Caldo de Caña | Cocktail Party

Caldo de Caña

There’s no shortage of eleven-ingredient, murky-brown, fruity-sweet tropical drinks to choose from nowadays, but it can be difficult to sift through them to find a drink that’s crisp and refreshing, light and drinkable, but still tasting of beaches and sunshine.

Enter Jesse Vida’s Caldo de Caña, a cachaça cocktail with the usual suspects (lime and pineapple juices), plus the intriguing flavors of blanc vermouth and a touch of absinthe. The blanc vermouth adds a floral herbaceousness, while the absinthe (just a touch!) sharpens the edges of the other flavors. A topper of sparkling water keeps the whole drink eminently day-drink-able.

A flavored sparkling water wouldn’t be a crime here, provided the flavor isn’t overpowering. The drink doesn’t call for much, so a bit of lime or coconut sparkling water won’t knock the drink off balance.

Ingredients

Instructions

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into an ice-filled short glass, preferably over one large cube or sphere.

Cocktail Party app on tablets and phones

Get the App

The Cocktail Party app puts this drink – and hundreds more – in your pocket, and tells you what you can make from the ingredients you have at home. It's the best $3.99 you'll ever spend on a drink.

Read more

Perfect App For Quarantinies

Stuck at home on lockdown with nothing to do? Me too, so I thought this would be the perfect time to practice my at home bartending skills. After trying more than a dozen apps, I can tell you that this is the one you are looking for. A beautiful app with a simple user interface and hundreds of wonderful recipes. Your ingredients are super easy to enter, and finding new drinks to try with what you have at home is so intuitive. Want to know what to buy to make even more recipes? It does that too. Automatically! Did I mention that it is beautiful? No 8-bit graphics here! And best of all, the developers are responsive and actively working on new features to make this even better. If you want to see what sort of recipes they have, check out the website.
US YippeeCalle, iTunes App Store