Tasty Tequila Drinks That Aren't Margaritas

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Ingredients: 

2 parts Milagro Reposado Tequila

0.5 parts Lime Juice

2 dashes Angostura Bitters

3 parts Ginger Beer

Mint Sprigs and Lime Wheel, for garnish

Method: Place 2-3 ice cubes in a Collins glass. Add fresh squeezed lime juice, Milagro, ginger beer and bitters. Stir and garnish with mint sprigs and a lime wheel.

Ingredients:

3/4 ounce Tequila Don Julio Blanco

1/4 ounce Green Pepper Jalapeño Hot Sauce

1/4 ounce Agave nectar

3/4 ounce Fresh Lime Juice

6 ounces Lager

Pinch of Celery Salt 

Method: Combine Tequila Don Julio Blanco, green pepper jalapeño hot sauce, agave nectar, lime juice and celery salt into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a highball glass then top with six ounces of lager. Garnish with a lime wheel. 

Ingredients:

1 part Sauza Blue Silver 100% Agave Tequila

1/3 part JDK & Sons O3 Premium Orange Liqueur

1/4 part agave nectar

2/3 part fresh lime juice

1.5 parts club soda

8 Bing cherries, pitted and stemmed

Method: Rim your glasses; run a lemon wedge around the rim of your glass and dip in sugar. In a shaker filled with ice, combine pomegranate juice, coconut water, Tequila, liqueurs and lemon juice. Shake and pour into prepared glasses. Garnish with a lemon wedge. If you're feeling extra ambitous, add fresh pomegranate seeds to the cocktail.

Ingredients:

 1.5 oz. Tequila Don Julio Reposado

.75 oz. Texas grapefruit shrub

.25 oz. Yellow chartreuse

.25 oz Pineapple juice

Squeeze wildflower honey

4 drops fennel bitters

Pinch of Alaskan smoked sea salt

 

Method: Add ingredients to glass cocktail shaker. Stir so that the honey is mixed with liquid. Add ice and shake. Pour into a double old fashion glass over fresh ice. [Recipe courtesy of The Smith.]

Ingredients:

1.5 oz. Herradura Anejo

1 oz. Mexican bitter chocolate paste

2 dashes Xocolatl bitters

1.5 oz. heavy cream

Method: Place all ingredients excluding the heavy cream in to a cocktail shaker filled with cubed ice. Shake hard and strain over ice in to a chilled coupe glass. In a separate shaker place the heavy cream and cubed ice, shake hard to aerate then pour carefully over a bar spoon to layer the cream over the coffee. Garnish with a dust of nutmeg and a cinnamon stick. 

Ingredients:

1.5 oz of Peligroso Cinnamon Tequila

.5 oz. of Cointreau

2 oz. of red wine,

1.5 oz of gingerale

Orange twist (for garnish)

Method: Put all ingredients in shaker. Shake well. Serve in chilled cocktail glass.

Ingredients:

1.5 oz. of Qui Tequila

.5 oz. premier cru de cognac – Frapin

1 oz. of mango nectar

.5 oz. of fresh squeezed orange

Splash of triple sec

Splash of fresh lemon and lime

Method: Put all ingredients in shaker. Shake well. Pour directly into tall glass. Garnish with large orange twist.

Ingredients: 

2 parts Milagro Reposado

0.75 parts Agave Nectar

1 part Fresh Lime Juice

4 Pineapple Chunks

2 Basil Leaves

Method:  Muddle pineapple and basil leaves in a shaker. Add remaining ingredients and ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a rocks glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with pineapple and basil.

Ingredients:

2 Parts Maestro Dobel

.5 Parts Sweet Vermouth

Dash bitters

Maraschino cherry

Method: Shake and strain. Pour into an iced mixing glass, and garnish with a Maraschino cherry.

Ingredients:

2 oz. of Peligroso Cinnamon Tequila

3 oz. Horchata

5 oz. of Finest Call Passion Fruit

Cinnamon stick (for garnish)

Method: Put all ingredients in shaker. Shake well. Serve in chilled cocktail glass.

Ingredients: 

1.5 oz. Qui Tequila

**3 oz. hibiscus syrup

1 oz. triple sec

5 oz. fresh squeezed lemon & lime

Method: Shake vigorously. Serve on the rocks with an orange twist.

**For hibiscus syrup (for about 8 drinks): Gather 1 cup of dried hibiscus flower, 3 cups of water, peel of 1 orange, and 1 cup of sugar. Bring to a boil. Simmer for 25 minutes. Let stand for 1 hour off heat. Strain into carafe or other container. 

Ingredients:

 2 oz. Herradura Silver

.5 oz. pickle juice

2 oz. Tomato juice

.5 oz. Orange juice

.5 lemon juice

.5 oz. lime juice

Large bar spoon of horseradish

.5 oz. Cholula sauce

4 large dashes of Tabasco

.5 oz. Worcestershire sauce

.5 oz. red wine

 

Method: Combine all ingredients together in a large cocktail shaker, stir and strain into a large glass filled with cubed ice. Garnish with a cayenne salted pickle and a lemon wedge.

Ingredients:

 2 oz. Maestro Dobel Tequila

.5 oz. agave nectar

.5 oz. fresh lime juice

Black salt (for rim)

Method: Rim cocktail glass with black salt. Shake and strain. Pour into an iced mixing glass.

Ingredients:

2 parts Hornitos Plata Tequila

.5 part Lime Juice

.5 part Pomegranate Juice

.5 part Grapefruit Juice

.5 part Agave Nectar

Soda Water

Method: Pour all ingredients, except soda water, into a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a pilsner glass filled with ice. Top with soda and garnish with a mint sprig.

Ingredients: 

1.5 oz. Tequila Don Julio Blanco

3/4 oz. Fresh Lime Juice

.5 oz. Ginger Syrup*

Ginger Ale for Top

Red Blackcurrant Liqueur for Float

Lime Wheel for Garnish

Method: Combine Tequila Don Julio Blanco, fresh lime juice, ginger syrup into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well. Strain contents into a Collins glass over ice. Top with ginger ale. Float red black currant liqueur. Garnish with lime wheel.

*To create ginger syrup, combine 2 parts white sugar an ginger root. Strip off the skin of one ginger root. Place in vegetable juicer. Add 2 parts white sugar to 1 part ginger juice by volume.