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Mixed Drink Suggestions

#23
jugglingfreak said:
Tuna and Strawberry Quik.
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#25
Biggbass said:
I get that...here's a suggestion - try a higher end brand. Really good tequila is great for sipping and will be full of flavor and after taste, without the bite or alcohol burn, just like really good Scotch or Irish whisky.
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very much agree with this.

If you got patrón, or even Familia Camarena (blue, not the "wood aged" goop), it is quite sippable without any chaser or fruit squeeze.
 
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MattZilla said:
very much agree with this.

If you got patrón, or even Familia Camarena (blue, not the "wood aged" goop), it is quite sippable without any chaser or fruit squeeze.
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My brother in law gave me a bottle of Milagro Reposado Tequila last Christmas and it is delicious served up neat. Not for shots...for sipping and enjoying. I'd never had it before, or even heard of it. Not sure if it's high end or mid but it's really tasty.
 
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#31
Pbassmanca said:
That sounds really good, served over ice I would say, or stirred with ice and strained. I bet my wife would love that...:thumbsup:
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I am originally from South Texas, where Margaritas rule, and was disappointed in the taste of margaritas in Canada, so I launched an exhaustive search to discover the best one. The original classic is:

2 oz. Tequila
1 oz. Triple Sec
1 oz. fresh squeezed lime juice

But I found it to be quite bitter, so I looked into various attempts to sweeten it. There are recipes with simple syrup, clear syrup, agave nectar, and pineapple juice. I settled on pineapple juice.

Another thing I hate about Canadian margaritas, is the way they make them frozen. They mix a margarita, then dump it in a blender with ice. Well, after 2 minutes, you just have a watered down margarita, now. The way to overcome this is one of two ways. Make the ice cubes out of margarita, or get a home slushy machine.

I have a home slushy machine. It's awesome. What you do is mix a batch of margaritas in a bucket, then freeze it for about 10 hours. Ice crystals are just starting to form in there. Then transfer it to the machine. It looks like a blender, but there is an inner steel vat that you put rock salt and ice into (just like an ice cream machine). This starts to freeze the liquid in the outer reservoir. Then you turn the motorized blades on. They continually rotate, scraping the frozen film off of the outside of the inner vat, and stirring the mixture.
 
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#34
Start with a good blender, a small can of frozen lime juice concentrate, ice, and a bottle of to-kill-ya.
Add about half the lime juice and blend for a couple seconds, add ice until it gets too stiff to blend, add just enough liquor to open a vortex in the mixture, then add just enough ice to close it back up, continue alternating tequila and ice to open and close the whirlpool. If it starts turning too white, substitute lime juice for liquor for a few rounds, then back to tequila and ice until the blender is full. Done right you can get a quart of tequila in a blender full of a nice frozen lime drink without it tasting like it has any alcohol in it.
You can use most any frozen juice concentrate and white rum works as well or better than tequila.
Wifey prefers lime and tequila so that's what i have the most experience making but occasionally i serve as bartender for a ladies night at our place and i have a couple blenders going making variations of this mixture. The girls love it because it only takes a little to get your swerve on and it has no alcohol taste so those put off by strong drink can enjoy it.
 

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