Beerita
A lively Tex-Mex party cocktail blending blanco tequila, fresh lime, and triple sec right into a bottle of ice-cold Mexican lager.
Ingredients
- 12 oz Mexican lager, well chilled
- 2 oz blanco tequila
- 1 oz fresh lime juice
- 0.5 oz triple sec
- Chili-salt for rimming
- Lime wedge, to garnish
Instructions
- 1Rim a pint glass or large mug with chili-salt and fill with ice.
- 2Add the tequila, lime juice, and triple sec to a shaker with ice and shake briefly until chilled.
- 3Strain the shaken mix into the prepared glass.
- 4Top with the cold Mexican lager and stir gently once.
- 5Garnish with a lime wedge.
Origin & Story
The Beerita — also called a Beer Margarita or Coronarita — emerged from the cantinas and backyard parties straddling the Texas-Mexico border sometime in the 1980s or 1990s, where a cooler full of icy Coronas and a jug of margarita mix were both standard party supplies. The clever solution of combining them was too obvious to ignore. Today the Beerita is a tailgate and beach staple across the American Southwest: it carries the bright citrus and salt of a margarita with the cold, easy-drinking quality of a lager, and the tequila hides just well enough to be dangerous. Chili-salt on the rim and a lime wedge squeezed in complete the effect.
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