Blueberry Caipirinha

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Serve in a Highball (max 10oz/300ml)

Ingredients:
12 fresh Lime (fresh) chopped
3 barspoon Caster/ Superfine/Baker's special sugar (white)
10 fresh Blueberries (fresh)
2 oz Cachaça from freezer
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Highball (max 10oz/300ml) glass.
  2. Cut lime in half (from pole to pole) and then slice one of the halves into eight 3-4mm thick half-moon shaped segments and drop into the base of a robust rocks glass.
  3. Add 3 bar spoons caster sugar (or ½oz / 15ml sugar syrup 2:1) and MUDDLE.
  4. Add blueberries and MUDDLE some more.
  5. When sure fruit juice is fully extracted and the sugar dissolved, transfer the muddled fruit and sugar into serving glass (preferably a 30cl / 10oz highball glass).
  6. POUR cachaça (stored in the freezer) into the rocks glass (used to muddle) and swirl to rinse glass before pouring cachaça into serving glass. STIR to combine all ingredients.
  7. Fill glass with ice. (If using large ice cubes, crack (rather than crush) four to five large ice cubes using an ICE TAPPER and drop into serving glass.)
  8. STIR before topping with more ice and serve with a stirrer (but no straws).
  9. Garnish with a stirrer (spoon, wooden lolly stick or stick cut from sugar cane).

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 5/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 4/10
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History:

For information on the history and other variations of the Caipirinha, please see our Caipirinha cocktail page.

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eddie richards’ Avatar eddie richards
12th January at 00:39
I had a handful of leftover blueberries and this Blueberry Caipirinha recipe caught my eye. It looked like a bit of a hassle though, and my bar area was a chilly 12 degrees—so I took a few shortcuts, and it tasted delicious. Here’s what I did: muddle 10 blueberries in a cobbler tin, add 60 ml of cachaça, 15 ml of lime super juice, and 15 ml of rich sugar syrup. Give it a 10-second shake with ice, then fine-strain into a footed rocks glass.