Cachaça Files: The Cuca Effing Way Cocktail Recipe

Cachaça is a liquor made from fermented sugarcane juice and is now recognized by the U.S. as a distinctive product of Brazil, instead of as a "Brazilian rum." In June 2014, the World Cup will be held in Brazil, followed by the Olympics in 2016. This could mean for cachaça what a similar sporting coup a few decades back did for tequila. A year before the Olympics were held in Mexico, the country signed a treaty with U.S., which led to a great increase of tequila being sold in the States.

So you'll want to get a head start and mix up cachaça cocktails immediately. Like this one, which comes to us from New York's Evelyn Drinkery in Alphabet City. It contains Cuca Fresca, a premium organic cachaça.

Cachaça Files: The Cuca Effing Way Cocktail Recipe
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Cachaça Files: The Cuca Effing Way Cocktail Recipe
Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 ounces Cuca Fresca
  • 1/2 ounce Benedictine
  • 3/4 ounce chipotle agave
  • 1/2 dropper Bitter End Memphis BBQ bitters
  • 3/4 ounce passion fruit purée
  • 3/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
  • seltzer
Directions
  1. Shake all ingredients and strain into a collins glass over fresh ice.
  2. Top with seltzer (approximately 1 ounce) and dust top with cayenne powder.
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