The importance of good cachaça to have a good caipirinha. Find out what good cachaça is, how it is made and the role represented by cachaça in the reconstruction of Lisbon after the earthquake.
Help me clarify what makes a good or a bad cachaça. In Portugal more than 4,500,000 caipirinhas are consumed per year, but do you know if the cachaça used in these Caipirinhas is of good quality? Why do so many people ask for a caipiroska and not a caipirinha with cachaça? Why do they have a headache after drinking a caipirinha or they find the taste of bad cachaça unpleasant? How can we distinguish one from the other? On the other hand, cachaça is not only a component of caipirinha. Cachaça can be aged in oak barrels or other woods and the book explains how to drink an aged cachaça. Do you know that cachaça helped rebuild Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake? Do you know that cachaça is Brazilian but resulted from the Portuguese bringing sugar cane to Brazil? Cachaça is a distilled beverage derived from sugar cane: the sugar cane is squeezed, its juice is fermented and then distilled in pot stills, but the secret for a good cachaça will be explained in the book.