Is Doritos-Flavored Booze Good Or Gross?

My homemade Dorito-rita. Made with, and apologies to, Lagrimas del Valle Tequila. (Photo by me)

I try not to write about bad booze, not because I only want to write glowing reviews — it’s actually easier and quite often more fun to trash something in print than to praise it. But I just don’t want to waste my time and my precious liver capacity drinking crap, and then having to find something to say about it, when there’s so much good stuff out there. So I don’t really know why I called dibs on writing up Empirical’s collaboration with PepsiCo/FritoLay on a Doritos-flavored spirit. I guess I was caught up in the moment, or maybe I fell prey to the hype. Or perhaps both.

Anyway, I gave it a fair shake, as you’ll read in my article for the fine people at Alcohol Professor. Was it good? Did it remind my wife of wet socks? Did I reminisce in print about an ex-girlfriend’s feet? Did I mention Taylor Swift not once but twice (I think it’s in the contract that she must be mentioned in every single article at this point)? You’ll just have to read my writeup to find out. Link is -> HERE <-.