Are you supposed to taste the liquor in a Margarita or Bloody Mary?

[Ouabache]

I say no. I consider them to be drinks designed to cover the acutal taste of any liquor.

[JVS]

1. If you can't tast the liquor, there isn't enough liquor!

[Ouabache]

4. I say if you taste the liquor then more liquor than the recipe calls for

has been poured.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. You're not making them strong enough.

I feel that you should always taste the liquor.

[latebloomer]

3. Well, they mellow the taste of the liquor

but I want to taste it--I get upset when I feel like there's no booze in my $7 drink!

[Ouabache]

5. You make a good observation, maybe I should have said that

instead of saying the taste is covered up.

[Xipe Totec]

6. A good, stiff Margarita will frost the outside of the glass

Alcohol depresses the melting point of ice. If the glass is sweaty rather than frosted, you got cheated on the liquor.

[arwalden]

7. My Two Favorite Mixed Drinks In All The World!!

:hi:

Good idea... I think I'll go prepare one right now.

[Left Is Write]

9. I love a good margarita!

I have the fixings for margaritas, but I think I'll save that until Sunday afternoon when our friends are coming over.

[Left Is Write]

8. Yes, of course you should taste the liquor.

There shouldn't be so much in it that it overpowers the taste of the mixers, but yes, you should get the flavor of the liquor.

I don't want to drink anything that "covers" the taste of the liquor. If a drink is made with a liquor I don't like, I don't have that drink. Gin springs to mind.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Margarita, yes; bloody mary, no.

A margarita in which you cannot taste the alcohol is a shittily made abomination, probably one of those fucking frozen pieces of shit designed for college girls who are too immature to handle anything that tastes real and prefer something that smacks of sugary wastelands, representing their intellectual acuity and maturity level.

A bloody mary in which you can taste the alcohol has too much alcohol in it, and is also more than likely using a shitty vodka.

[driver8]

11. Good post! I agree with you. I used to tend bar and I have made

thousands of Bloody Marys. I don't mean to brag, but I make a pretty damned good one!! Anyhow, my wife loves Bloody Marys and we were out one night and she ordered one. She takes a drink of it and I thought she was going to die!! She had me taste it and all you could taste was vodka. I told the bartender, "Hey, can you make her another one and this time go easy on the vodka?" He looked at me like I was crazy and I told him, "You aren't supposed to taste the vodka -- that is why my wife likes drinking these." I had him make another one and I kind of "directed" him this time. My wife takes a drink and goes "perfect". The bartender said, "Hey, can I have a taste?" He tastes it and says, "Man, that is good! I'm making all of my Bloody Marys like that!"

Next time we went in, that bartender made my wife a damned good Bloody Mary!!

[WeRQ4U]

12. I agree, with one caveat.

You shouldn't taste the liquor's FLAVOR in either a Bloody Mary or a Ceasar, but you should be able to sense the bite it gives the drink. Otherwise there isn't enough. Fine line. That's my take.

Margarita, fuck yeah you should taste it. If you don't like the taste of it, you've got one of two problems. 1) You don't like tequila or 2) You've made your margarita with poorhouse shit and next time spend the cash for decent grease.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. An essential nuance - thank you for clarifying.

Yes, the alcohol should be sensible as present in the form of the bite: not overly so, but elegantly so.

Any drink that doesn't make the alcohol at least sensible is a fern bar girl-drink abomination, and is not to be tolerated by anyone with self-respect.

[swag]

13. Depends on how many you've had.

[livetohike]

15. Well, I have asked bartenders if they actually put any liquor in

the drink :eyes:. My Dad moonlighted as a bartender for years when I was growing up. He knew how to mix a drink :-).

[LostinVA]

16. In a Margarita, yes -- the unique taste of tequila is important

Especially in a real one, with lime.