Cuca Fresca Mixology Contest, Win A Trip To Brazil (Cachaçagora

July 12, 2009

Cuca Fresca Mixology Contest, Win A Trip To Brazil

Think you can come up with a great cocktail using Cuca Fresca Premium or Cuca Fresca Gold? Well, it could be worth a trip to Brazil and a tour of Cuca Fresca's distillery.

The rules are simple: You are allowed four additional ingredients besides the Cuca Fresca to work with. One catch: You have to be a professional bartender and your drink must be on the menu at the restaurant/bar where you work to qualify for the Peoples' Choice award. (Your humble author, therefore, does not qualify.)

From the announcement earlier this month, here are the important deadlines:

July 1-Sept. 15: Recipe submissions can be made via CucaFrescaSpirit.com
July 22-Oct. 31: People can cast their votes at CucaFrescaSpirit.com for the “People’s Choice” finalist.
Oct. 15: Twenty semi-finalists will be chosen by the judges and will be promoted on the Cuca Fresca website for two weeks.
Nov. 1: Four finalists will be announced on and will compete live at the end of November. The Peoples' Choice winner will be announced at that time.

Good luck!

UPDATE (2009-07-21): Clarifications supplied by CF's Phoenix Kelly-Rappa in boldface italics.

Posted by Phil Gomes on July 12, 2009 at 05:00 PM in Cuca Fresca, News | 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.
Saúde!
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