Dia Nacional del tequila

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Roughly, health, money and time to spend it. We have been to the town of tequila twice. Camped there overnight in a parking lot. Fun little town.

I may have lost my precious barrel of Tequila contrabanda that I barreled in a Heitz cellars oak pony keg in 1984. Yep, going on 34 years aged. Friends were terrorized into abandoning their house and fleeing to the USA and I lost my friends and I lost the absolute finest tequila I have ever sipped. In 1984 the barrel of white lightnin cost me more than a hundred dollars from the distillery.

Dang!

National Tequila official day.

Salud is health and pesetas is the old Spanish word for pesos (money) and tiempo para gastarlos is time to spend them, it is a fraze that is also used when you sneeze, when you lift a tumbler of Tequila and you say salud and preceede to savor it in company off good friends that is whhat a good life is all about.

Salud amigos.

Agood bottle of Tequila should be savoured in the same manner that a good Cognac is sipped, the cheap Tequila can be done with the lime and salt.

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Buen agave de azul comes from Jalisco.
Many people have never had good tequila.
I had a party last fall and cooked traditional food outside on a fire. I had two sisters that grew up cooking that way making tortillas on a comal. I put out one good bottle of tequila and put on the Mexican music. Many people were talking Spanish. The girls drank some tequila while cooking out of tiny little plastic shot glasses. They took limon y sal with it and really enjoyed it.

ppine wrote:
Buen agave de azul comes from Jalisco.
Many people have never had good tequila.
I had a party last fall and cooked traditional food outside on a fire. I had two sisters that grew up cooking that way making tortillas on a comal. I put out one good bottle of tequila and put on the Mexican music. Many people were talking Spanish. The girls drank some tequila while cooking out of tiny little plastic shot glasses. They took limon y sal with it and really enjoyed it.

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I wish you could have been there too John and Angela.

We would have loved it too, but being that we are in Zihuatanejo now, it's tough. We did, however, raise a glass of Cazadores and my favorite, an unbranded plastic bottle of "Mezcal" (only because it's from the wrong region) in celebration of the day.

Good tequila does not need adulterating.

Good God, salt and limon dropped into Courvoisier?

Tomato juice diluting craft Pilsner?

I would have throttled anyone bring salt or limon anywhere near my Tequila.

Like being served Kobe beef in Yokohama then ordering up a Bottle of A1

(shudder)

I have a friend from near Mexico City that makes a great chelada at his local bar. Tomato juice and salsa mixed with a good lager, salt on the rim and plenty of lime juice. On a hot day it is the best thing to drink. There is a reason why sal y limon has been so popular with tequila for hundreds of years.

The right way to drink is the way you like it.
On St Patrick's Day I was in our local Basque bar right when the mus tournament (old card game) let out. Some old Bascos were ordering Crown Royal and cranberry juice. People drink what they like.