# How should we drink Cachaça? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-we-drink-cachaca/602724 "2011-11-12T21:17:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Toffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@Toffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toffe)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-we-drink-cachaca/602724/21 "2011-11-14T18:09:06Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > I admire your sister’s bravery. Maybe she can start a pruno wine trail thing and visit prisons. 😛 OK, that made me giggle 😃 [QUOTE=OpalCat] I like yerba mate (with lots of sugar) as an alternative to coffee or tea… the Atlanta Jugglers Association is known for always keeping a pot of it brewing, which is where I was introduced to it. So are you saying that the Cachaça mixed with it is a hot drink? [/QUOTE] The cachaça in the chimarrão that I make is a hot drink, yes. Erva in a cuia with hot water&cachaça, drunk through a bomba, absolutely no sugar. Cold mate (strained from a teabag of erva, and typically with lemon/lime juice and sugar) or _tereré_ with cachaça I’ve never tried. Might have to try it one day 🙂 Hm, as for other ideas… as suggested above, there aren’t really any other popular mixed drinks or shooters with cachaça; it’s all variations on the caipirinha theme. Anything else is experimentation. OK, another caipirinha variation is the batida; basically a smoothie version of a caipirinha or caipifruta. Only had one once under that name, and it was OK, but can’t remember exactly how it was made. I suppose it uses more juice, and condensed milk and/or cream. ---
**Author:** ![vdgg81](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3d9bf3/32.png) [@vdgg81](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vdgg81)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-we-drink-cachaca/602724/22 "2011-11-15T01:14:04Z")
> [@Toffe](#): > > OK, another caipirinha variation is the batida; basically a smoothie version of a caipirinha or caipifruta. Only had one once under that name, and it was OK, but can’t remember exactly how it was made. I suppose it uses more juice, and condensed milk and/or cream. Good call, I totally forgot about this one. _Batidas_ are a great beach drink, but I only know how to do coconut batidas and with vodka, but I know there’s passion fruit and strawberry batidas as well (and probably many others). You’ll have to experiment to get the portions right, but what you do is you blend some coconut milk with _cachaça_ and condensed milk and then serve that on a tall glass filled with ice. You top it off with lots of dried coconut shavings and serve it with a straw. I don’t like my drinks too sweet so I go very easy on the condensed milk and use vodka instead of pinga, but you can experiment and find your own ideal portions easily enough. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-we-drink-cachaca/602724/23 "2011-11-15T20:02:56Z")
Cashew apple, sugar, and ice. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-we-drink-cachaca/602724/24 "2011-11-15T21:57:46Z")
I would go with the _caipirinha_. I’ve had batidas but usually during Carnival or Réveillon. I’m never quite sure what goes in them and the hangover the next day can be brutal. One mix that I haven’t seen mentioned was cachamel. It is one part cachaça, one part lime and one part honey. It isn’t bad, but I wouldn’t drink more than one. You can always mix some into your coffee as an eyeopener. My great grandmother used to do that in her later years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-we-drink-cachaca/602724.md?page=1)