Tapatio Hot Sauce

Tapatío is a hot sauce, produced in Vernon, California. It is popular across the United States. “Tapatío” is the name given to people from Guadalajara, Jalisco: the company’s founders come from Guadalajara. It is exported to Mexico, Canada, Central America, Australia, and elsewhere. It’s also one of my favorite “hot” sauces since it’s not to hot and hot me started into loving the flavor of all kinds of different hot sauces.

Tapatio Hot Sauce entered the business world in 1971, when Mr. Jose-Luis Saavedra, Sr. started his company. As with most great products, Tapatio’s beginnings were very modest. Still working a daytime job to supplement his income in order to cover business expenses, Mr. Saavedra leased a 750 square foot building located in the city of Maywood, CA. 

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Make a Tapatio MICHELADA

A Michelada is a cerveza preparada made with beer, lime juice, assorted sauces, spices, tomato juice, and chile peppers. It is served in a chilled, salt-rimmed glass. There are numerous variations of this beverage throughout Mexico and Latin America.

Ingredients:
1 teaspoon kosher salt 
1/2 teaspoon pure chile powder
1 lime, halved
Dash of Tapatio Hot Sauce
1 (12-ounce) chilled beer (preferably Mexican and dark) 

Directions:
Stir together kosher salt and chili powder on a plate. Run a lime half around edge of a pint glass, then turn glass over onto plate and rotate to attach salt mixture.

Add lime juice and Tapatio Hot Sauce to glass, then top with beer. 

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Tapatio Ingredients:

• Water
• Red Peppers
• Salt
• Spices
• Garlic
• Acetic Acid
• Xanthan Gum
• Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative