Blackberry Agave Caipirinha

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

Prepare

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

Method

1. 3 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. 4 Add agave syrup and MUDDLE.
3. 5 Add blackberries and MUDDLE some more.
4. 6 When sure the lime and blackberry juice is fully extracted, POUR the muddled fruit into serving glass (preferably a 30cl / 10oz highball glass).
5. 7 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. 8 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. 9 Briefly STIR before topping with more ice.

Garnish

1. 10 Serve with a stirrer (spoon, wooden lolly stick or stick cut from sugar cane) but no straws.