Since tequila has alcohol, it isn't going to freeze. Depending on how cold the freezer is there may be potential for damage to tissues in your mouth.
Perhaps this is or isn't true, but you might want to do some research before trying it. I did some casual Googling and found a lot of people freezing booze and drinking so perhaps typical freezer temperatures are Okay. One worrisome hit was this however :. Conduction is the transfer of heat to objects or substances in direct contact.
Your tongue sticking to the flagpole in grade school is a perfect example of how tissue can almost instantly freeze when in contact with cold metal, an excellent heat conductor. Extremely cold alcohol can instantly freeze and damage your lips, tongue or other mouth tissue. And if the alcohol comes in contact with your throat or esophagus, that can turn out to be deadly. Freezing actual good tequila is worse than just setting your money on fire because it does the tequila a disservice.
I know people who freeze tequilas, rums, and vodkas. The thing is, at room temperatures these drinks will have more taste and perfume. If you put them in the freezer, they loses that flavor and become more acidic. For example, rum and whiskey are miserable in the fridge. But for tequila it's OK if you will have it in shots as it is more intense, and vodka is OK because it is pure alcohol. Yeah, tequila in the freezer is fine, and so is vodka, genever etc.
Pour it in a shot glass, enjoy the syrupy texture and the foggy glass, have a small sip You probably can't taste much either due to frozen taste buds, but's it's a cool conversation starter and it saves on ice cubes.
Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? And sadly Cointreau will be absent in far too many of those drinks as lazy bartenders throw together tequila and some gussied up sour mix. Stay tuned for a post dedicated to the margarita in the near future. Rather, it is at the top of its class and is an amazingly versatile ingredient for both classic and modern cocktails.
All the others are proprietary brands. Cointreau is also a person. Adolphe Cointreau is long dead, but he and his brother set up the distillery in France. It was the next generation of Cointreaus, also long dead, that eventually came up with formulation of sweet and bitter orange peels that we enjoy today.
But how does it taste? Well, for that we head over to my spirit guide F. Paul Pacult who has this to say in his amazingly lurid work, Kindred Spirits :. No home liquor cabinet should be without at least a small bottle of this liqueur. Since it is typically used by the spoonful, a ml bottle will last a long long time. I just tested two bottles back to back.
One bottle was just opened this evening for the occasion. The second bottle, well, that has been around for a while. What was striking about this Pepsi Challenge was that the older bottle actually had a much more pronounced orange aroma and flavor out of the gate.
However, after allowing the new bottle several minutes of aeration , it began to match the aromatic intensity of its elder cousin. The exact freezing point of any beer, liquor, or wine is dependent on its alcohol by volume ABV, or proof :.
Note: These freezing points are not exact, particularly with the beer and wine. A small variation in the alcohol content will not make a big difference, but if it's close, the chances of freezing are high.
Use the temperatures as a general guideline, and don't push the limits. The temperature of the average home freezer that's attached to a refrigerator is zero degrees Fahrenheit degrees Celsius. This is cold enough to freeze your food and ice but not cold enough to freeze the average bottle of proof liquor.
A chest freezer can become much colder: There is a chance that proof liquor will freeze, though proof liquor will likely not. Whiskeys and other barrel-aged spirits are rarely stored cold because the volatiles that give them complex flavors are most noticeable at warmer temperatures.
Vodka, on the other hand, is a very clean spirit and has fewer volatiles, so it can actually taste better when very cold. Experts say that the optimum temperature for premium vodka is around 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Going lower than that with cheaper vodkas can produce a smoother drink and reduce some of the burn. Beer and wine have significantly less alcohol than liquors, and they will freeze.
Placing a warm beer or white wine in the freezer for a quick chill can bring it down to drinking temperature quickly. Just don't forget it in there! While the entire contents of the bottle will not freeze right away, the water will. This creates a slush out of your beverage and can ruin the flavor. Frozen wine , for instance, may be best reserved for cooking rather than drinking. When left in the freezer too long, corks and caps may bulge or burst, the glass could crack, and aluminum cans will explode.
This creates a nasty mess that will require deep cleaning your freezer. Make sure you know what you're doing before you serve a margarita this Cinco de Mayo. Insider spoke with Alfred Cointreau, a sixth-generation member of the family-run orange-flavored triple-sec liqueur brand, to find out the mistakes that might be ruining your margarita.
First of all, he said, stop using a cheap orange liqueur, margarita mixes, and bottled lime juice. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Sign up for Sidekick to get the best recs for smarter living. Loading Something is loading.
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