Batanga

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Discerning Drinkers (151 ratings)

Serve in a

Collins glass
Ingredients:
1 pinch Salt (sea salt)
5/12 fl oz Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
2 fl oz Patrón Silver blanco tequila
3 1/2 fl oz Cola (e.g. Coca-Cola or Pepsi)
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
  2. RIM glass with salt (moisten outside edge with lime juice and dip into salt).
  3. STIR salt with lime juice in base of glass to dissolve salt.
  4. Add ice and other ingredients and briefly stir.
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AKA:

Charro Negro

Strength & taste guide:


Review:

Basically a Cuba Libre made with tequila in place of rum and an all-important pinch of salt.

History:

Created in 1961 by the legendary Don Javier Delgado Corona, owner/bartender of La Capilla (The Chapel) in Tequila, Mexico. Don Javier famously ritualistically stirred this drink with the knife he used to cut the limes, something he did into his eighties.

The Batanga is a popular drink in Mexico, helped by being featured in an advertising campaign by El Tequileño, a tequila made close to Don Javier's bar.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.3 standard drinks
  • 10.65% alc./vol. (21.3° proof)
  • 18.9 grams of pure alcohol
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Bacardi's birthday

The founder of Bacardi was a Catalan wine merchant called Facundo Bacardi Massó, who left Spain for Cuba in 1830.

Valentine's Day image

Valentine's Day

You can't have failed to notice that 14 February is St. Valentine's Day, a time of year when a sum equivalent to the GDP of a small country is spent on

Fernand Petiot's birthday image

Fernand Petiot's birthday

On this day in 1900, Fernand Pete Petiot was born in Paris, to parents who owned a guesthouse - he would come to fame, correctly or otherwise, as the inventor

Margarita Day image

Margarita Day

There are days for most things in the US, but Margarita Day is a subject very close to our hearts. Because, no matter who invented this classic cocktail,

World Bartender Day image

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