Name: Brasil
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Cachaça (unaged); 20 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 25 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)

Ingredients

1 1/3 fl oz

Cachaça (unaged)

2/3 fl oz

Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)

5/6 fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

1/3 fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

Prepare garnish of basil sprig.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with basil sprigs bouquet.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Brasil contains 195 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.04% alc./vol. (38.08° proof)
19.4 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Calvin Grant Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 3 months ago

Revisited with a different cachaça. Still exceptional.

Charl Engela Commenter Appreciated Commenter 1 year ago

Made exactly as specified. It tastes like nothing so much as ice-cold Lemsip (although I usually fortify Lemsip with a good slug of Scotch). But it's rather nice.

Charl Engela Commenter Appreciated Commenter 1 year ago

And making the second one with limoncello instead of lemon juice and sugar changes it completely, but makes it just a nice - and probably much more alcoholic

Bryn Maagaard Appreciated Commenter Commenter 2 years ago

A bit too sweet for me, might increase the citrus to a full shot and leave out the sugar syrup. Otherwise enjoyable and tasted like a herbal caipirinha.

John Hinojos Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 5 years ago

Very nice and refreshing. Reminds me of a complex falvoured Caipirinha.

Matthew French Commenter Appreciated Commenter 5 years ago

I stumbled across this recipe whilst surfing your site, unfortunately I didn't have lemons but did have limes which seemed more appropriate for a Brazilian cocktail. The green of the limes along with the yellow of the Chartreuse Jaune reminded me of the colours of the Brazilian flag, so I call my twist Ordem e Progresso

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