Caipirinha

Caipirinha

  • Type
    Cocktail
  • Primary alcohol by volume
    Cachaça
  • Served
    On the rocks
  • Standard garnish
    Sugarcane, lime (ingredient)
  • Standard drinkware
    Old fashioned glass
  • IBA specified ingredients
    60 ml cachaça
    1 lime cut into small wedges
    4 teaspoons white cane sugar
  • Preparation
    Place lime and sugar into a double old fashioned glass and muddle gently.
    Fill the glass with cracked ice and add cachaça.
    Stir gently to involve ingredients.
  • Notes
    Caipiroska – instead of cachaça use vodka

Caipirinha is Brazil’s national cocktail, made with cachaça (sugarcane hard liquor), sugar, and lime.

The drink is prepared by mixing the fruit and the sugar together, then adding the liquor.

This can be made in a single large glass to be shared among people, or in a larger jar, from which it is served in individual glasses.

References
Caipirinha

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