You learned about different ingredients to replace coca leaves in a Pisco Punch. What would you do to make your signature Pisco Punch unique?

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Discussion

[Patsy Blas]

Of course when in Peru I’ll try to use coca leaves as much as I can because I’d like to take advantage of this ancestral plant. But in the US, I’ll replace it by mint, it’s just a very delicious and refresher herb. Plus it matches so good with pineapple. Also instead of pineapple I can do a strawberry sirop plus mint leaves or coca leaves. So yum!

[John Douglass]

I muddle a couple chunks of pineapple and use a 1:1 simple syrup instead of a gomme to lighten and dry out the cocktail.