Tequila, it makes me happy...

[tommmy]

Jose Cuervo; silver or gold but Mr Slingbax is a specialist in said spirit and prefers silver.

Available in all good booze boutiques and some supermarkets

bloody mary in hot tent is a wrongun.

[sonny]

The silver will make your nipples stand out like champagne corks, even if you're a man. The gold is smoother and much more drinkable.

[MissB]

Tequila is good, but Cachaca is better... Caiprinhas... Mmmm....

[Fairies for Change]

<slightly tongue in cheek this>... Do you think as a vegetarian I should drink tequila? I love it... but the other week I saw a bottle with a worm in it and for the first time I thought "ooppps".

What do you think?

[ukslim]

<slightly tongue in cheek this>... Do you think as a vegetarian I should drink tequila? I love it... but the other week I saw a bottle with a worm in it and for the first time I thought "ooppps".

What do you think?

[Toilet Duck]

What you need is to do the "stuntman"....tequila, salt and lemon. Snort the salt, squirt the lemon in your eye, and all of a sudden the tequila is the easy part!

[Flounder]

Have just recently been tutored in this, but the stuff to buy is 100% Agave. Anything else is mixed with a cheaper alcohol and that's what gives you the nasty time. This works brilliantly and there's no hangover. You can get this in silver or gold in Waitrose for £15.99

[Ponyegg]

Anyone out there a tequila expert? I want to take some this year but don't want to take utter rubbish so can anyone recommend a decent tequila that's available to buy, preferably in a supermarket but failing that in big London.

I tried to make a litre of Bloody Mary one year which was completely rancid and plan this year to fail miserably at traditional tequila shots also.

Edited June 4, 2010 by Ponyegg

[Ponyegg]

You can get decent examples for around £40 a bottle from www.thewhiskyexchange.com. You'll pay more in Harrods/Fortnums though.

[jamseyboy]

For less then £20 a bottle TEQUILA BLU Reposado is a decent drink......the weird thing is its Australian !

[4AssedMonkey]

I have a mate who likes her tequila. She won't give it me any more as it makes me a bit handy for some reason.

[Bohemian]

/\ Silver Patron - Everthing else is piss. /\

Edited June 4, 2010 by Bohemian

[Thatmax]

Jose Cuervo, or Sierra I normally go for. I don't really know many other brands but those two go down well. One which I tried recently was an American made one with a cowboy on the front... don't buy it, its god awful! I had to carry my friend home that night :S

[___S_o_m_a__]

...One which I tried recently was an American made one with a cowboy on the front... don't buy it, its god awful!...

[Pot]

Tequila is nasty

[dan05delaney]

Tequila is nasty

[Craigston]

I've bought online from here before:

http://www.thedrinkshop.com/products/produ...st.php?catid=78

The Tres Generacion is very nice I'd agree, I quite like Sauza's Hornitos in margaritas as well. 'd heartily suggest getting one of the Jose Quervoz Grand Familia though, expensive but uttrly sublime, aged in french White Oak it's got great vanilla flavours like a good cognac.. My local pub has it in stock (primarily for me) and I love giving it to people and seeing if they can tell what spirit it is ;-)

[Ponyegg]

Thanks for the tip fellow agave lover! Will give that a try next. Bit pricey for Glasto though... How do you take yours into the fest?

[Mas]

/\ Silver Patron - Everthing else is piss. /\

[Mas]

Have just recently been tutored in this, but the stuff to buy is 100% Agave. Anything else is mixed with a cheaper alcohol and that's what gives you the nasty time. This works brilliantly and there's no hangover. You can get this in silver or gold in Waitrose for £15.99

[Craigston]

Decant into a plastic bottle, not ideal but it complies with the rules.

[Ponyegg]

It almost feels criminal decanting from what's usually such a beautiful bottle into plastic!

Try a thermos: it keeps it cooler.

[Ponyegg]

As promised, here's a photo of some of my tequilas (most of the nice ones at least):

So you've got here:

1921 (plata)

Centenario Reposado

Centenario Plata

Sauza Hornitos (reposado)

Tres Genercions Plata

Patron Silver

Patron Reposado

Casa Noble Plata

Porfidio Plata

Corralejo Reposado

El Tosoro Reposado

Jose Quervo Grand Familia Anejo (the yellow/black box behind it is what it comes in)

Herradura Plata

Don Julio Anejo

7 Leguas Blanco

Don JulioReposado

Jose Cuervo Tradicional

All told about £600+ (jesus, that's the first time I counted it all up!!!) there's abnout another 10 bottles of various mixtos and Mescals. Not sure what the vintage is on the Night Nurse though :-)

We could always have a tequila tasting session at one of the meets :-) I'll be happy to breing along the 1921 and the 7 Leguas.

Edited June 5, 2010 by Ponyegg

[Boris]

We could always have a tequila tasting session at one of the meets :-) I'll be happy to breing along the 1921 and the 7 Leguas.

[OneLittleFish]

Took Lidl tequila to Glasto last year, f**king awful stuff. Will spend a bit more on the dancing juice this time round

Not tequila, but has anyone here tried Spirytus? A couple of mates introduced me to it, 95% ABV vodka. FFS, whatever you do, don't think 'can't be THAT bad.' Brutal, brutal hangover...