


#PINEAPPLE MARGARITA FULL#
Fill a cocktail shaker 1/2-way with ice and fill 2/3 full with the margarita mixture. Similarly, choose your tequila with care. Combine the lime juice, tequila, Triple Sec, and pineapple juice. Buy the best pineapple juice you can comfortably afford and freshly juice your limes. Ingredients for Pineapple Margaritas MatterĪs with many cocktails, the type and caliber of your juice will have an enormous effect on the outcome of your drink. Sweetness and perceptions of sweetness affect how we taste sourness, however, and pineapples, especially packaged pineapple juices, will have considerably more sugar than freshly juiced limes. For instance, Wine Enthusiast’s classic margarita recipe includes 1 ounce lime juice, and this margarita with pineapple juice has 1 ounce lime juice plus 2 ounces pineapple. “Typical sour cocktails will require ¾ ounce of lemon or lime juice to tart them up,” writes Dave Arnold in Liquid Intelligence. Featuring our real tequila, triple sec, and pineapple juice, this margarita is tart and tropical with notes of ripe fruit u0003to balance the bold agave. Fresh pineapples can have 3.2–4 pH, while whole limes have 2–2.85 pH. On the pH scale, anything below seven is classified as acidic. Pineapples are better suited to the margarita rubric than some other fruits because, like limes, they’re highly acidic. Fill glass with ice and strain the drink from the cocktail shaker into the glass. Add ice, lime juice, pineapple juice, and tequila and shake until outside of cocktail shaker is frosted. Using a muddler, muddler the fruits together. It combines the lime juice from a classic margarita with pineapple juice, and then adjusts the amounts of orange liqueur and tequila to keep sweetness, bitterness and boozy bite in check. In a cocktail shaker, add pineapple chunks and lime wedge. Some fruity margaritas are cloying, but this pineapple margarita recipe is bright and balanced.
