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Batanga

Aperitivo/aperitif · Elevenses/afternoon · Hall of Fame and must know/try

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Ingredients

1 pinch Salt
5/12 oz Lime juice
2 oz Blanco tequila
3 1/2 oz Cola

How to make

Serve in a collins glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
  2. 2 RIM glass with salt (moisten outside edge with lime juice and dip into salt).

Method

  1. 3 STIR salt with lime juice in base of glass to dissolve salt.
  2. 4 Add ice and other ingredients and briefly stir.

Garnish

  1. 5 No additional garnish. (The preprepared rim is garnish enough.)

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History

Essentially a Cuba Libre, this uses tequila instead of rum, with a crucial pinch of salt.

This cocktail was created in 1961 by Don Javier Delgado Corona, the owner and bartender of La Capilla (The Chapel) in Tequila, Mexico. Don Javier famously stirred this drink with the knife he used for cutting limes, a practice he continued into his eighties. The Batanga is a popular drink in Mexico, partly due to an advertising campaign by El Tequileño, a tequila brand produced near Don Javier's bar.

Also known as Charro Negro · Created by Don Javier Delgado Corona