Thanksgiving: good times, family . . . hopefully, you’ll have both. Get yourself to a quality liquor store and pick up some Hornitos Tequila! I was happy to be hosted to experience it. With several different expressions of the liquor, it’s quite versatile, even for all the stages of a Thanksgiving get-together — a meal with all kinds of gastronomically competing flavors.
Here are some recipes from Hornitos!
Stage 1: Thanksgiving Day Football
Hornitos® Tequila‘s Char-Cold One is a refreshing beer-inspired cocktail that is perfect for starting your day. Sit back, put your feet up and watch football the way that it’s meant to be watched.
Char-Cold One
- 1 ½ parts Hornitos® Plata Tequila
- 5 parts Mexican lager
- 3 dashes hot sauce
- 8 dashes Worcestershire sauce
- ½ part lime juice
Preparation: Combine ingredients in a pint glass or pilsner glass and serve. Garnish with lime.
Stage 2: The Main Course
The Hornitos® Plata Paloma is a lighter drink that won’t fill you up as you empty your plate of all of the turkey, stuffing and Thanksgiving goodness that you can stomach.
Hornitos® Plata Paloma
- 2 parts Hornitos® Plata Tequila
- ½ part lime juice
- 2 parts white grapefruit juice
- 2 parts club soda
Preparation: Combine ingredients in a glass and serve. Garnish with a lime slice.
Stage 3: The Dessert
Unwind at the end of a long day with the Brewed Awakenings coffee-inspired tequila cocktail that pairs perfectly with any pie on your Thanksgiving spread (that is if you have room for dessert.)
Brewed Awakenings
- 1 ½ parts Hornitos® Black Barrel® Tequila
- 1 ½ parts coffee liqueur
- ¼ part vanilla syrup *
- 1 part heavy cream
*To make vanilla syrup, mix together 1 part sugar, 1 part water and 1 part vanilla extract. Bring to a boil and cool before serving (approximately 1-2 minutes)
Preparation: Combine all ingredients in a glass and serve
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