IBA: Contemporary Classics Cachaça
Caipirinha
Brazil’s national drink: lime and sugar muddled in the glass, then cachaça over cracked ice.
- Method
- Built
- Glass
- Old fashioned glass
- Served
- Over crushed ice
- Strength
- 17.6% ABV about 1.4 standard drinks
Ingredients
101 ml before ice, about 136 ml in the glass
Method
- Place lime and sugar into a double old fashioned glass and muddle gently.
- Fill the glass with cracked ice and add Cachaça.
- Stir gently to involve ingredients.
Garnish
None. IBA serves it without a garnish.
Variations
- Caipiroska
- Vodka instead of cachaça.
- Caipirissima
- Rum instead of cachaça.
- Caipirão
- Licor Beirão instead of cachaça.
Recipe as specified by the International Bartenders Association. Strength is an estimate that allows for dilution from ice.
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