Corona Sunrise Shot

The beach party beer upgrade: Corona meets tequila and orange juice with a grenadine sunrise. Beautiful, boozy, and basically mandatory at any poolside gathering.

The Tequila Sunrise — tequila, orange juice, and grenadine — has roots in a 1930s Arizona recipe but its modern globally recognized form was created in 1972 by young Sausalito bartenders Bobby Lozoff and Billy Rice at the Trident restaurant. The Rolling Stones were among its early celebrity fans during the 1972 Exile on Main St. tour, helping catapult the drink to international prominence. The vivid gradient from orange to red at the base — achieved by slowly pouring grenadine so it sinks — made the Tequila Sunrise one of the most photographed cocktails of the 1970s. The Corona Sunrise Shot adapts this concept to shooter format using tequila, orange juice, and grenadine, sometimes incorporating a splash of Mexican lager for additional depth. It emerged from Mexican beach bar culture in the 1990s, where combining tequila shots with the visual drama of the sunrise became a popular tourist-friendly staple.