Cachaçagora - Cachaça, Caipirinha, And Cocktails

Review: Boca Loca

The folks at Boca Loca found me here at Cachaçagora and thoughtfully sent over a bottle for review.

Overall, good. For those of you who perhaps tire of cachaças aged in old oak barrels, Boca Loca offers a nice alternative that you ought to try — 90 days in native Brazilian jequitibá barrels

The very strong caramel flavors darn near put this cachaça into liqueur territory. Highly drinkable, especially straight, but you're really going to want to be careful with this one.

Thankfully, this cachaça has better distribution than many, though I haven't yet seen it in Chicago liquor stores. You can see where to buy Boca Loca thanks to this handy map.

Three-and-a-half barrels for Boca Loca. If you find this one, tell me what you think.

Oh... Just to keep everything in one place, here's a cocktail recipe, the Herb Cane, that I pointed to earlier.

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.