Name: Cherry Mojito
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 14 fresh Mint leaves; 40 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 20 ml Cherry brandy; 15 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 15 ml Soda (club soda) water

Cherry Mojito
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
14 fresh	Mint leaves
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
²⁄₃ oz	Heering Cherry Liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₂ oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of mint sprigs bouquet.

How to make:

Lightly MUDDLE mint (just to bruise) in base of glass.
ADD first 4 ingredients to glass and two-thirds fill with crushed ice.
CHURN (stir) with bar spoon.
Fill glass with more crushed ice and briefly CHURN.
TOP with soda.

Garnish:

Garnish with mint sprigs bouquet.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A Mojito with a touch of cherry. Beware, this is no cherry bomb and those looking for something fruitier and sweeter should add 2.5 to 5ml (½ to 1 barspoon) sugar syrup.

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History:

One of many cherry riffs on the classic Mojito. This one by yours truly in December 2021.

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Leslie

26th July at 20:34

PS: thanks for the hint about the sugar syrup in the Mojito article, I love my drinks on the tart side but this one needed the 1/4oz to allow you to taste the cherry, just as you said. I can personally attest to the lovely difference it makes! 😉

Leslie

26th July at 20:27

This was adorable but confess I switched out the Cherry Heering for MacGuinness Cherry “Brandy” because Cherry Heering makes me think of and taste cough medicine. Perfect application for the pretend stuff, lovely on a sweltering tropical afternoon (even though we are many latitudes north of the tropics)!

Chris Dimal

29th January 2024 at 19:19

Heretical, but I like this better than a Mojito. I just find that the lightly muddling, then churning works better than just either separately. Suits a lukewarm winter (which is common in many parts of Asia), or a Christmas in the southern hemisphere.