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Guaraná com LaranjaGuaraná Orange Mocktail

The Non-Alcoholic Party Cup: Guaraná Soda and Orange.

Guaraná com Laranja (Guaraná Orange Mocktail) — The Non-Alcoholic Party Cup: Guaraná Soda and Orange
Guaraná com Laranja (Guaraná Orange Mocktail) — The Non-Alcoholic Party Cup: Guaraná Soda and Orange

This is the designated-driver's caipirinha: guaraná — the Amazon berry soda Brazil runs on — cut with fresh orange at every birthday table where someone is not drinking. Simple enough that the recipe is almost embarrassing, and exactly right for it.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Juice the orangesSqueeze the orange juice fresh and chill it — bottled juice makes this taste like a shelf.
  2. BuildFill tall glasses with ice and lime slices. Pour the orange juice to fill a third of each glass.
  3. Top and stir onceTop slowly with guaraná — it fizzes aggressively — and stir once, gently, to marry without flattening. Garnish with mint.

Questions

How long does Guaraná com Laranja take?

about 5 minutes of prep — yielding 4 glasses.

What is guaraná?

A climbing Amazonian berry whose seeds carry about twice the caffeine of coffee — and the soda Brazil produces more of than cola. Berry-sweet, lightly floral, very fizzy.

Can I make it a cocktail?

A splash of cachaça turns it into a guaraninha — but the classic non-alcoholic version is the point: the birthday-table caipirinha abstainer's drink.