How to Celebrate National Tequila Day

To celebrate Countrywide Tequila Day, we’re shaking up tequila cocktails with our mates at Patrón Tequila. From lightly floral Reposado to easy, golden Extra Añejo, their selection of handcrafted tequilas are manufactured with large-excellent elements that’ll add an more taste enhance to palomas, margaritas, and so much additional.

Ready your cocktail shakers and mixing glasses: In anticipation of Countrywide Tequila Day (July 24) we’re coming in very hot with a assortment of our favored tequila-dependent beverages. From inventive sippers like a Raspberry Rose Paloma and a Smoky Tequila Mule to a traditional lime and Cointreau-based margarita, we guess there is some thing to be sure to every single palate in this list. (And hey, if you really don’t want to consume your tequila, you could always pour it above watermelon.) But just before diving in, it could be practical to know your most popular design and style of tequila, which signifies being aware of the variances concerning the 3 most important sorts: blanco, reposado, and añejo tequilas.

Tequila Basic principles

• Blanco, or silver, is the tequila baseline. Usually unaged, it is diluted and bottled in its crystal-apparent variety. With a clean, a little sweet taste, blanco tequila like Patrón Silver is ready for any cocktail, even some thing as basic as a tequila and soda (which comes about to be my go-to when I’m at a bar with confined choices). It has a flippantly peppery finish that would make it best for experimenting with innovative flavor additions, like a Raspberry Rose Paloma or a Tropical Sage Paloma.

• Reposado tequila—typically a gentle shade of amber—is aged in oak barrels for at minimum two months, and up to one particular year. Patrón’s reposado is sweet in flavor with notes of oak and citrus, so it can hold its own in a cocktail. Check out it in a traditional margarita, or shake it up with a Spicy Mango Margarita.

• Golden añejo tequila is aged for in excess of a 12 months in oak, which imparts notes of caramel and vanilla. Patrón makes use of a mix of French and Hungarian oak, as nicely as utilised American whiskey barrels for their añejo, giving it a complicated flavor reminiscent of raisins and honey. Delightfully sippable on its very own more than ice, añejo also pairs nicely with citrus: try subbing it for the whiskey in an Previous Fashioned.

Any fashion of this blue agave-centered spirit would be superb in the cocktails we’ve rounded up for National Tequila Day below.

1. Common Margarita

It feels mistaken to point out a day devoted to tequila with no very first contacting out the queen of tequila cocktails, the margarita. This recipe is as common as they occur: tequila (any form), Cointreau, refreshing lime juice, and agave syrup, on the rocks in a glass with a salted rim.

2. Raspberry Rose Paloma

This fairly in pink cocktail tastes as fantastic as it appears to be. Shake refreshing raspberry syrup with Patrón Reposado, grapefruit and lime juice, moreover a couple dashes of rose water, then pour into a glass with a crushed freeze-dried raspberry rim and finish the consume simply just with club soda.

3. Spicy Mango Margarita

This mango margarita is not automatically a thing you can toss alongside one another at a moment’s discover, but with a little bit of prep, that 1st sip is very well worth it. Award-winning mixologist Lynnette Marrero’s mango margarita commences with Patrón Silver Tequila and is shaken with mango shrub, grilled pineapple juice, and just a hit of sizzling sauce

4. Tropical Sage Paloma

Pineapple and sage may well not be the first flavors you think of when you listen to “paloma,” and that is what tends to make this cocktail so genius. The two components are simmered into a syrup, and from there shaken with Patrón Reposado and lime juice. Prime each drink with grapefruit soda and you’re prepared to cheers.

5. Smoky Tequila Mule

Pair a spicy uncomplicated syrup with lime juice, ginger beer, and Patrón Reposado to make this Smoky Tequila Mule. The spices from the chipotle syrup and ginger will enhance the sweet, citrusy Patron Reposado.

6. Hibiscus Margarita

The colour of this Hibiscus Margarita is ample to attract in anybody, but wait around till you basically get a sip. Recipe developer Shannon Mustipher was “inspired by escalating up in Charleston, which is a definitely vibrant and floral city—just like the flavors in this cocktail,” which options Patrón Silver, spiced hibiscus syrup, refreshing lime juice, and orange Curaçao.

7. Rosemary Paloma

Have you completed your bottle of Patrón Silver yet? If not, it’s time to attempt this Rosemary Paloma. The woody herb-based mostly syrup and grapefruit soda make this cocktail a thing you will be psyched to consume all year spherical.

8. Strawberry Margarita on the Rocks

Blended margaritas are enjoyment, but this strawberry 1 is served on the rocks and is created with fresh strawberries. The juicy, floral fruit pairs so well with tequila and lime you should possibly make a pitcher rather of a one serving.

9. Session Margarita

For those who like a a lot less boozy beverage, but nonetheless like to enjoy a cocktail, glance no even more than the Session Margarita. A blend of manzanilla sherry, tequila (whichever model you prefer), orange liqueur, fresh lime juice, and a contact of agave syrup, this reduce-ABV margarita is just a flavorful as a single with far more tequila, but is a considerably slower start off to the night.

Our mates at Patrón Tequila have been distilling their 100 % Blue Weber Agave tequilas in Jalisco, Mexico for around 30 decades. Just about every one of their handcrafted tequilas begins with superior-excellent uncooked ingredients—from sleek, citrusy Patrón Silver to extremely-sippable, oak barrel-aged Patrón Añejo. To insert flavorful depth to your upcoming cocktail, snag a bottle of Patrón at a retailer close to you.