Tequila, Corona and Lime – Tha…

Tequila, Corona and Lime – That’s the Baja Fog!

It all started back in the spring of ’74 when I and a couple surf buddies headed to the Baja peninsula in search of waves and adventure. Like any red blooded American college student going on surf safari in Mexico, we felt the need to stock up on beer and tequila. Back then beer was $5 American/case and tequila about eight bucks a bottle.

I couldn’t stand tequila and wasn’t much of a drinker back then. I’ll bet my two friends were the same, but none of us would let on. Had to keep up appearances I suppose. One night, as the cocktail hour loomed, I was dreading having to take swigs out of the tequila bottle as it was passed around. As I sat there pondering the situation, an idea came to me. Wouldn’t tequila float on beer? If I slowly pour tequila into the airspace in the neck of the Corona bottle, wouldn’t it fill simply float on top? I tried it and it did! So far so good. At least I could get the tequila taste out of my mouth faster with the tequila shooter / beer chaser technique I was considering. And then, as if a message from God, another thought popped into my head; this one amazing! What would happen if I put a squeeze of lime in there. I tried it and EUREKA, a colloidal suspension occurred. A tequila lime shooter with instant beer chaser. I guzzled down the experiment and was shocked at just how delicious and refreshing it was. Better still, the amount of tequila was now measured and less than an ounce. From this point forward I would no longer be subjected to getting plastered before dinner.

Fast forward ten years. I’m down Baja way again, this time in Bahia de Los Angeles. Jan Baby (the wife) and I had transitioned to windsurfing and were getting in some winter training on the flat water of the bay. As the cocktail hour approached, which we now referred to as “fog thirty”, we had a couple Coronas out on the counter in our VW Vanagon. As I carefully poured in the tequila, we noticed a young woman near the waters edge. She noticed us, gave a cheery wave and walked over to say hi. When she got near she said; “Your making Baja Fogs!”. My jaw dropped and I asked; “How do you know about the Baja Fog?” She explained that a couple years earlier she met a guy at this same beach who shared the recipe with her.

The miracle of the Fog had come full circle. When I googled it I was amazed to find how many people and places were making the Baja Fog.

Make yourself a fog and report back. I think you may be surprised.