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Blackberry Sage: Dark fruit, garden herbs, bright fizz.

Blackberry Sage

Dark fruit, garden herbs, bright fizz.

Base
Lemon-Lime
Time
3 minutes
Mood
Herbal, Fruity

Muddled blackberries and a few sage leaves make lemon-lime soda taste like a walk through the garden. Complex, herbal and barely sweet.

Ingredients

  • —Pebble or nugget ice, packed to the rimShop ↗
  • 4Blackberries
  • 3Fresh sage leaves
  • ¾ ozBlackberry syrupShop ↗
  • ½ ozFresh lemon juice
  • 13 ozSpriteShop ↗
  • —Sage leaf and blackberry

Method

  1. 1

    Gently muddle blackberries and sage in the bottom of the glass.

  2. 2

    Add the syrup and lemon juice, then pack with ice.

  3. 3

    Top with soda and stir from the bottom up.

  4. 4

    Garnish with a sage leaf and a blackberry.

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