Cocktail Recipe: Watermelon Jalapeño Caipirinha (Cachaçagora

July 13, 2008

Cocktail Recipe: Watermelon Jalapeño Caipirinha

My wife alerted me to this tip from Sean Timberlake's Twitter. Sean runs the Hedonia blog about "eating, drinking, and living the good life in America's most hedonistic city, San Francisco". He recently enjoyed a watermelon jalapeño caipirinha at Aziza in San Francisco.

I Googled for a recipe and I found this one at South Carolina's The State.

Watermelon Jalapeño Caipirinha

2 ounces Leblon cachaça

1/2 ounce lime juice

Dash of simple syrup

1/2 cup chopped watermelon

1 stem of cilantro

1/2 small jalapeno or other chili

Muddle the jalapeno, cilantro, watermelon and simple syrup. Shake hard with Leblon and remaining ingredients. Strain over ice into a highball glass. Garnish with a stem of cilantro and two watermelon balls.

Posted by Phil Gomes on July 13, 2008 at 10:43 AM in Caipirinha, Cocktails | Permalink

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Oh yay - I was considering trying to reverse-engineer the cocktail, but you've done all the work for me. Thanks!

Posted by: Sean | July 13, 2008 at 02:51 PM

Hey, no problem! Let me know how close you get to the Aziza version.

Posted by: Phil Gomes | July 13, 2008 at 04:14 PM

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Hi. My name is Phil Gomes. By day, I work at a public relations firm as its senior vice president of digital integration. I'm a proud SF East Bay native who currently lives in Chicago.
I was introduced to cachaça by my wife, a Carioca. Her mom, in turn, is the president of the Confraria de Cachaça do Copo Furado, a group that meets monthly to talk about Brazil's indigenous spirit. I participated in one of their meetings when I vacationed in Rio in July 2008.
This started me thinking about the basic question of whether cachaça in the U.S. is today where, say, tequila was some decades ago.
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