Drinking In Brazil: Cachaça
Reading Time: 1 minute Until now I have been talking a lot about beer.
I know many of you don’t drink beer, and I know many of you have other problems, but we can talk about that in private.
More importantly, in Brazil, there exists a drink, more accurately, a type of liquor known as cachaça. It is produced from fermented sugarcane and used to make Brazil’s national drink (and quite possibly the most sugary drink in the world): the caipirinha.
For R$6 (which, at the time of writing, translates to approximately $3.60USD), you can buy a (glass) 750 ml bottle (a fifth) of 51 (Cinquenta e Um), the classiest cachaça in Brazil (note: an 8oz can of Red Bull costs more than this).
There are countless brands to choose from, but unfortunately, due to my lack of a limitless supply of money, I have yet to experiment beyond the offerings of R$6 bottles.
I have been told that Minas Gerais produces the best cachaça in Brazil (aka Cinquenta e Um), but I have also been told that a decent bottle can be purchased in Rio without inflicting too much damage to my wallet.
Cachaça mixed with guaraná has become my cheap, delicious ,and effective drink of choice, but I hope to expand on this in the future.
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Congratulations on your unintelligible comment.
Just saying 51 is actually the worst cachaça in Brazil and it is produced in São Paulo
Worst cachaça in Brazil, and therefore the world.
São Paulo knows what’s up.