Tequila Education and Reviews
Tanteo Easy Spicy Margarita
Which is the best way to make a spicy Margarita fast? We're going to take the Tanteo additive-free, regular Blanco, and the Jalapeño Blanco.This is a spicy mix.This is a regular mix. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jay Baer (@tequilajaybaer) Hmm. That's tasty.It is nice. This is also a spicy grapefruit margarita mix. Yes. So we added a little grapefruit to this other one too to keep it fair.That's a good flavor. Mm-hmm. Really good. I like it better than a normal margarita, honestly. Because the grapefruit and the... Yeah!It's not too sweet, either. I would drink this all day long. And how long does this take to make? Like two minutes, not even.Jalapeño infuse with regular mix and a little dash of grapefruit mixer in there too. Yeah. Oooh. Because it's probably not as spicy as that one. It's actually, yeah, it's really not. But it's more vegetal. It's more like legit jalapeño.It tastes like, yeah, more like regular jalapeños. The mix is actually spicier than the tequila.Yeah. I think I actually like this one better. Gosh, I don't think you can really go wrong on this answer. Yeah, they're both delicious. I would finish both of them. Yeah. Well, you get to pick one to finish in a second. I'm going to pick one to finish. I agree. I think maybe this one. Yeah.
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Big Red Tequila Festival
This past weekend, Maddie and I went to the Bloomington Bourbon Bash and Tequila Fest right here in our town of Bloomington, Indiana. About 400 people, there so great to see everybody coming together around bourbon and tequila at the beautiful Woolery Mill. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jay Baer (@tequilajaybaer) This is actually where Maddie got married, as a matter of fact. We got to see a lot of great friends, tried the brand new Ocho 2023 Blanco, and it is spectacular, look for that one if you can find it in stores, it's just coming out now. Also got to see a bunch of other great friends Hiatus tequila. We saw our friends at G4, happen to be there at the festival, as well as we sample a little Mijenta Reposado, which is always a great choice. Love these kind of festivals. We're doing another one in January.Hope you can be there. We'll keep you posted on the details.
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Extra and Double Reposado Tequilas
Hey, it's tequila teacher Jay Baer, and have you seen or tasted this new tequila trend, extra or double reposado tequilas? Now, reposados are typically aged between 2 months and 12 months in oak, but there's a lot of difference in flavor between 2 months and 12 months. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jay Baer (@tequilajaybaer) So what some brands are doing is they're leaving reposados in the barrel longer, or even putting them in barrels two different times, and they call the finished tequila something like, "Extra Reposado" or "Double Reposado" or "Reposado Deep". El Cristiano Reposado XR is aged 11 months, it's pretty solid. I really, really like this brand new Nueveuno Reposado Deep, which is also aged I think 11 months or so. Adictivo also has a new double Reposado that's a little sweet for my tastes. But whatever it's called, what they're trying to indicate to you, the tequila buyer, is that this isn't a regular reposado, but has more aging and therefore can and should be more expensive.The reality is that there's only five official tequila categories. Blanco, Joven, Reposado, Añejo, extra añejo, and brands are trying to play the gaps between these with things like extra double or deep reposados. As always, pay attention to labels when you buy tequila and if you see one of these new extra reposado maybe give it a try.Let me know what you think.
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3 Top Reposados You Can Buy Online
There are so many good tequila brands out there, how do you pick? In some places, it's hard to get good tequilas so you got to get it online. So here's three excellent reposados that we recommend. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jay Baer (@tequilajaybaer) You can get these from our friends at Seelbach's. Go to my bio, there's a link there. Use the promo code JAY, get 10% off. What do we have, Maddie? All right! So we're starting with the Alma del Jaguar.$54, something like that. $54. It's aged in American and French Oak.Combo. Combo. And it's also a combo of wild and champagne yeast.Super classic Reposado, one of my favorite signature brand, El Tesoro. This is $63, something like that. And then a new brand, another new brand is Paladar. This is a really interesting one because they ferment it in pine as opposed to oak or steel. So it does have a little different vibe to it. We can do this Jaguar. Cheers. Cheers!Oh yeah. Ooh!Yep. All three of these, very tasty! Go online, seelbachs.com, link in bio. Promo code JAY, save 10%!
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Does Tequila Choice Matter in Cocktails?
When you're making a cocktail, does it really matter which tequila you use? We're going to find out. Yes. Maddie has to get on the stool. I have my step stool to see over the box. There's the Blanco, the High Proof Blanco, and then the Suave Reposado. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jay Baer (@tequilajaybaer) I'm going to drink these neat. Maddie's going to drink them in a cocktail. Easy Paloma from our friends at Q Mixers. Let's start over here and see what we think. Okay. That's good. I think that might be the high-proof that feels like it's got a lot of character. All three of these are red tape you can get from our friends at Sealbach's. Go to sealbachs.com. Link in my bio. Use the promo code Jay 10% off. Sweet. Ooh, which one do you like better so far? Honestly, maybe this one. This is my favorite so far. Okay. I can taste it a little bit in this too, I think. Yeah. Do you like it better with the Reposado and the Paloma, or not as well? I think I actually like it better with the Blanco.All three good, delicious, Arette, excellent brand? Go to Sealbach's. I prefer this one straight. Which one do you and prefer? That one? I think this, yeah. This is my favorite in a Paloma, a Paloma. Does it matter which tequila you use in a cocktail? Yes, it does. There you go. All right. So my favorite was, Hey! Hey! The Arette Square Bottle. How about that? Okay, this is the one. Remember we said this is like one of our favorite inexpensive ones on the show a little bit ago. Revalidated here. Yes. And your favorite was? Maddie, your favorite was the high-proof. Wow. You've come a long way. Yikes. Dangerous. Arette, always a good choice.
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DIY Joven Tequila
Ready to experiment? We're going to try to make our own... Joven! Okay, so Joven is any Blanco tequila with aged tequila added to it.Okay! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jay Baer (@tequilajaybaer) And you see more and more brands making a Joven for a couple reasons. One, you can charge a little bit more. And two, because of the older tequila in it, it makes it a little smoother, sweeter, easier to drink, et cetera. So we're like...Why don't we make our own? We've got the Siete Leguas Blanco and the Siete Leguas Añejo. Start with the just straight Blanco. Okay.Straight Blanco to see... The reference. Reference taste. I made a little weird face there. Yeah, you did! It's so good. It's so good! All right, give me one of those. Okay. Let's see.So this is a little bit. Right? You saw her do it. Blanco with a little Añejo. Give it a little swirly swirl. Cheers! Okay. Cheers. You can taste a difference.For sure! Yeah. It's still very blanco forward because of obviously the ratio. Yeah. But it does add a little more roundness to it.Yeah. Sweetness for sure. It's interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Uh-huh!Like if you're going to do, I don't know, Paloma or Margarita, like maybe a few drops of this. Let's try with more. Is that like a 50-50, something like that almost? Probably. 40-60? Yeah. Yeah. Give it a little swirly. I'm excited about this. I'm kind of nerding out on this. It actually smells different even. It does smell different. It's actually pretty good. This is like a much less expensive way to make your...Yes! Uh-huh! Make it taste more expensive. I like this plan. Which one do you like the best of the three? Maybe the middle one.Me too!Really? Yes. Yeah.I think this one is a little confused. Yeah. It's not quite smooth. Yeah. And we didn't mix... It's good!We didn't mix it, mix it, we didn't like blend it or whatever, but this almost feels like two tequilas in a glass, which it is. The one I think is the best is just a few drops.Yeah. No, I agree completely. Yeah! New trend! Lets go! New trend! Siete Leguas is always a good choice.
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Bloody Maria Tequila Cocktail
Our friends at Q Mixers just won an award, Best Cocktail Mixer, period! Wow. Period! In the LA Spirits Awards. So we got to try it.All right! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jay Baer (@tequilajaybaer) So we're going to use the Amatiteña Blanco. Okay! Which has some smokiness to it anyway, so I think it'll be actually really nice in a Bloody Maria. All right! And then fill it up with Q.Okay. All right.Little rolling action here. Boom! Back this way. Okay. All right. Let's do a little squeeze of lemon. Yep! Great. Pop that in there and then garnish with a jalapeno. Are you ready? I guess! Are you scared? Kind of. Me too. Okay.I got to say... It's pretty good.It is. It's got so much more black pepper in it than I thought...Yeah, it does.from the can thing. Uh-huh!Wow! That's got a lot of depth of flavor too. And it's not like, I've had Bloody Mary's, they're just like gross straight tomato juice or clamato. No, thank you! But this is, I could get into this a little bit.Yeah! It's pretty tasty. And with the tequila too, it's... You're going back in? Better than with vodka, I think.I agree with that. The tequila adds something to it for sure. Uh-huh! This is a nice choice for a Bloody Maria, the Amatiteña. Yeah.Congratulations to Q. I don't know if I'm ordering this all the time, but it ain't bad! That's for sure.
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Additive-free Blanco Tequilas
There are so many Blanco tequilas out there. Which ones should you drink? And sometimes you can't even get them at your store, right? Yeah. It's better to go online.Go online. Easiest way to go. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jay Baer (@tequilajaybaer) So these are all available from our friends at Seelbach's. Go to my bio, there's a link there. What do we have, Maddie? All right, so first up we've got Don Londrés. Yeah, this is like 45 or something. Super drinkable. This is ArteNOM. Unbelievable brand. This is the 1123, which is aged in barrels that used to hold mescal. It's got like a little bit of a smoky character. It's about 80 or so, but a really unusual one.One of our all-time favorites, Primo 1861 Delicious Blanco from El Pandillo. That one is 65, something like that. And then this is the Siembra Azul, another really classic brand. And this one is very traditionally made as well. Delicious, delicious Tequila, 65, something along those lines. Okay, let's see what we think here.All right. I got one of these. And I have this. Oh yeah, good. That's just the pure deal right there. I would gladly drink any of these, and in fact, I might, in the hours to come. Online. Oftentimes with your best friend, eCommerce seelbachs.com. Check our bio for link.
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Non-Alcoholic Tequilas
Big new trend these days. The non-alcoholic tequilas or tequila alternatives, and we've had to make them with a margarita, right? Yeah. Best, best drink ever.We made these with our favorite mixture, the Q margarita mix. All three of these available on Amazon. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jay Baer (@tequilajaybaer) That's actually not bad. It's not bad at all. It's got a little bit of a... an aftertaste that is just unusual. Doesn't, I wouldn't really say it's tequila, but it doesn't bother me at all. Yeah. I think it's pretty good. Sort of residual sweetness and sort of like what you would have in a barrel. Free Spirits.Sweeter. Yeah. Whoa, way sweeter. That one's a little funkier. It's almost got a... like, kind of like a coconut. It's almost, if you didn't tell me that this was a tequila alternative, I would say this was like a rum alternative. I would maybe do, since this one is a little bit sweeter, maybe this with like club soda and a lime, as like a ranch water or something. But, still good. Yeah. Spiritless Jalisco 55. Okay.Oh. Hmm. That's different. It's not super tequila-y. No. That one is even more coconuty than than the second one. Yeah. That's got a very interesting combination of flavors that I don't love. This one too it just doesn't taste quite... enough like tequila. Yeah. Uhhuh. This one? Our favorite is this one.Yeah. Yeah. The Ritual, zero proof would be the one we would pick, and also this is the least expensive one. Uhhuh. Yep. $30.
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