11 Super-Easy to Make Tequila Cocktails
November 9, 2007
Got a bottle of tequila and not much else? Don’t know what you can possibly mix it with?
We collected 11 super easy tequila recipes that don’t require strange and hard to find ingredients. So if you’re not much for shooting that tequila straight, hopefully you’ve got the right stuff to make at least one of the drinks below:
1) Tequila Sunrise
Ingredients: Orange juice, Grenadine, ice
A classic - Place the Orange Juice and about two shots of tequila in a cocktail mixer with crushed ice. Shake thoroughly, and pour into a glass with 2 ice cubes already in it. Next, add the grenadine slowly, allowing for it to rise. Stir it all up really well for the best taste.
2) Tequila Slamer
Ingredients: Fizzy lemonade (best is canned because it fizzes more), or champagne
Pour the tequila and lemonade into a shot glass, leaving about a fifth of the glass unfilled. Cover the top of the glass with your bare palm, grabbing it, and raising the shot glass above the table. Now “slam” the glass down (don’t break it). This mixes up the two ingredients, making the drink fizz. Now try to down it in one gulp.
Note: If you’re using champagne as an alternative to lemonade, this is called a “Slammer Royale.”
3) The Bull
Ingredients: Light beer (Mexican beer is best), lemonade
Pour the tequila, about half a glass of light beer, and the lemonade in a glass and enjoy. The colder this drink is, the better.
4) Mexican Mouthwash
Ingredients: Peppermint liquor
Pour equal amounts of tequila and peppermint liquor in a shot glass. Gently swirl. Drink as a shot.
5) The Giraffe
Ingredients: Grapefruit juice, ice
Pour tequila in a tall glass and add ice. Swirl the two around for a second. Then add grapefruit juice to taste.
6) The Cockroach
Ingredients: Kahlua
Pour the tequila and the Kahlua into a glass and drink. Good alone or as an after dinner liqueur.
7) Turbo
Ingredients: Vodka, fruit juice (your choice), ice
Pour tequila, vodka, and some fruit juice (to dilute/ taste) into a cocktail mixer. Add crushed ice and shake hard. Pour into a tall glass and serve immediately.
8) Mexicola
Ingredients: Cola, lime juice (squeezed from one average-sized lime), ice
Pour the tequila into a tall glass, followed by the fresh squeezed lime juice. Add ice and swirl. Add cola to taste.
9) Navy Seal
Ingredients: Jagermeister
Pour equal amounts of tequila and Jager into a glass with ice and serve.
10) Gold Driver
Ingredients: Orange juice, lime wedge (optional)
Put about two shots of tequila in a glass full of ice and fill the rest up with orange juice. Squeeze in the juice from a lime wedge if you have one, and serve. It’s like a Screwdriver, but with tequila.
11) Tequila Furnace
Ingredients: Tabasco sauce, lime, salt.
Pour the tequila into a shot glass and add about 3-6 drops of Tabasco. Stir gently, and then take it like a normal tequila shot (lick the salt first, do the shot, then bite the lime). You’re gonna be breathing fire after this one…
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White Russian
November 4, 2007
About: The favorite drink of “the Dude” from the Big Lebowski, the White Russian is not traditionally Russian, but it is called that because vodka is the primary ingredient.
Ingredients:
- 2 oz vodka
- 1 oz coffee liqueur
- cream (or milk)
A standard shot of 80-proof liquor is about 1.5 ounces. measure accordingly.
Directions:
- Pour vodka and coffee liqueur over ice cubes in an old-fashioned glass.
- Fill with light cream or milk and serve.
The Zombie
October 28, 2007
About:
The Zombie is an especially potent cocktail made of fruit juices and rum. It’s fruity taste works to conceal it’s extremely high alcohol content. It was invented by Donn Beach in the late 1930s. He concocted it one afternoon for a friend who had dropped by his restaurant before flying to San Francisco. The friend left after having consumed three of them. He returned several days later to say that he had been turned into a zombie for his entire trip.
Ingredients:
- 1 oz light rum
- 1 oz golden rum
- 1 oz dark rum
- 1 oz apricot brandy
- 1 oz pineapple juice
- 1 oz papaya juice
- Dash of Grenadine or other syrup
- 1/2 oz 151-proof rum
A standard shot of 80-proof liquor is about 1.5 ounces. measure accordingly.
Directions:
- Shake all ingredients except the 151-proof rum in a shaker with ice.
- Strain into a Collins or hurricane glass filled with crushed ice cubes.
- Float the 151-proof rum on top.
- (optional) Garnish with pineapple slice and cherry.
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