Cool with this 3-component tropical cocktail

Why is it working

The ruin of the lime quarters with sugar is the juice while extracting some of the aromatic oils from the shell, which results in a deeper and livelier lime taste.

Think of Caipirinha as a DaiquiriBold, sunny Brazilian cousin.

Both drinks have simple triple ingredients: fresh lime, sugar and cane-based spirit. But they are involved in both spirit and style. Where Daiquiri uses a light rum, often crisp and clean in Cuban tradition, caipirinha is built liquidNational Spirit of Brazil. The Cachaça, a more rustic, grassy aroma of the fermented sugar cane directly from the fermented sugar cane, gives the cocktail an unmistakable character.

And, unlike Daiquiri, which usually uses only Lime juice, Caipirinha throws the oils from the shell throughout the lime – PITH, PITH and Cellulose – and a gentle bitterness that results in complexity.

After a relative novelty outside of Brazil, Caipirinha is now a cocktail-bar racing around the world. Refreshing, slightly funky and infinitely crushed, this is one of the simplest and most appropriate and warm weather cocktails you can make

August 2010