Brazil's national drinks
Brazil's national drinks
Caipirinha
Caipirinha is Brazil's national cocktail, made with cachaça, sugar and lime. Cachaça is Brazil's
most common distilled alcoholic beverage. While both rum and cachaça are made from
sugarcane-derived products, most rum is made from molasses. Specifically with cachaça, the
alcohol results from the fermentation of sugarcane juice that is afterwards distilled.
The caipirinha is a national cocktail of Brazil, and is enjoyed in restaurants, bars, and many
households throughout the country. Once almost unknown outside Brazil, the drink has become
more popular and more widely available in recent years, in large part due to the rising
availability of first-rate brands of cachaça outside Brazil. The International Bartenders
Association has designated it as one of their Official Cocktails.
Caipirinha's are easy to make. All you need is a little cachaca, a lime or tow and some cane sugar
(plain sugar will be fine...