“A pair of them will make you leap like [a] Playtex Girdle-gal,” wrote Charles H. Baker Jr. in his eccentric 1951 work, “The South American Gentleman’s Companion.”His racy description ...

Step 3: Fill the glass with quality ice cubes. Step 4: Pour in the Cachaça and give a gentle stir to combine. Step 5: Garnish with fresh mint and a lime wheel.

Brazil’s favorite spirit goes by the name of cachaça, a rum-like liquor steeped in history. Meet a family from the state of São Paulo that helped pioneer the drink.

Cachaca is distilled to a lower strength than the 90-plus-per-cent alcohol level of most white spirits, ... Cut half a lime into wheels or half-wedges and muddle in an old-fashioned glass.

Fill a rocks glass with ice. In a cocktail shaker, muddle the lime juice and lime wedges with the sugar and simple syrup. Add the cachaça and 1 cup of ice and shake vigorously.

Learn about Cachaca, a Brazilian distilled spirit made from sugarcane juice. Cachaca is similar to rum, and has herbal, vegetal notes alongside sugarcane.

Brazil’s favorite spirit goes by the name of cachaça, a rum-like liquor steeped in history. Meet a family from the state of São Paulo that helped pioneer the drink.