Golden butterscotch below, pale Irish cream floating on top, and a flavor that lands somewhere near a butter caramel. It takes one minute to build and one sip to finish.
1 oz
butterscotch schnappse.g. DeKuyper · Hiram Walker
½ oz
Irish cream liqueure.g. Baileys · Carolans · Kerrygold Irish Cream
Garnish: No garnish · Ice: Served up, no ice
Buttery Nipple
Very sweet, creamy and buttery with a caramel finish. Low to medium strength for a shot.
The Buttery Nipple is a party shooter that became popular in American bars in the 1980s and 1990s, the era of cheeky shot names and brightly flavored schnapps. Butterscotch schnapps had become a common back bar bottle by then, and pairing it with Irish cream was an obvious match.
No creator or bar is reliably recorded. The drink belongs to the family of layered shots, alongside the B-52 and the Slippery Nipple, where the fun lies in floating one liqueur over another. Some bars shake the two with ice instead and serve it as a chilled shooter, which trades the look for a smoother, colder sip.
Like a creamy butterscotch candy: sweet, buttery and smooth.
The top liquid was poured too fast or the order was reversed. Butterscotch schnapps goes in first, Irish cream floats on top.
Some bars add a little vodka to make it stronger, but the classic version uses only the two liqueurs.
The perfect sound
Sweet, buttery and playful.
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