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Dark Caipirinha

A caipirinha made with demerara sugar, which takes it molasses-dark and rounds off the lime.

GlassRocks glass
GarnishNone
5ozRocks / Old-Fashioned holds 5 oz of liquidShort glass built over ice. Half its volume is ice, so liquid stays low.

Build

Demerara sugar2 tsp10 ml
Lime1, in wedges
Cachaça2½ oz75 ml1 oz30 ml1 ½ oz45 ml2 oz60 ml3 oz90 ml

Rescaled to your 1 oz30 ml pour. Written around 2½ oz75 ml.

Rescaled to your 1 ½ oz45 ml pour. Written around 2½ oz75 ml.

Rescaled to your 2 oz60 ml pour. Written around 2½ oz75 ml.

Already built on your 2 ½ oz75 ml pour.

Rescaled to your 3 oz90 ml pour. Written around 2½ oz75 ml.

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Method

  1. Muddle the lime wedges with the demerara sugar in the bottom of a rocks glass.
  2. Fill with crushed ice and add the cachaça.
  3. Stir from the bottom up.

Recipe data: TheCocktailDB (opens in a new tab)

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