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Tabasco Sauce

Tabasco sauce is a vinegar-based hot sauce made from aged red chile peppers, delivering sharp heat and tang in just a few drops. It is used purely for spice rather than substantial flavour volume. It is a common finishing touch on savory cocktails.

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Common uses

  • heat seasoning in savory built cocktails

Buying & storage

Months once opened: Keeps for months once opened, but it does change. Nothing urgent; worth finishing within a season.

Storage: keeps well once opened, refrigerate or store in a cool pantry

Recipes

Cocktails containing this ingredient

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Bloody Mary

Vodka, tomato juice and a savoury shake of spice — the definitive brunch cocktail.

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A Bloody Maria in a highball glass garnished with a celery stalk and lime wedge

Bloody Maria

Tequila in place of vodka in a classic Bloody Mary — the same savoury build with an earthier, agave-forward backbone.

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Michelada

Mexican lager built over ice with lime, tomato juice, hot sauce and Worcestershire — savoury, spicy, and endlessly adjustable.

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Alcohol-free

Bloody Shame

Every savoury, spiced layer of a Bloody Mary, built on an alcohol-free spirit instead of vodka.

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Celery Stalk

Garnishes