Beer; The Margarita Mascot
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Beer…. that back bone of the bar. It can’t be called a cocktail so it doesn’t count as a cocktail when you’re gathering the ingredients for that laborious task of building a margarita or mai tai. Margaritas especially. What a chore. I dread when I get the craving…Well, kind of. But while in the process I get this pavlovian wetness in anticipation of the happy warm glow that this drink brings. For me there best at my buddy John’s house. I taught him how to make the special Cadillac Margie about eleven years ago. He won’t remember that fact nor will he admit it but now he makes them better than I do. Or so I tell him. This is a case where truly it’s better to watch. Watch with a beer, cause that’s about how long it takes to make a Cadillac when he makes them.
So as far as being a cocktail goes does the beer count? Well technically no. It’s not a cocktail and comparatively, one for one, it’s not even close to the bender you get from a good margarita. And since, in this common bartending example, we are playing with serious liquor, I call a beer a pacifier, a filler, maybe even a primer. I will agree, beer does go with tequila. In fact if you’re doing shots, beer goes great with tequila. Habit in my college days, rarely practiced now. But the next day while grabbing the Advil and asking myself, “what did I drink last night?” I never include that first beer. It didn’t count. Or maybe it was it automatically included as part of the cocktail when I have a margarita. In either case it didn’t register on the alcoholic itinerary from the previous evening.
Beer, not in the cocktail family technically but by far the easiest drink to serve- the opposite of a Cadillac Margarita. Great idea - next time I make a Cadillac I’m using the beer hat. That way I can say I didn’t even see a beer.
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Written by Eric States