Strawberry Caipirinha
3 shared ingredients · also Other / Non-spirit
Caipirinha
🥃 Serve in: Old-Fashioned Glass
Lime and sugar get muddled directly into cachaca -- Brazil's grassy, funky sugarcane spirit -- then the whole thing goes over crushed ice with nothing else added. Three ingredients, no shortcuts: the entire drink lives or dies on how well the lime gets muddled, since over-work the pith and you've ruined it with bitterness. Cachaca's rougher, more vegetal character is what keeps this from tasting like a rum drink in disguise. Brazil's national cocktail, and one of the great arguments for restraint.
Ingredients
- Sugar2 tsp
- Lime1
- Cachaca2.5 oz
Instructions
Place lime and sugar into old fashioned glass and muddle (mash the two ingredients together using a muddler or a wooden spoon). Fill the glass with ice and add the Cachaça.
