Blackberry Agave Caipirinha

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (11 ratings)

Glass:

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

Ingredients:
12 fresh Lime (fresh) chopped
6 fresh Blackberries
1 oz Agave syrup
2 oz Cachaça from freezer
× 1 1 serving
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Prepare:

  1. Select and pre-chill a HIGHBALL (MAX 10OZ/300ML) GLASS.
  2. Prepare garnish of stirrer (spoon, wooden lolly stick or stick cut from sugar cane).

How to make:

  1. Cut a ripe lime in half (from pole to pole) and remove the core from each half by cutting a V-shaped groove. (You'll need one-half of the lime per cocktail.) CHOP into wedges and each wedge chopped in half before dropping the resulting 6 or 8 lime chunks into the base of shaker.
  2. Add agave syrup and MUDDLE.
  3. Add blackberries and MUDDLE some more.
  4. When sure the lime and blackberry juice is fully extracted, POUR the muddled fruit into serving glass (preferably a 30cl / 10oz highball glass).
  5. POUR cachaça (stored in the freezer) into the shaker tin used to muddle and swirl to rinse tin before pouring cachaça into serving glass. STIR to combine with other ingredients.
  6. FILL glass with small cubes or cracked 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.)
  7. Briefly STIR before topping with more ice.

Garnish:

  1. Serve with a stirrer (spoon, wooden lolly stick or stick cut from sugar cane) but no straws.

Strength & taste guide:

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

Review:

Sweetening with agave nectar rather than sugar helps set this fruity Caipirinha apart and creates a drink that is very slightly sweet.

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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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JeffAlex’s Avatar JeffAlex
6th December at 17:08
It also seems safe to assume that one should muddle the limes at the end of step 3, then add the blackberries and muddle again…?
Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
7th December at 10:32
I've rewritten the method; hopefully this time not omitting any steps.
Simon Luck’s Avatar Simon Luck
3rd August at 17:03
In the recipe you talk about sugar, in the ingredient list sugar is missing...
Is there a step/ingredient missing?
Simon Luck’s Avatar Simon Luck
3rd August at 17:09
Also, the review says: no sugar.