Caipirinha
Brazil's national cocktail: muddled lime and sugar brought to life by cachaça, the funky, fresh-cut sugarcane spirit that makes it incomparable.
Ingredients
- 2 oz cachaça
- 1 lime, cut into wedges
- 2 tsp granulated sugar
Instructions
- 1Place lime wedges and sugar in a rocks glass.
- 2Muddle firmly to release lime juice and dissolve the sugar.
- 3Fill with crushed ice, add cachaça, and stir vigorously to combine.
Origin & Story
The Caipirinha — little countryside girl in Portuguese — is made with cachaça, the most consumed spirit in Brazil and one of the oldest in the Americas, distilled directly from fresh sugarcane juice rather than molasses. The drink is Brazil's national cocktail by law, and its global spread accelerated after Brazilian restaurants proliferated internationally in the 1990s, introducing the world to cachaça's distinctive grassy-funky character.
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