TACOS ARE BETTER WITH A SIDEKICK
Let's face the facts - tacos are better with a drink in hand! Even if you're taking your #SceneTacoWeek23 special to-go, you can still enjoy Black Sheep Tequila cocktails at home with one of the delicious cocktail recipes below. For more Black Sheep Tequila recipes, click HERE.
Bloody Maria (Reposado)
INGREDIENTS:
6 oz. Bloody Mary mix
2 oz. Black Sheep Reposado Tequila
1/2 oz. lime juice
6 dashes of chocolate-chili bitters
Agave nectar and flake sea salt or sal de gasano for rimming glass
DIRECTIONS:
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Rim half of a chilled Collins glass in agave nectar, followed by salt.
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Put all other ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice, and shake vigorously for 11 seconds.
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Pour into your rimmed glass over four ice cubes, and stir with a bar spoon.
Salty Chihuahua
INGREDIENTS:
1 oz. Black Sheep Blanco or Reposado tequila
½ oz. triple sec
6 oz. grapefruit juice
DIRECTIONS:
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Combine tequila, triple sec, and grapefruit juice in an ice-filled shaker and, well, shake it. Add ice to a salt-rimmed glass, strain cocktail mix into it, and garnish with a grapefruit slice.
Manhattan
INGREDIENTS:
2 oz. Black Sheep Anejo or Reposado aged tequila
¾ oz. sweet red vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters
DIRECTIONS:
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Stir all ingredients until chilled, strain, and serve straight up.
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Rosemary Refresher
INGREDIENTS:
2 oz. Black Sheep Reposado tequila
1 1/2 oz. grapefruit juice
1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
3/4 oz. rosemary- infused simple* syrup
1 rosemary sprig, for garnish
*Rosemary- Infused Simple Syrup
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1 cup sugar
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1 cup water
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5 sprigs rosemary
DIRECTIONS:
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In a cocktail shaker, shake together tequila, juices, and simple syrup with ice.
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Strain into a rocks glass, over fresh ice.
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Garnish with rosemary sprig.
For Rosemary-Infused Simple Syrup
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Combine water and sugar in a small saucepan. Heat to a boil, continuously stirring until the sugar dissolves. Once the water starts to boil, lower the heat to a simmer.
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Gently roll the rosemary sprigs between your hands to release the aroma from the leaves, and then add them to the simmering liquid.
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Allow to simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature. Remove the rosemary sprigs. Pour the syrup into a container and keep in the refrigerator.
*This simple syrup is enough for several cocktails.
TEQUILA OLD FASHIONED
INGREDIENTS:
2.5oz. Black Sheep Reposado or Anejo Tequila
0.5 oz. light agave nectar
3 dashes of bitters
Rocks glass
Orange swath and Maraschino cherry
DIRECTIONS:
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Pour ingredients into a mixing glass, stir and strain directly in a glass over ice
BLACK CACTUS
INGREDIENTS:
2 oz. Black Sheep Tequila Blanco
1 tbsp. Prickly Pear purée
1/2 fresh squeezed lime
1/2 tsp. Jalapeño purée
2 oz. Club Soda
Roasted Gusano salt rim
Double Old Fashioned glass
Lime wheel
DIRECTIONS:
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Rim glass with lime and apply Gusano salt
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Shake all ingredients with ice and pour into the glass
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Top with club soda and lift the mix with a spoon to the top.
