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Chilcano Recipe

Chilcano

Pisco with ginger ale, lime and bitters — the everyday Peruvian drink that the Pisco Sour overshadows abroad.

Ingredients

How to Make It

  1. Fill a highball glass with ice.
  2. Add the pisco, lime juice and bitters.
  3. Top with ginger ale and stir once.
  4. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Garnish

Lime wheel

The Story

Peru holds a Semana del Chilcano every January, which tells you which of the two drinks locals actually order.

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