The Drinks of Brazil - Caipirinha

The Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil. I have collected accounts of the Caipirinha being a good 'any time' drink to have in the morning, afternoon or night; However, if you drink too many in the morning you will be out like it's night. According to the International Bartenders Association it is made with 2 teaspoons of sugar 1/2 a lime and 5 cl of cachaça, although I doubt most bartenders measure that exactly. The Caipifruta replaces lime with some other fruit and sometimes adds condensed milk.

The Drinks of Brazil - Chimarrão

By popular demand chimarrão. Now anybody who has been around someone from Argentina, Uruguay, or Paraguay would say that's just mate, and they would be right. Chimarrão is like tea in inverse kinematics, lots of leaves form the erva mate plant (yerba mate plant in Spanish) with only a little bit of hot water. Special equipment is needed to drink chimarrão. A dried gourd known as a cuia, is used as a cup with a special metal straw, called a bomba, that has a strainer at one end. It is usually drunk in social gatherings passing the gourd around and people taking a sip from the straw. It is predominantly drunk in the south of Brazil, however a variant of the drink is served in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso Sul where it is made with cold water and known as tererê.

The Drinks of Brazil – Nova Schin

Does this drink combine two great things, beer and explosive nucleosynthesis, into one? The answer is sadly no. When you drink Nova Schin instead of getting a stellar explosion of taste in you mouth you are greeted by something resembling Bud Light. The confusion comes from Portuguese being a romance language. When Tycho Brahe saw the supernova of 1572 in the sky he thought that it was a brand new star and so he called it stella nova which is Latin for new star. Since Portuguese is a romance language it descended from Latin and therefor the word for new, nova, is the same. So like New Coke this is New Schin, which begs the question what is Schin classic like?

The Drinks of Brazil - Juice of Sleeve

Today I am starting a series looking at the many drinks that can be found in Brazil. Today, after a long sweaty day I enjoy a tall cool glass of juice of sleeve. Brazil has many fresh juices from Cashew fruit juice to Mango juice, which this is. The Brazilian word for sleeve is Manga which is also their word for Mango. The hotel staff obviously mistranslated Manga with funny results.