Tabasco is getting classy

Let hilarity ensue as we watch our favorite news team reclaim their legendary status with Tabasco cocktails like The Burgundy, It’s So Damn Hot, You Know I Don’t Speak Spanish, and Brick’s Hand Grenade.

Below are four recipes.

The Burgundy
Serves 6

1 Quart tomato juice
1 Cup vodka
1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 Tablespoon fresh lime juice
1/2 Teaspoon Tabasco brand Original Red Sauce
Lime slices or celery stalks

Combine tomato juice, vodka, Worcestershire sauce, lime juice, and Tabasco Sauce in a 2-quart pitcher; stir well. Serve over ice. Garnish with lime or celery.

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It’s So Damn Hot
Serves 1

2 Ounces quality vodka or gin
7 Ounces tomato juice
1/2 Ounce Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce
1 Heaping teaspoon horseradish mustard
10-20 dashes Tabasco brand Original Red Sauce
1/2 Teaspoon sea salt
1/8 Teaspoon white pepper
1/8 Teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 Teaspoon smoked paprika
1/4 Teaspoon garlic powder
1 Pinch of cumin
1/2 Lemon, juiced
1/2 Lime, juiced
1 Chicory leaf
1 Cornichon
2 Tabasco brand Spicy Beans

Spicy Seasoned Garlic Sea Salt
6 Dashes Tabasco brand Original Red Sauce
1/8 Cup sea salt
1/2 Tablespoon toasted garlic

Combine all Spicy Seasoned Garlic Sea Salt ingredients and mix well. Fill a pint glass with ice and rim with Spicy Seasoned Garlic Sea Salt. Combine all ingredients into mixing glass. “Roll” ingredients back and forth from mixing glass to shaker several times; mix well. Pour into ice-filled, salt-rimmed pint glass. Garnish with chicory leaf, a cornichon and Tabasco Spicy Beans.

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You Know I Don’t Speak Spanish
Serves 1

1/2 Lime
Coarse salt
1 1/4 Ounces gold tequila
3/4 Ounce Grand Marnier
1/2 to 1 Teaspoon Tabasco brand Green Jalapeño Pepper Sauce

Rub rim of a goblet with cut side of lime, then dip rim into saucer of salt. Fill glass with ice. Squeeze juice from lime. Pour lime juice, tequila, Grand Marnier, and Tabasco Green Sauce into an ice-filled cocktail shaker or pitcher and shake or stir vigorously. Strain into ice-filled glass and garnish with a slice of lime.

Variation: Use Margarita or sweet and sour mix to make drink as directed on label. Shake in 1/2 to 1 teaspoon Tabasco Green Sauce per drink and stir.

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Brick’s Hand Grenade
Serves 1

2 Tablespoons pineapple juice
2 Tablespoons lemon-lime carbonated beverage
1 Tablespoon light rum
1 Tablespoon tequila
1 Tablespoon vodka
1 Tablespoon gin
3 Drops Tabasco brand Original Red Sauce

Combine all ingredients and pour into a 12-ounce highball glass filled with ice; stir. If desired, garnish glass with a wedge of pineapple or lime.