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Brazil Basil Smash

Frappé · Herbal

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Ingredients

12 fresh Basil leaves
2 oz Cachaça (unaged)
3/4 oz Lemon juice
1/2 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)

How to make

Serve in a old-fashioned glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of basil sprig.

Method

  1. 3 MUDDLE basil in base of shaker.
  2. 4 Add other ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
  3. 5 FINE STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.

Garnish

  1. 6 Garnish with basil sprig bouquet.

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History

Basil flavours combine brilliantly with cachaça's funky notes in this frappé, a riff on the contemporary classic Gin Basil Smash.

This drink was adapted from a recipe created in 2011 by Joerg Meyer at his Le Lion Bar de Paris in Hamburg, Germany. Joerg Meyer created this cocktail as a tribute to Brazil's famous Caipirinha cocktail for a bar show in Rotterdam, where he says, "I did a fun talk, playing John Garuku was my Head Bartender on Stage. :)"

Created by Joerg Meyer