Update On Cuca Fresca's Mixology Contest

September 23, 2009

Update On Cuca Fresca's Mixology Contest

Camper English points us to the Cuca Fresca mixology contest, Shake Your Way To Brazil, which launched in July. Recipes are up and voting is open.

There are plenty of intruiging recipes up on the contest site now. A carrot-juice-based cocktail from Todd Appel of Chicago's Hotel Sax caught Camper's interest, but I gave my vote to Corey Bunnewith's Brazilian Autumn:

Brazilian Autumn

2 oz Cuca Fresca Premium Cachaça

.5 oz Lime Juice

.25 oz Domaine de Canton

.25 oz Honey

3 Shiso Leaves

Dash Angostura Bitters

Shake over ice. Double strain into a coupe. Grate nutmeg over the top for garnish.

Why? A couple of reasons:

I've been experimenting with Domaine de Canton for a while here at the Gomecile.
Honey and nutmeg have been favorite cocktail ingredients of mine for a while now.

Public voting ends on Halloween. Cuca Fresca will announce the judges' and People's Choice awards on Nov. 1.

Posted by Phil Gomes on September 23, 2009 at 09:26 PM in Cocktails, Cuca Fresca, Events | 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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September 23, 2009