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January 19, 2009

Inauguration Cocktails

A hearty hat-tip to Cocktail Conversations, who shared these two Cabana-based cachaça cocktails in time for the inauguration.

The theme, of course, is "Red, White, and Blue". Cachaça figures into two of them.

Blue Cocktail

  • 1 1/2 oz Cabana Cachaça
  • 3/4 oz blue curacao
  • 1 oz pineapple juice
  • 2 lemon wedges
  • 1 teaspoon of sugar
  • Muddle sugar and lemon. Add ingredients and shake vigorously, serve on rocks in rocks glass, no extra garnish.

White Cocktail

  • 1 1/2 oz Cabana Cachaça
  • 1/2 oz Crème de caco white
  • Egg white
  • 1 oz Sweetened lemon juice (lemon juice and two heaping spoonfuls of sugar also does the trick)
  • Shake all ingredients in an ice filled shaker and strain. Serve in a martini glass.

I'm still on the road, working out of the day job's Mumbai office. Thanks to this office's GM (the inimitable Roger "Mr. P" Pereira), I'll be taking in the inauguration at an event sponsored by the U.S. Consul General and the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce. Just one more incredible experience in what's turning out to be an absolutely mind-scrambling trip.

Posted by on January 19, 2009 at 08:28 AM in Cabana, Cocktails |

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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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