Caipirinha

Taste

Two ounces of cachaça, three barspoons of sugar, an ounce and a half of lime, muddled and dumped with the ice. The lime is juice and hull. Grassy cane, pith, and sugar. Rocks with ice. It sits.

History

The Caipirinha is Brazil's national cocktail: cachaça, lime, and sugar, muddled, ice dumped in. The name is a diminutive of caipira, a person from the countryside. It was a countryside drink before it was a bar drink; the twentieth century brought it to the cities and then to the IBA list. This menu pours two ounces of cachaça, a tablespoon of sugar, and an ounce and a half of lime, shaken and dumped, no strain.

• Difford's Guide, Caipirinha
• The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails, The Caipirinha

Same shape, other bottles

The Sour family, with the bottle that changed.

• Blinkerrye and grapefruit juice for cachaça and lime juice
• Brown Derbybourbon and grapefruit juice for cachaça and lime juice
• Daiquirilight rum for cachaça
• Gimletgin for cachaça
• Santiagolight rum for cachaça
• The Rum Drinklight rum for cachaça