The perfect Bloody Mary
My second bartending job at the wee age of 22 was right after college at a public golf course in San Dimas. While I was often behind the bar in the club house, I was mostly driving around in a bulky gas-powered golf cart filled with booze,…
Celebrate National Tequila Day with a margarita
Now this is a holiday we can enjoy! If only it came with a day off so we can nurse our hangovers the next day. But with a good tequila label, you'll be much better off! We've shared a few of our favorite margarita recipes with you already,…
Recipe: Blood orange + Pear puree Margaritas
This is definitely my favorite margarita recipe ever! An experiment from my old bartending days, this was on our menu for a long time and sold quite a bit. There's something about how the pear puree cuts right through the acidity of all…
Beer Buzz Friday: Prickly Pear Coronitas
There's a trend on the internet recipes as of late having to do with mixing beer with our precious tequila. Beer margaritas, beer lemonade, Coronitas - these recipes are popping up and even showing up on bar menus. So of course - we had…
How to juice a prickly pear
Prickly pears actually grow pretty abundantly around Southern California. But since we don't exactly want to get caught picking some stranger's prickly pears behind their gate, we get ours for super cheap at the local Asian market - A Grocery…
Recipe: The perfect cheater margarita
Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo, our first official holiday celebrated here on Girls Who Like Beer. And what better way to celebrate any holiday than with a perfect "cheater" margarita?
The keyword is, of course, "cheater." A perfect, perfect…
Holy Bloody Mary
A couple of weekends ago, we left the comforts of Los Angeles county for a little excursion to the beaches of the OC. Of the four bars we visited that day (yep, four) the first was to meet up with our good friend Tanya at the new Rock'n Fish…