Drunken Spicy Shameless Shrimp with Brazen Cocktail Sauce

Name: Drunken Spicy Shameless Shrimp with Brazen Cocktail Sauce
Yield: feed 6 to 8
Ingredients: 2 bottles or cans (12 ounces each) domestic beer; 1/2 cup cider vinegar; 2 cups water; 2 tablespoons Old Bay seasoning; 2 pounds large shrimp in the shell; 2 tablespoons minced garlic; 2 tablespoons Creole Seasoning (page 167); 2 cups Mutha Sauce (page 165); 1 cup prepared horseradish; 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce; Juice of 1/4 lime; Juice of 1/4 lemon; 2 teaspoons Tabasco sauce

January 24, 2012

These delectable shrimp boiled in beer and rolled in lots of spice and garlic are our most popular appetizer. Their “a-peel” has always been in the roll-up-your-sleeves sloppy nature of eating ‘em. There’s nothin’ polite about ‘em, and that’s the way we like it.

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