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Fresh ingredients and finishing

Handle herbs and whole lime. Distinguish finishing liquid from garnish.

What you will be able to do

Handle herbs and whole lime.

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Distinguish finishing liquid from garnish.

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Extract without guessing

Press Mojito mint gently and follow the Gin Basil Smash method for basil. Whole-lime Caipirinha combines lime extraction with sugar dissolution; fruit size and preparation change yield.

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A whole lime has no fixed measured juice volume in this record, so a complete percentage composition is withheld.

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Control the finish

Bramble reserves its measured blackberry liqueur for the finish over crushed ice. A garnish is not a substitute for measured citrus or liqueur.

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Use clean tools and tongs. The coloured diagram bands identify measured amounts; they do not mean every drink forms stable layers.

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Mojito

Mint rum highball. Fresh mint, lime, rum and gentle sweetness, lengthened with soda.

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Recipe: 45 ml white Cuban-style rum · 20 ml fresh lime juice · 6 small sprigs fresh mint; washed and sound · 2 level teaspoons white cane sugar · 60 ml total chilled soda water, measured house quantity

Measured starting liquids (before ice dilution, not ABV): white Cuban-style rum 36%, fresh lime juice 16%, chilled soda water, measured house quantity 48% of 125 ml.

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AI-generated illustration of a Mojito. Follow the written recipe, not the picture.

Caipirinha

Muddled lime drink. Fresh lime, sugar and cachaça character.

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Recipe: 60 ml cachaça · 1 whole lime cut into small wedges · 4 level teaspoons white cane sugar

Proportions: a complete percentage split is not shown because one ingredient (such as freshly pressed lime) has no fixed measured yield.

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AI-generated illustration of a Caipirinha. Follow the written recipe, not the picture.

Bramble

Liqueur-finished sour. Gin and lemon with a blackberry finish.

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Recipe: 50 ml gin · 25 ml fresh lemon juice · 12.5 ml simple syrup, 1:1 by mass · 15 ml crème de mûre blackberry liqueur

Measured starting liquids (before ice dilution, not ABV): gin 48.7805%, fresh lemon juice 24.3902%, simple syrup, 1:1 by mass 12.1951%, crème de mûre blackberry liqueur 14.6341% of 102.5 ml.

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AI-generated illustration of a Bramble. Follow the written recipe, not the picture.

Gin Basil Smash

Herbal sour. Fresh basil, gin botanicals and lemon.

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Recipe: 60 ml gin · 22.5 ml fresh lemon juice · 22.5 ml simple syrup, 1:1 by mass · 10 leaves fresh Italian basil

Measured starting liquids (before ice dilution, not ABV): gin 57.1429%, fresh lemon juice 21.4286%, simple syrup, 1:1 by mass 21.4286% of 105 ml.

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AI-generated illustration of a Gin Basil Smash. Follow the written recipe, not the picture.

Practise and check yourself

Exercise: Write the herb and fruit handling differences, then rehearse the Bramble finishing sequence.

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Why is Caipirinha’s full volume percentage unavailable? The whole-lime juice extraction has not been measured.

Is Bramble’s finishing liqueur just decorative garnish? No. It is a measured recipe ingredient.

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Quick Shift Check

A Mojito contains many shredded mint fragments and tastes harsh. What correction should be trialled?

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