They drink margaritas frozen and on the rocks. They are pretty potent, because tequila is rather strong. Another drink is the tequila sunrise. It contains orange juice, lime juice, and grenadine along with tequila, and it forms these layers of color in the glass that look like the sky at...
The labor-intensive harvesting is done by hand by agave farmers known as jimadores. Here are the main steps for turning agave into tequila: Agave harvesting: When ready to be harvested, the spiny leaves and roots are cut off the main plant body, called the agave heart or piña, which...
Best known for as “blanco” and “plata” clear spirits, tequila can also be aged in oak barrels and sold as an “Añejo” or “Reposado”. Furthermore, the best tequila is made from 100% blue agave. However, Mexico permits “mixtos”, which consist of at least 51% agave mixed wit...
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The fermented agave juice is distilled in either pot or column stills and often distilled twice to produce a high-alcohol concentrate calledtequila ordinario. Depending on the style of tequila, it may rest briefly in tanks or age in barrels, and some tequila is filtered or blended. Before bott...
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On party day, I used a raspberry-lime seltzer. It’s just as good with lime seltzer or even plain seltzer. The key is that it is unsweetened seltzer. For you tequila lovers — feel free to sub in silver tequila in the same proportions as the rum. Really lovely. ...
People can be amazing…but they can be so horrid they’ll leave a writer curled in the fetal position washing down cookie dough with tequila. Blogging is Good Practice Does every writer need to have a blog? No. Is it a good idea? Sure. Blogs play to a writer’s strengths. Writers ...
Any small amount of spirit, like this drink of whiskey on the rocks, can be called a dram. They both also have ounces, but as you can see, the relationship between grains and ounces is different in each. In case you are wondering, the US Customary System and the British Imperial System...
Tequila is a type of mezcal with an extremely well-defined sense of itself. So why is tequila called tequila? People have been making mezcal in the Tequila region of Jalisco since the 1600s. The industry developed in the nineteenth century, and the mezcal from that region grew so famous th...