Caipirinha

The Caipirinha is an IBA Contemporary Classic: 3 ingredients, built in the glass and served in a rocks glass. That makes 126 ml in the glass: a middling measure.

Ingredients

• 60 mlcachaça
• 30 mlfresh lime juice
• 20 mlsugar

Method

1. Place lime and sugar into a double old fashioned glass and muddle gently.
2. Fill the glass with cracked ice and add Cachaça. Stir gently to involve ingredients.
3. Note:
4. Caipiroska – Instead of Cachaça use Vodka;
5. Caipirissima – Instead of Cachaça use Rum.
6. Caipirão – Instead of Cachaça use Licor Beirão.

What it tastes like

bitter → sweet

Sweetness shows without covering: it comes from sugar, with 0.3 out of 10 of bitterness holding it back.

round → sour

Citrus shows, but this is no sour: 28th of 186, and it comes from fresh lime juice.

light → strong

19.0% after dilution: the middle band, 50th of 186.

Among the five around it on the map it is the only one built on cachaça.

Five that come close

• BrambleBuilt on gin and with gin in place of cachaça.
• Whiskey SourBuilt on whisky and with bourbon whiskey in place of cachaça.
• Mai-TaiRounder and built on rum.
• GimletBuilt on gin and with gin in place of cachaça.
• IllegalRounder and built on tequila.

Every drink near the Caipirinha on the map

Recipe source: IBA · checked on 30 October 2026