Happy Hour: Blue Margarita

Blue Margarita

Ingredients:
- 2 oz Tequila
- 1 oz Blue Curacao
- 1 oz Triple Sec
- 1 oz Lime Juice
- Salt
- Garnish: Lime Wedge
- Glassware: Margarita Glass

Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a margarita glass rimmed with salt (optional). Garnish with lime wedge.

Quick Tip! There are more than one orange flavored liqueurs besides triple sec. Cointreau is a brandy-based liqueur with bitter orange flavor initially produced by the Cointreau brothers in 1849. Back then it was called "triple sec white curacao." Grand Marnier is a Caribbean orange falvored cognac liqueur produced in France. Blue curacao is a rum-based liqueur with a peel of bitter orange flavor initially produced by the Dutch. Curacao is known for the wide orange of colors. By using blue curacao in margarita makes a blue margarita. {Source: Cocktail Times}