Name: 50:50 Margarita
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 25 ml Reposado tequila; 25 ml Blanco tequila; 12.5 ml Triple sec; 12.5 ml Agave syrup; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 4 drop Margarita Bitters

50:50 Margarita
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Photographed in an Urban Bar Freddo Old Fashioned

Ingredients:
⁵⁄₆ oz	Patrón Reposado tequila
⁵⁄₆ oz	Patrón Silver blanco tequila
0.42 oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
0.42 oz	Agave syrup
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
4 drop	Difford's Margarita Bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
RIM glass with salt (moisten outside edge with lime or orange juice and dip into salt).
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
Garnish with lime wedge.

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

I was tempted to also split the citrus juice to also bring lemon or even pink grapefruit juice into this cocktail but when I made the recipe above it was so tasty that I opted to leave well alone.

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AKA: Fifty Fifty Margarita

Variant:

Margarita on-the-rocks (Difford's recipe)
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Margarita (straight-up)
Margarita (frozen)
Mezcal Margarita

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in February 2023 by Simon Day, a fellow Discerning Drinker, and shared via a comment on our Margarita on-the-rocks page. As Simon says, "Quite excellent." I added a split tequila base to Simon's recipe and slighted upped the volumes.
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Nutrition:

One serving of 50:50 Margarita contains 178 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
18.86% alc./vol. (18.86° proof)
18.4 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Stephan Gröhn

30th April 2023 at 20:15

As it turned out this variant is so far my preferred one. I did play with its basic idea a bit further and add 0,5 cl smoky Mezcal, 0,5 cl Amaro Averna (works always well with citrus fruits and substitutes here the Margarita Bitters) and did replace the agave sirup with Mastiha liqueur (which aromatic profile IMO harmonises well with agave based spirits).

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John Hinojos

24th February 2023 at 03:24

Living in San Diego and on the border with Mexico, we have a lot of different margaritas available.
This was excellent. The combination of the two different tequilas allow the citrus to shine. This is a very refreshing margarita and perfectly balanced. Worth a try.

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