Cocktail Recipe: Happy 2009

December 31, 2008

Cocktail Recipe: Happy 2009

A Mountain Of Crushed Ice has been on a cachaça tear lately. For your New Year's enjoyment, here's the "2009".

2009

1 oz cachaça
1 oz gin
0.5 oz pear syrup
0.4 oz lemon juice
1.5 oz apple juice
4-5 fresh basil leaves, torn
Champagne to top
Garnish pear slices and basil

Shake the ingredients except the champagne and pour into a tall fancy glass with cracked ice. Top with champagne and stir gently. Garnish with pear slices and fresh fragrant basil.

1 pear, chopped, a few torn basil leaves, mixed with 1:1 water and raw sugar to make a syrup. Add to pan and heat it up, stir until the sugar is dissolved and let cool. Strain and bottle.

Posted by Phil Gomes on December 31, 2008 at 09:11 AM in Cocktails | Permalink

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About Cachaçagora

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.
Saúde!
cachacagora~~ at~~ gmail~~ dot~~ com

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December 31, 2008