained popularity in the 1990s, built from equal measures of tequila, Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey, and Southern Comfort. It belongs to the same wave of deliberately crude, hard-hitting shots that thrived in late-twentieth-century college bars, where the shock-value name was as much a part of the order as the liquor itself. The drink carries no mixer, juice, or dilution — three full-strength pours combined in a single glass — so its character comes entirely from the spirits. Tequila supplies a sharp agave bite, Jack Daniel's adds charcoal-mellowed Tennessee whiskey depth, and Southern Comfort, the New Orleans whiskey liqueur created by bartender Martin Wilkes Heron in 1874, rounds the shot with fruit-and-spice sweetness that keeps it (barely) drinkable. Numerous regional variations are documented — some add a few drops of Tabasco, others swap in 151-proof rum or amaretto — but the equal-parts tequila, whiskey, and Southern Comfort build is the version most consistently recorded across bar guides.