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Aug 01

Drink a Margarita on International Beer Day

By News

beermargarita     On the first Friday of every August, we celebrate International Beer Day. Why would a margarita focused site celebrate a day dedicated to beer? Beer, in combination with tequila and your lime base can be a great addition to a margarita. Many restaurants and bars around the United States have added a beer based margarita to their menu. Often times, you will see an upside down Corona or Dos Equis sitting in a margarita glass.

The origins of the day are said to come from two craft beer enthusiasts from internationalbeerday.com who dreamed up the idea back in 2007. Their website says the purpose of International Beer Day is “to gather with friends and enjoy the deliciousness that is beer, celebrate the dedicated men and women who brew and serve our beer and to bring the world together under the united banner of beer, by celebrating the beers of all nations and cultures together on this one remarkable day.” We think these are really great reasons to enjoy a tasty beer today.

Beer Margarita

INGREDIENTS

  • 6 oz blanco tequila
  • 12 oz beer (any will do – lighter style beers work best – For a Texas twist, we recommend: Saint Arnold Summer Pils or Shiner Light Blonde)
  • 6 oz Margarita Texas Mix)
  • Ice cubes to suit
  • Lime flavored salt

 DIRECTIONS

Cover the rim of the glass with the salt. Pour all ingredients into blender and blend well.

May 25

Tequila Esperanto Seleccion Anejo Review

By Tequila Reviews

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We recently traveled to Mexico for a wedding just south of Cancun. If you have never traveled international out of the Cancun airport, you are missing out. After you have successfully made it through bag screening, an escalator takes you up to what is best described as a shopping mall for alcohol. They graciously put you right in the middle of their duty free shop with what seemed to be the possibility for unlimited samplings. We ended up tasting only about a half a dozen tequilas during our limited time and ended up purchasing a bottle of Tequila Esperanto Seleccion anejo.

The Esperanto tequila website is just an image of their offerings and contact information so we had to seek out general information elsewhere.  According to Tequila.net, “Esperanto Tequila Anejo is aged 3 years in white oak barrels, acquiring exquisite wood flavor that denotes the quality of our fine Tequila, in both body and bouquet.” This is a standard definition for most anejo’s so we needed to let our senses do some testings.

Esperanto anejo’s aroma and taste includes sweet agave, pepper and subtle oak.  This is an easy sipper as it is on the sweeter side while keeping a nice balance without being cloying.  There is no alcohol burn from the moment it touches your tastes buds until it reaches your stomach.

The bottle is beautiful with the glass shaped in a unique circular design, like a delicious tequila doughnut. Inside the doughnut hole, is a blue glass agave plant. This tequila came in a box which is probably by design as the bottle feels like it could be fragile.

The cost was $70 USD (tax free) and appears to be available in markets throughout the United States for around $90. What we paid is a great deal and could see paying up a little more to get some more of this tequila.

This is definitely a sipping tequila and none of it will be going into any of our margaritas. We recommend Esperanto anejo if you like tequila neat. Hopefully we will be able to get our hands onto their blanco and reposado products in the future. Have you tried any of the tequilas in the Esperanto line? Leave a comment below and let us know what you think and which one we should try next.

 

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May 10

Margarita Most Popular Cocktail in US

By News

del-frisco-grille-margaritaNeilson released the results for it’s first on-premise consumer survey and it was a big win for tequila and margaritas. Each took the top spot as the favorite in their respective categories. This makes a lot of sense as the margarita continually reaches the top 10 most searched cocktails on Google yearly even reaching number one on occasion.

While we did not take the survey, the two would unsurprisingly be our on-premise drinks of choice as well. It would be interesting to see a state by state break-down of the survey. In Texas, bartenders are constantly creating new variations of the margarita, including seasonal offerings which help keep the drink interesting and relevant. The original can stand on it’s own too.

Here are of their findings as it relates to margaritas and tequila:

  • 23% of the U.S. population have drunk a cocktail out of home in the last three months
  • Tequila (44%) is the favorite liquor base for cocktails in the U.S., followed by: light rum (39%), flavored Vodka (39%), non-flavored Vodka (39%) and whiskey (27%)
  • Margarita (60%) is the most popular cocktail in the U.S., followed by: Daiquiri (44%), Piña Colada (36%), Long Island (33%) and Mojito (29%)
  • 48% of consumers feel that cocktail menus with named liquor brands are very important or important when choosing a cocktail
  • Chilli’s® consumers are 7% more likely to try a margarita (67%) than the U.S. average (60%)
  • Consumers are willing to pay 25% more for a cocktail made with premium spirits;
    the average willingness to spend: $10.98

What are your preferred on-premise drinks? Leave us a comment below and let us know if tequila & margaritas would have received your votes as well.

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