For those of you  serving cocktails at your July 4th BBQs here are two new recipes featuring 1800 100 Proof Tequila:

1800® It’s Official Margarita
2 oz 1800® Select Silver Tequila
1 oz fresh squeezed lime juice
1 oz Cointreau
.5 oz simple syrup
Pour all ingredients into an ice filled glass. Shake vigorously and pour into a pint glass. Float 1800® Anejo on top. Garnish with a lime.
1800® Bitter Biatch
1.5 oz 1800® Select Silver Tequila
1 oz Orange Juice
.5 oz Angostura Bitters
Pour all ingredients over ice into an ice filled Collins glass. Stir and serve.
And don’t forget about the simple and to the point shots:

Straight shot of 100 proof (the world’s first and only 100 Proof Silver tequila)

180 Shot (1 shot of 80 proof Silver + 1 shot of 100 Proof Select Silver)

The news doesn’t stop coming just because it’s a holiday, so while many of you are spending the day out of work or school, we’re here at the office writing the stuff you’re reading while living it up in your underwear for the next few hours.  So why don’t the 21-and-over readers chill out with an “I’m going to take full advantage of my day off” celebratory drink? Do it for me.

1800 Tequila hit up 9 up-and-coming artists around the country for their “Essential Artists” campaign, intended to make that whole “starving artist” thing less of a reality for the super-talented (and boy, do we artists know that phrase literally).  Each bottle features one of the nine designs and, since only 1,800 bottles were made, notes the production number on the side. It’s the same delicious tequila on the inside, except when I’m finished with it I plan to keep my limited edition bottle (by artist Josh Ellingson, pictured left) on a shelf in my kitchen, college-style.

While this collection gets snatched up, 1800 is currently scouting more artists for their next campaign. Those interested can upload their art to 1800tequila.com. The limited edition bottles are only around until they run out, and since they’re so cheap at $34.99 a bottle, they’re not going to last very long.

Fall’s here, which means it’s high time for apple picking, spiked hot cider, falling leaves, and chilly nights. So why not warm up with a cocktail that tastes like Turkey Day dessert?

So, last week a few friends and I made ourselves a few hot toddies (whiskey and tea) and went apple picking to celebrate autumn. However, we really ended up drunk and with MUCH fewer apples than we’d intended on accumulating, so there wasn’t much we could make with our bounty as we’d originally planned. What to do?

Now, I’m not much for desserts, but I certainly am one for tasty cocktails. So instead of curling up with a drink and a hot slice of caramel-drizzled apple pie, I’d rather follow a good meal with a drink that just tastes like I’d been laboring in the kitchen for hours. Maybe I’ll just put on a flour-dusted apron and pretend I’m toasting to all my hard apple picking and subsequent apple-dessert-baking instead.

CARAMEL APPLE PIE

1 oz 1800 Silver Tequila

1/2 oz. butterscotch schnapps

1 oz apple cider

1 tsp lemon juice

apple slice garnish

• fill cocktail shaker with ice
• add tequila, schnapps, cider, and lemon juice
• shake well and strain into martini glass
• garnish with apple slices