Watermelon 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 3 bar spoons caster sugar (or ½oz / 15ml sugar syrup 2:1) and MUDDLE.
3. 5 Add watermelon and MUDDLE some more.
4. 6 When sure fruit juice is fully extracted and the sugar dissolved, TRANSFER the muddled fruit and sugar into serving glass (preferably a 30cl / 10oz hi-ball glass).
5. 7 POUR cachaça (stored in the freezer) into the rocks glass (used to muddle) and swirl to rinse glass before pouring cachaça into serving glass.
6. 8 STIR to ensure all ingredients are well mixed.
7. 9 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. 10 Briefly STIR before topping with more ice.

Garnish

1. 11 Garnish with stirrer (but no straws).