Name: Tijuana Brass
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Reposado tequila; 22.5 ml Agave syrup; 30 ml Lime juice

Tijuana Brass
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Patrón Reposado tequila
³⁄₄ oz	Agave syrup
1 oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

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Garnish: Cucumber foam

How to make:

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice and fine strain into ice-filled glass. Top with cucumber foam. (Top make cucumber foam: fill a cream whipper two-thirds full with equal parts cucumber juice, 1:1 simple syrup and egg white, then charge with two nitrous oxide (N2O) cartridges and chill.)

Review:

Pronounced "Tea-You-One-Na" this is basically a Tommy's Margarita topped with cucumber foam.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2009 by Damian Windsor at The Roger Room in Los Angeles, USA.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Tijuana Brass contains 203 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
15.69% alc./vol. (15.69° proof)
17.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Peter Barth

20th October 2023 at 20:34

Some advice on the foam:
I used 20ml Monin Sirop de concobre (cucumber syrup) and one egg white; shaked dry for 20 seconds to get an excellent tasting and stiff foam.

Overall, the cocktail is rather boring, but the cucumber foam makes things interesting, so definitily go the mile ; )