Recipes: Toast Tonight’s ACM Awards With These Signature Cocktails!

Tuning in to tonight’s ACM Awards? Get out your cowgirl boots and mix up some country-styled cocktails to kick off your viewing party! Sauza Tequila’s Southern Sweet Tea-quila, My Kinda Margarita and How We Roll-rita are just what your guests need to dig into their country roots. Check out the recipes below!

Southern Sweet Tea-quila

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ parts Sauza Blue Reposado 100% Agave Tequila

• 2 black tea bags

• 1 cup water

• 1 tbsp. sugar

• Sprigs of fresh mint for garnish

Directions:

• In a medium saucepan bring water, tea bags and sugar to a rolling boil

• Stir until sugar dissolves

• Remove from heat and let sit for 15 minutes

• Remove tea bags and allow tea to chill in refrigerator

• When the tea is cool, add the Tequila

• Pour over ice and garnish with a sprig of mint

My Kinda Margarita

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ parts Sauza Blue Silver 100% Agave Tequila

• ¼ parts frozen limeade

• 2 ½ parts pineapple juice

• 1-3 dashes Tabasco Chipotle Hot Sauce

• Chipotle peppers for garnish

Directions:

• Combine all ingredients in a glass filled with ice

• Serve on the rocks and garnish with a chipotle pepper

How We Roll-rita

Ingredients:

• 2 parts Sauza Blue Silver 100% Agave Tequila

• ½ parts fresh lemon juice

• ¼ parts agave nectar

• ¼ parts ginger syrup

• 1 tsp. puréed canned chipotle in adobe

• ½ lime, quartered lengthwise

• 1 strip red bell pepper for garnish

• 1 small piece beef jerky for garnish

Directions:

• In a cocktail shaker, combine lemon juice, agave nectar, ginger syrup, chipotle purée, and lime wedges

• Then add 1 small cup of cubed ice and pour in Tequila; stir

• Pour into a cocktail glass and garnish with bell pepper and beef jerky