I love Caipirinha

My favourite cocktail 🍹

History 🌍

Caipirinha (Portuguese pronunciation: [kajpiˈɾĩj̃ɐ]) is Brazil's national cocktail, made with cachaça (sugarcane hard liquor), sugar, and lime. The word caipirinha is the diminutive of the word caipira, which in Brazilian Portuguese refers to someone from the countryside (specifically, someone from the rural parts of south-central Brazil), similar to US English hillbilly or the Lowland Scots teuchter.

Caipira is a two-gender noun. The diminutive mostly-refers to the drink, in which case it is a feminine noun. According to historians, the caipirinha was invented by landowning farmers in the region of Piracicaba, interior of the State of São Paulo during the 19th century as a local drink for 'high standard' events and parties, a reflection of the strong sugarcane culture in the region.

The caipirinha is the strongest national cocktail of Brazil, and is imbibed in restaurants, bars, and many households throughout the country. Once almost unknown outside Brazil, the drink became more popular and more widely available in recent years, in large part due to the rising availability of first-rate brands of cachaça outside Brazil.The International Bartenders Association designated it as one of its Official Cocktails, as a Contemporary Classic.

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Why I love it? 💚

I love Caipirinha because it's an amazing cocktail and this is pretty obvious. It's really good and, if you find the right place or if you nail the recipe like a PRO, it will become your favourite drink as well! But this is not the only reason why I love this special cocktail.

I love Caipirinha because, no matter what time of the year it is, it always reminds me about summer, happy memories, music, good vibes and lots of people having fun on the beach. Which is not exactly the scenario we are used to during this pandemic. So for me, right now, drinking a good Caipirinha, maybe with a few friends (always respecting social distancing, of course), it's a small ritual that gives me, even if for a brief moment, a unique sense of freedom.

Ingredients & Recipe 📝

Ingredients: 60 ml cachaça, 1 lime cut into small wedges, 4 teaspoons sugar.

Place lime and sugar into old fashioned glass and muddle (mash the two ingredients together using a muddler or a wooden spoon). Fill the glass with ice and add the Cachaça. A wide variety of fresh fruits can be used in place of lime. In the absence of cachaça, vodka can be used, making a "Caipiroska".