National Cachaça Day is September 13! Cachaça is a distilled spirit made from fermented sugarcane juice. It is the most popular spirit among distilled alcoholic beverages in Brazil and the country’s national spirit.
While Cachaça may be best known for the Caipirinha cocktail, it can also be used in other tropical drinks. And with many of us reducing travel or not traveling at all, a cachaça cocktail can be just the thing to transport us to tropical climates! We’ve compiled a collection of some cocktail creations below to help you celebrate this weekend.
Epistrophy’s Cachaça Colada (Pina Colada)
Ingredients:
Add 1 1/2 oz of Abelha Cachaca Silver to a blender
Add 1 oz of lime,
Add 1/2 oz of agave syrup
Add 1 cube of Frozen Pinà mix (1 part Coconut cream, 3 parts pineapple juice – frozen in ice cubes)
Directions:
Blend all together. Pour into a high-ball glass. Garnish with a de-hydrated lime wheel and a leaf of a pineapple. Serve!
Abacaxi De Ouro
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz. Abelha Organic Cachaça Ouro
1 oz. The Perfect Purée Carmelized Pineapple Concentrate, thawed
3/4 oz. spice syrup (ginger, cloves, lemon peels)
1 oz. fresh lime juice
3 dashes cardamon bitters
Black smoke salt rim
Directions:
In a cocktail shaker, combine all ingredients with ice, shake and serve on the rocks with a black smoke salt rim. Garnish with pineapple leaves, star anise, and black smoke salt.
Recipe and photo courtesy of The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley.
Prata Rosa
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz. Abelha Organic Cachaça Prata
1 oz. The Perfect Purée Pink Guava Puree, thawed
1/8 oz. vanilla concentrate
1 oz. fresh lemon juice
2 oz. ginger beer
3 dashes of Angostura bitters
Directions:
In a cocktail shaker, combine all ingredients with ice, except ginger beer and Angostura. Shake and serve on the rocks. Top with ginger beer and Angostura bitters, and garnish with a cinnamon stick and a lemon wheel.
Recipe and photo courtesy of The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley.
