Battle of the Alamo Cocktail
This alcoholic homage to Texas history and San Antonio’s great landmark features a cheeky ingredient—gunpowder tea.
The most famous site in Texas history, the Alamo has been interpreted and reinterpreted by every generation of Texans. The former mission in downtown San Antonio confounds visitors who expect a grand building to match the Alamo’s towering mythology. Instead they are confronted with “a squat and oddly configured structure that is in almost every way inscrutable,” wrote writer-at-large Stephen Harrigan, the author of the celebrated novel The Gates of the Alamo.
This alcoholic homage to Texas history and San Antonio’s great landmark features a cheeky ingredient—gunpowder tea.
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Souvenez-vous de l’Alamo. アラモを覚えています. Erinnere mich an die Alamo.
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The most effective weapon of the Texas Revolution, even if it couldn’t save the mission’s defenders.
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Tejanos at the Alamo.
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There should be no mystery about the latest artifact of “history.”
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Viva Max!
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