Caipirinha (Contemporary Serve)

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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
3⁄4 fresh Lime (fresh) chopped wedges
2 oz Cachaça
1⁄2 oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
× 1 1 serving
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Garnish: Stirrer but no garnish

How to make:

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.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 6/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 7/10
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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.

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Casey Stimpson’s Avatar Casey Stimpson
6th October 2024 at 01:24
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
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Mark’s Avatar Mark
4th June 2024 at 01:06
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)
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Dávid Ugróczi’s Avatar Dávid Ugróczi
29th December 2023 at 23:23
This was probably my first really good cocktail made with cachaça. I used agave syrup instead of sugar.
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Ian T’s Avatar Ian T
16th August 2023 at 20:44
I like to use a whole lime in my Caipirinha, particularly as supermarket limes tend to be small.
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Fernando Yu’s Avatar Fernando Yu
20th March 2022 at 13:24
So simple and easy to make, yet so delicious. Fantastic fantastic drink!
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Rebecca Jeanson’s Avatar Rebecca Jeanson
28th September 2020 at 00:59
the best!
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