If being stuck at home all week is starting to get you down, your home cocktail game shouldn’t have to suffer. If you fancy yourself as a novice home bartender, Playa Real Tequila offers five refreshing cocktails and margarita recipes to help you level-up to become a solid home mixologist.
Playa Real is an Austin-based Tequila offering a lineup of three 100% blue agave 80-proof, triple-distilled tequilas, including two fruit-infused products in Pineapple and Mandarin.
Headless Horseman
1.5oz Playa Real Silver Tequila
1.5oz Sweetened Pumpkin Puree
.75oz lemon juice
.25oz allspice or pimento dram (St Elizabeth)
1.5oz soda water
Shake all ingredients except soda, strain over ice in a collins and top with soda.
Garnish: Shiso leaf tucked in top of glass (looks like a pumpkin leaf!)
Pippa
1.5oz Playa Pineapple Tequila
.5oz lemon juice
.5oz Maraschino
.25 creme de violette
Shaken up in a coupe glass
Lemon flag garnish
Sun Island
1.5oz Playa Silver Tequila
.25oz aperol (optional)
.5oz orange juice
Build in wine glass
Top with sparkling wine and soda
Orange half moon garnish
Bondi
1.5oz Playa Real Mandarin Tequila
.5oz Cranberry juice
.5oz Grapefruit juice
.5oz lemon juice
Build in rocks glass
Lemon wedge garnish
Starry Nights
1.5oz Playa Real Silver Tequila
.5oz St Germain
.25oz lemon juice
Build in Collins glass
Top with sparkling water
Lemon wheel garnish