Caipirinha Cocktail

(Brazilian)

cachaca, alcohol, sugar, lime

Caipirinha is Brazil's national cocktail, made with cachaça (sugarcane hard liquor), sugar and lime. Cachaça, also known as Pinga or Caninha, is Brazil's most common distilled alcoholic beverage. Although both rum and cachaça are made from sugarcane-derived products, in cachaça the alcohol results from the fermentation of fresh sugarcane juice that is then distilled, while rum is usually made from refinery by-products such as molasses.

The drink is prepared by smashing the fruit and the sugar together, and adding the …

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Created Nov. 29, 2018 by: itisclaudio


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