The Desperado, a Tepache Cocktail is available year-round at DWTNR — the super hip cocktail bar and restaurant in the ARRIVE Albuquerque Hotel — but let’s be honest, summer is the season for a drink where rum and passionfruit have a hot and heavy romance in a glass. Sure, you can make this cocktail at home, but better yet, do like we do and grab a seat by the pool and sip your summer away. And the name DWTNR? It’s a nod to the hotel’s original moniker: The Downtowner.

What is Tepache?

Tepache is a beverage that is made from fermented and then sweetened pineapple. It’s probiotic, fizzy, and tangy — just the thing for summertime sipping.

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Desperado, A Tepache Cocktail

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• Author: Justin Bellshaw

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Description

A fizzy and tangy cocktail with a rum base.

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Ingredients

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• 2 oz rum
• 2 1/2 oz tepache
• 1 oz passionfruit liqueur
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 1/2 oz agave

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Instructions

1. Add all ingredients except tepache into shaking tin. Add small amount of ice. Shake, strain over crushed ice.
2. Top with tepache.
3. Garnish with two pineapple fronds and a dehydrated pineapple.

Recipe by Justin Bellshaw, DWTNR
Story by Julia Platt Leonard
Styling by Keith Recker
Photography by Dave Bryce

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