Cocktails with Sugar cane juice
Sugar cane juice is the raw liquid pressed from crushed sugar cane stalks, sweet and unrefined.
How it's used
Unlike sugar or syrup, it sweetens with a green, grassy edge and adds some volume. It sits most naturally with rum, especially rhum agricole, and lime.
Substitutes for Sugar cane juice
Pasteurized or frozen juice
Swaps straight in.
Too thick and sweet on its own. Mix one part with three parts water. The blend matches the fresh juice's sweetness, minus the green grassy note.
One part 2:1 syrup mixed with three parts water gives the right sweetness, though entirely without cane flavor.
Storage
It ferments within hours of pressing, which is why bars that use it press to order. Refrigerated it lasts the day, and a faint fizz means the yeast has already started.
