Tequila

[BillyBatson]

Don Fernando Anejo. It's roughly $200 a bottle, $15-20 a shot if you can find it. I have a botle of it right now, in a cobalt blue glass and a wooden box. Beats anything anyone has posted above me.

but for daily all around drinking patron is just fine, anejo for casual shots, silver for many shots and drinking games

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: BillyBatson
Don Fernando Anejo. It's roughly $200 a bottle, $15-20 a shot if you can find it. I have a botle of it right now, in a cobalt blue glass and a wooden box. Beats anything anyone has posted above me.

but for daily all around drinking patron is just fine, anejo for casual shots, silver for many shots and drinking games

Anejo has been mentioned before you several times.

 

[BillyBatson]

Originally posted by: Mike

Originally posted by: BillyBatson
Don Fernando Anejo. It's roughly $200 a bottle, $15-20 a shot if you can find it. I have a botle of it right now, in a cobalt blue glass and a wooden box. Beats anything anyone has posted above me.

but for daily all around drinking patron is just fine, anejo for casual shots, silver for many shots and drinking games

Anejo has been mentioned before you several times.

er do you even know what Anejo is? anejo is not a brand of tequila. Anejo, Reposado, and Silver are TYPES! flavors if you will. I said Don Fernando! anejo "flavor" no one before me mentioned Don Fernando.

 

[Conky]

The kind with the worm in it. Monte Alban Mezcal.

This was advice from my highschool spanish teacher and he nailed it. Simply the best.

 

[HomeAppraiser]

Originally posted by: phoenix79
anyone else? I'm looking to try something different

Two Fingers Tequila

Good reviews except for from the dorky college students that drake too much.

 

[BillyBatson]

Originally posted by: Beachboy
The kind with the worm in it. Monte Alban Mezcal.

This was advice from my highschool spanish teacher and he nailed it. Simply the best.

um not 100% sure about this but i believe Mezcal is not Tequila? It is made from another type of Agave plant but not a Tequila i thought
by the way drinking that worm does nothing to you in case you heard otherwise

 

[HomeAppraiser]

Originally posted by: BillyBatson
by the way drinking that worm does nothing to you in case you heard otherwise

Obviously you have never seen Poltergeist 2

 

[dakels]

Petron and don julio are good. I dont mind the aged stuff. Not much of a shot drinker.

The best tequila I have had had no label. Was 4 bottles a friend brought back from mexico. Was incredibly smooth even through shots. No hang over/head ache the next day which I would get from alot of the common junk like normal cuervo. I also enjoyed a bottle I had with a friend a long time ago. Was really nice, citrusy and about $150/bottle.

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: BillyBatson

Originally posted by: Beachboy
The kind with the worm in it. Monte Alban Mezcal.

This was advice from my highschool spanish teacher and he nailed it. Simply the best.

um not 100% sure about this but i believe Mezcal is not Tequila? It is made from another type of Agave plant but not a Tequila i thought
by the way drinking that worm does nothing to you in case you heard otherwise

I'm just going by taste alone, but I believe Mezcal is simply a smoked Tequila. Much in the same way Scotch differs from Irish whiskey, Mezcal differs from Tequila. I could be wrong though, this just seems logical to me.

 

[uberman]

I go for Cuervo as an everyday tequila. Clear for mixing and amber for shots is my choice. If I want a fancy tequila I go for Sauza, Tres Generationes.

When I was living in Mexico I bought a lot of Orendain tequila, it was cheap and pretty good.

Orendain Tequila - Choose the Ingles option

 

[uberman]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA
.30-30 Reposado

or

.30-30 Blanco

One is better for shots, the other is better for margaritas.

Plus it's relatively cheap at ~21 bucks for a fifth.

I did try this one Tequila in a weird blue bottle very good but like 40 bucks for a fifth and I just cant remember the name of it.

I think you're talking about Herradura tequila with a blue horseshoe on the label. It's too expensive for me. I just look around and buy something I like, since I've lived in Mexico and tequila can be cheap. And if you really knew what "NOM" means, pure Agave cactus, but it's a scam because according to NOM it can be 50% agave, go figure.

 

[KaOTiK]

Patron Silver

 

[uberman]

Originally posted by: Beachboy
The kind with the worm in it. Monte Alban Mezcal.

This was advice from my highschool spanish teacher and he nailed it. Simply the best.

Mezcal is not tequila though, but appropriate for discussion. I've bought lots of bottles of it. I believe the first Mezcal to be imported was Monte Alban Mezcal. I bought my first bottle in Alaska in 1979.

Mezcal is traditionally from the state of Oaxaca. I believe the best mezcals are produced in the Indian villages, such as Mitla, Oaxaca.

I was in the capitol city of Oaxaca. I hitchiked 30 miles to Mitla. I first stopped off to see the oldest tree in the world which is on the way. It's noted in the Guiness book as being from before Christ. The native people there were serving the best grapefruit that I've ever had.There were plastic bags filled with huge segments of pink/orange grapefruit.

In Mitla I went from house to house where families would make and bottle their own Mezcal. There were two kinds, 50 percent and 75 percent, it was all great and went down like water. I bought a couple pottery jugs sealed with wax and rope.

Now I realized I needed some food. This is a small village so I went to the zocalo or plaza for cheap food. There are always cheap restaurants in markets and this was the only show in town. I looked at a large pile of chile rellenos being tended by a woman with a fan on a stick. She'd lower the fan and the black cloud of flies would take off and then return. Like I said, this was the only show in town, and I'd been slamming mezcal before noon. I told her to heat them up, and I'm still alive today to tell the story.

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Patron ftw

Never tried this, but heard it's good.

 

[uberman]

If you like Patron, that is fine, I've served it when bartending at a party. This is interesting though.

I've spent 1.5 years in Mexico over the past 27 years. I've visited the distilleries in Tequila, Mexico and drank numerous brands on my travels. Insert story here.

So I'm on a bus along the ocean in Jalisco. Three of us are passing a bottle of tequila and taking sips of it. I don't normally open a bottle on the bus, but it was Christmas. Shouting begins, "Alcohol! Alcohol!" So we pass the bottle up to the person shouting. An older man had passed out in the heat and they splashed it on him to cool him down and wake him up. They then returned the bottle and we kept drinking, hoping that the man was not really sick and that he did not have something dangerous.

But about Patron, lots of different brands, distillery tours in Tequila Mexico, lots of advice from Mexicans helping me choose tequila. Never heard of Patron until I served it 2 years ago. I believe it is just a marketing scam and that it is not really special except in the USA.

 

[BillyBatson]

Originally posted by: HomeAppraiser

Originally posted by: BillyBatson
by the way drinking that worm does nothing to you in case you heard otherwise

Obviously you have never seen Poltergeist 2

hahaha i have actually never seen that movie

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Sauza Tres Generacions is good enough to sip.....no shots for me.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

oh, and tequila is a type of mezcal. Kind of how a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not a square.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: uberman
If you like Patron, that is fine, I've served it when bartending at a party. This is interesting though.

I've spent 1.5 years in Mexico over the past 27 years. I've visited the distilleries in Tequila, Mexico and drank numerous brands on my travels. Insert story here.

So I'm on a bus along the ocean in Jalisco. Three of us are passing a bottle of tequila and taking sips of it. I don't normally open a bottle on the bus, but it was Christmas. Shouting begins, "Alcohol! Alcohol!" So we pass the bottle up to the person shouting. An older man had passed out in the heat and they splashed it on him to cool him down and wake him up. They then returned the bottle and we kept drinking, hoping that the man was not really sick and that he did not have something dangerous.

But about Patron, lots of different brands, distillery tours in Tequila Mexico, lots of advice from Mexicans helping me choose tequila. Never heard of Patron until I served it 2 years ago. I believe it is just a marketing scam and that it is not really special except in the USA.

Most of these guys would cringe if they knew that Patron is owned by the same guy that started Paul Mitchell haircare products (available at fine salons everywhere)

 

[Krazy4Real]

El Jimador is one of my favorites.

Jose Cuervo is one of the worst I've ever tasted.

 

[Stonesoldier]

Cazadores

Smooth
got the deer on the label
ya gotta pay for good boooze

one lemon/lime squeezed into glass
add ice
add 2 shots cazadores ( 2 shots while sober / 4 shots when drunk )
add salt
add squirt

DRINK

AHHHHHH Life is GOOD

 

[Dracos]

Patron and Don Julio

 

[psydancerqt]

tequila rose

 

[Gunslinger08]

The kind that is as far away from me as possible.

 

[Pixelated]

Originally posted by: BillyBatson
Don Fernando Anejo. It's roughly $200 a bottle, $15-20 a shot if you can find it. I have a botle of it right now, in a cobalt blue glass and a wooden box. Beats anything anyone has posted above me.

but for daily all around drinking patron is just fine, anejo for casual shots, silver for many shots and drinking games

Funny you mentioned Don Fernando since this is what we were sipping on New Year's. Great tequila! But you might want to shop elsewhere since I was able to pick up this bottle for around $95 for 750mL. (haven't ever seen a bigger bottle).

Also, for something more affordable, then try Partida. Great taste for about $55/btl. Or try Herradura for less than $40/btl.