No. 15Pickle Beers & Beer Cocktails
Dill Pickle Beerita
A pickle margarita crowned with cold lager. Dill salt all around.
The Dill Pickle Beerita is a pickle margarita topped with Mexican lager: blanco tequila, lime, orange liqueur and dill pickle brine shaken and poured over ice in a dill-salt rimmed glass, then finished with beer. It is stronger than the other beer drinks, with margarita tang, a fizzy top and a savory dill finish.
21+Updated
Brine3/53 of 5
HeatNonenone
StrengthMedium
- Glass
- pint glass
- Method
- Shaken
- Time
- 4 min
- Makes
- 1 drink
Ingredients
Make it for
Units
Amounts for 1, in ounces.
- 1½ oz blanco tequila
- ¾ oz fresh lime juice
- ½ oz orange liqueur (triple sec or Cointreau)
- ¾ oz dill pickle brine (chilled)
- ¼ oz agave syrup optional
- 4 oz Mexican lager (ice cold)
- 1 tbsp dill salt (kosher salt mixed with dried dill, for the rim)
- 1 lime wedge (for the rim)
- 1 slice lime (a wheel, for garnish)
- 1 dill pickle spear (for garnish)
- Glass
- pint glass
- Rim
- dill salt
- Garnish
- lime wheel and pickle spear
How to make it
- Wet the rim of a pint glass with the lime wedge.
- Dip the rim in dill salt.
- Fill the glass with ice.
- Shake the tequila, lime juice, orange liqueur, brine and agave with ice for 10 seconds.
- Strain into the glass.
- Top with the Mexican lager.
- Garnish with a lime wheel and a pickle spear.
Bar tips
- Shake the margarita part only; never shake the beer.
- Make dill salt by mixing 2 parts kosher salt with 1 part dried dill.
- The beer dilutes the drink, so keep the agave if your lager is very dry.
Make it your own
- Pitcher for four: stir 6 oz tequila, 3 oz lime, 2 oz orange liqueur, 3 oz brine and 1 oz agave with ice, then top with 16 oz of lager just before serving.
Drink responsibly. This one is for adults of legal drinking age. Want it without the booze? The zero-proof drinks are just as briny.
Full recipe: dillin.org/recipes/dill-pickle-beerita
