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Five Fruit-Infused Margaritas & Cocktail Recipes

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Hayden Walker
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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

Hayden Walker

Hayden Walker is the Editor in Chief and Director of Operations for Austin Food Magazine

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