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Caipirinha (Contemporary Serve)

Name: Caipirinha (Contemporary Serve)
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3&frasl;4 fresh Lime (fresh); 60 ml Cachaça (unaged); 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)

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Ingredients
³⁄₄ fresh	Lime (fresh) (chopped wedges)
2 fl oz	Cachaça (unaged)
1/2 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

Garnish: Stirrer but no garnish

How to make

Glassware

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Method:

MUDDLE lime wedges in the base of shaker to release juice and oils in its skin. Add cachaça and sugar. SHAKE with 6oz scoop crushed ice and pour all without straining into glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

18.9 grams of pure alcohol

History

In its native Brazil it is usual to serve this drink with cubed ice (actually most usually holly tubular machine ice) but the drink travelled to, and became popular the UK at a time when the use of crushed ice was fashionable, so in this and other 'new' cachaça markets the use of crushed ice has become the norm.

For information on the history and other variations of the Caipirinha, please see our Caipirinha cocktail page.

Comments & Discussion

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Casey Stimpson 1y

Love this version, so simple and still delicious. I started making these with the addition of Aperol:

1/2 lime, cut into wedges
1-3/4 oz Cachaça
3/4 oz Aperol
1/4 oz 1:1 simple syrup

Mark 2y

I prefer to shake with the cubed ice as i like the dirty style of serving, end result tends to be equally good. (I totally did not borrow that method from the Cocktail Codex)