Tequila Sunset

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Serve in a Sling glass

Ingredients:
2 oz Patrón Reposado tequila
1 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
5⁄6 oz Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
1 oz Thomas Henry Soda Water
× 1 1 serving
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Garnish: Lemon slice wheel

How to make:

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with soda and briefly stir

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 7/10
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Review:

A good sweet and sour balance with tequila character seemingly boosted by the honey.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Tequila Sunset contains 197 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.3 standard drinks
  • 12.17% alc./vol. (12.17° proof)
  • 17.6 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos’ Avatar John Hinojos
6th May 2023 at 01:39
This was nice. Not memorable. Recipe reminded me of the traditional rum punch without the flavours the rum adds. While you can taste the tequila, it seems to be overwhelmed by the other ingredients. After tasting, we did do a 1/3 oz float of anejo tequila on the top and it added more tequila taste. Still it was good; not great.
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Myxo Gastrid’s Avatar Myxo Gastrid
25th September 2022 at 17:25
wasn't sure exactly what "7 spoons" should be, but google told me a bar spoon is 5ml, so i used 35ml honey. the resulting drink had a very strong, sweet honey taste - too much for me. not sure if i did this one right but it was still pretty good
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
1st October 2022 at 10:00
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've reworked the recipe above to use honey syrup.
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