Cocktail Recipe: The Herb Cane

August 28, 2008

Cocktail Recipe: The Herb Cane

Perhaps I'm feeling nostalgic for the 31 years spent living in the San Francisco Bay Area, but I was glad to see that Boca Loca Cachaça thought to name a cocktail after Baghdad-By-The-Bay's legendary columnist Herb Caen.

Rachel Forrest, writing for SeacoastOnline.Com offers the "Herb Cane" (as in herbs and "sugar cane"... Get it? Har har...) along with other Boca-Loca-supplied recipes:

Herb Cane

3 basil leaves

6 mint leaves

2 ounces Boca Loca Cachaça

0.5 ounce Chartreuse (green)

0.5 ounce brown sugar syrup

1 ounce fresh squeezed lemon juice

1 small orange peel

Muddle basil and mint into shaker. Pour in next four ingredients and shake vigorously with ice. Strain liquid into rocks glass. Squeeze essential oil from orange peel into drink and drop in for garnish.

You'll note there are two ellipses used above. True Caen fans will get the reference.

Posted by Phil Gomes on August 28, 2008 at 06:02 AM in Boca Loca, Cocktails | Permalink

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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.
So I decided to start this blog as a means to record and share the cachaça-related items I've been seeing day-to-day. I hope to be sharing recipes, impressions, and random thoughts as the U.S. continues to catch on to the potential for this particular spirit.
Oh... The name? "Cachaçagora" is a portmanteau of "Cachaça" and "agora", which is the Portuguese word for "now". In Greek, "agora" also means public square. I hope to meet the expectations of both.
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August 28, 2008