A shot glass of vodka goes down into a glass of lager and rests on the bottom like a small submarine. As you drink, the beer and vodka slowly mix and the little glass surfaces.
11¼ oz
lagere.g. Heineken · Beck's · Carlsberg · Stella Artois · Peroni
¾ oz
vodka a single 2 cl shot glasse.g. Absolut · Smirnoff · Grey Goose · Ketel One · Belvedere
Garnish: None · Ice: Served up, no ice
U-Boot (Beer and Vodka Drop)
Crisp, malty beer with a clean alcoholic warmth that grows toward the bottom of the glass as the vodka mixes in.
U-Boot is German for submarine, and the name describes exactly how the drink is served: a filled shot glass is lowered into a larger glass of beer so that it sits on the bottom. Similar drop drinks exist in many countries, from the American boilermaker, where a shot of whiskey is dropped into beer, to the Korean somaek of soju and beer and the Russian yorsh of beer and vodka.
The U-Boot is not a bartender's creation with a known history but a pub and party serve, and there is no documented inventor. What unites all these drinks is that they combine a beer with a spirit in one glass, which makes them considerably stronger than beer alone, so they are best taken slowly rather than downed in one.
Because the small shot glass sits at the bottom of the beer glass like a submarine and only comes up as the drink goes down.
With 330 ml lager and 20 ml vodka it contains roughly as much alcohol as one and a half beers.
A cold, light lager or pilsner. It keeps the drink crisp and lets the vodka blend in smoothly.
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