This delicious drink is made with an easy-to-find sugar cane based spirit, Cachaca, that unlike rum, which is made from cane molasses & pulps, is made from pure cane juice. I usually find Brazilian Cachaca in the rum section of my local liquor store. This is a very powerful cocktail and easy to drink which makes it dangerous. Stop and see how you feel after two. If you drink more than three, you’ll hate me in the morning.

Here we go –

• 3 oz Cachaca
• 1 lime (cut into 8 wedges – half, then quarter each half)
• 2 tsp sugar
• ½ oz lemon or limejuice (if needed)

In a bar glass, muddle the sugar and lime wedges until almost paste-like, add small amounts of the juice if the lime wedge/sugar mix becomes too gummy. Add a couple handfuls of ice and the Cachaca. Shake till cold and mixed well. Pour everything into a short or old-fashioned glass and add a stir stick. Perfect with some of that bossa nova or mambo I talk about over on our music page.

Tags: Cachaca

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