It's sour. It's briny. For some, it's nauseating. For others, a godsend. It's the pickleback shot, an unusual combination of drinking whiskey and pickle brine that has quickly become a bartending ...

Shot glasses of whiskey and pickle juice with pickles become a pickleback shot - 5PH/Shutterstock The epitome of an "If you know, you know"-type drink, the famed pickleback comes as two separate ...

Weird ice cream flavors are everywhere right now, but this might be the first one you can use to chase a shot of cheap whiskey. Say hello to the Frosty Pickleback. Step 1: Purchase one of CreamCycle ...

The Pickleback, which is not a Nickleback tribute band, is a relatively new drink combo that pairs up a shot of whiskey with a pickle brine chaser. OnMilwaukee recently took the "Pickleback Challenge" ...

No cocktail raises more eyebrows and yields more skepticism than the pickleback. Like most things hip, innovative and out of the ordinary, the pickleback, which is a shot of whiskey chased immediately ...

FEW DRINKS INSPIRE skepticism quite like the pickleback, the cult Americana-inspired whiskey shot whose signature ingredient can be a deterrent to the uninitiated. The drink—a slug of whiskey followed ...

Sign up to get the best of Boston, every day. Move over, Boilermaker: There’s another hipster poison taking local bars by storm. Piggy-backing on the pickled ...