Brazilian Cocktails

53 recipes, including Brazuka Sour, Caiperol, Caipivinho.

53 Brazilian cocktail recipes.

  • Brazuka Sour — Inspired by the New York Sour, using a float for visual and sensory impact.
  • Caiperol — Brazilian caipirinha technique meets the Italian aperitivo.
  • Caipivinho — A caipirinha topped with dry red wine.
  • Coconut Caipirinha — Quick and easy with a pre-sweetened coconut cachaça liqueur.
  • Cinnamon Caipiroska — Cinnamon liqueur with lime and a cherry in syrup.
  • Coffee Caipirinha — Cachaça, lime, and cold brew coffee liqueur.
  • Grape Caipirinha — A caipirinha muddled with grapes, lime, and cachaça, finished with a grape skewer.
  • Tangerine Caipirinha — A citrusy caipirinha with muddled tangerine and cachaça.
  • Lime & Honey Caipirinha — A classic caipirinha sweetened with honey, muddled before the ice goes in.
  • Lazy Caipirinha (Limoneto) — Cachaça and Limoneto soda built straight in a tall glass.
  • Brazilian Negroni — A Negroni twist with cachaça, sweet red vermouth, and Cynar.
  • Filho do Geraldo — A take on the classic Fitzgerald with cachaça and a half-mixed aromatic bitters float.
  • Caipi Jambu — A passion fruit caipirinha with jambu liqueur and crushed ice.
  • Banzeiro — A cachaça sour with a dry red wine layer and a citrusy ginger foam.
  • Macunaíma — A white cachaça cocktail with honey syrup and Fernet, served up.
  • Caipirinha Spritz — A classic caipirinha topped with sparkling wine, stirred gently to keep the bubbles.
  • Green Grape Aperinha — A green grape caipirinha with Aperol and cachaça.
  • Pé de Moleque Sour — A whiskey sour with pé de moleque (Brazilian peanut brittle) syrup and salt, aerated in two stages for foam without egg white.
  • Bomberinho — A shot of cachaça, fresh lime, and grenadine, shaken and strained into 40 ml.
  • Cabra Coco — Coffee liqueur, coconut cachaça, and whiskey, with optional applewood smoke.
  • Rabo de Galo — A stirred Brazilian classic: cachaça, sweet vermouth, and Cynar.
  • Caipirinha Jorge Amado — A Paraty caipirinha with passion fruit pulp, lime, and clove-and-cinnamon Gabriela cachaça, served unstrained.
  • Camparinha — A caipirinha that pairs Campari's bitterness with cachaça, with gently muddled lime.
  • Cachaça Mojito — A mojito built with white cachaça, lightly pressed mint, and crushed ice, lengthened with soda water.
  • Cachaça Margarita — A margarita with cachaça instead of tequila, a salt rim, and a double strain into a chilled glass.
  • Cachaça Basil Smash — A Basil Smash with cachaça: basil muddled hard in the shaker, double strained, and aromatic in a rocks glass.
  • Caipi Summer — A summer caipirinha with muddled strawberries and blueberry syrup, shaken in the shaker.
  • Tudo Efêmero — A short sour of Beerita Elétrica jambu gin, backed up with BEG gin and lemon.
  • Garganta — A cachaça sour with muddled ginger, honey syrup, and triple sec, finished with loosely mixed aromatic bitters.
  • Jabuti — A jabuticaba liqueur sour with lime, orange juice, and egg white — the native Brazilian fruit becomes the base.
  • Caipiroska — The classic caipirinha with vodka instead of cachaça: lime, simple syrup, and ice in a rocks glass.
  • Maré Baixa — A gin highball lengthened with cajuína and lime, with mint muddled in the glass.
  • Pé de Serra — A cachaça highball with passion fruit pulp and lime, lengthened with guaraná soda.
  • Caipirinha — Brazil's national cocktail: lime muddled with sugar, cachaça, and lots of ice.
  • Cashew Fruit Caipirinha — Cashew fruit muddled with syrup and lime: the acidity the fruit lacks, to bring out the juice and the cachaça.
  • Caju Blue — Easygoing highball of cashew fruit juice, honey cachaça, and blue curaçao, lengthened with soda water.
  • Caju Amigo — Brazilian shaken classic of cachaça, cashew fruit in syrup, and lime, served unstrained in a highball.
  • Brazilian Old Fashioned — Old Fashioned of aged cachaça, coconut rum, and cacao bitters, with nutmeg.
  • Strawberry Mojito — Cachaça mojito with strawberries muddled in a highball, mint just pressed, and crushed ice on top.
  • 90's Brasileiro — A stirred drink of cachaça, sweet red vermouth, Cynar, and brigadeiro syrup in equal parts, in a rocks glass.
  • Jabuticaba Caipirinha — Built caipirinha with lime, jabuticaba Le Fruit, and unaged cachaça.
  • Jaboo Raíz — Jabuticaba liqueur shaken with unaged cachaça, ginger, cinnamon, and brown sugar, in a rocks glass.
  • Jaboo Negroni — An inverted Negroni: jabuticaba liqueur in place of vermouth, with small pours of gin and Campari and a tangerine twist.
  • Marajó — Highball of Beerita Elétrica jambu gin lengthened with ice-cold coconut water, lime, and mint.
  • Nanica de Ouro — Sour of Bacardi gold rum and Quero Chuva Banana, no syrup, served in a chilled coupe.
  • Pororoca — Cachaça sour with açaí-and-guaraná liqueur, no extra syrup, in a rocks glass.
  • Arraial Mule — Cachaça mule with pé de moleque (peanut brittle) syrup and lime, lengthened with ginger beer.
  • Cinnamon Sour — Cinnamon liqueur sour with lime and honey syrup, shaken and served over fresh ice.
  • Guaraná & Açaí Caipirinha — Cachaça and açaí-guaraná liqueur, with blackberry syrup in place of sugar.
  • Cowboy Latino — Whiskey sour with passion fruit pulp and lime, finished with aromatic bitters in a gradient in a rocks glass.
  • Ouro de Tolo — Cynar sour with honey syrup, lime, and basil, egg white for foam in a rocks glass.
  • Fireball Passion Fruit — Cinnamon liqueur shot with passion fruit mixer, finished with lemon foam.
  • Igarapé — Cachaça highball with açaí-and-guaraná liqueur, lime, and guaraná soda.

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