August 10-Picante De La Casa

This is a weirder entrant to the margarita zeitgeist. The fact that this placed much higher than the classic marg is super surprising. Now when I say that it is nothing against this drink I am just always surprised when a variant outdoes the original. I feel the same way about the penicillin which is even more surprising since it’s a variant of a variant. This cocktail was an immediate interest for me since it looks like if a Margarita and a salsa verde had a baby.

This cocktail includes muddling jalapeno and cilantro into a Tommy’s Margarita. If you don’t know what a Tommy’s is, it’s pretty much a margarita without being a daisy which essentially means that the liqueurs are replaced with syrups. A typical margarita istequila, lime and triple sec. A tommy’s replaces that triple sec with agave and it is divine.

Full judging here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x5YMRJckd46f1uCrf47VE4O5_vO-68VOxckedZY10Ig/edit?tab=t.0