Speaking of great cocktails made with cachaça, let’s take a moment before the weekend and see what our old friends at the American Bartending School would do when confronted with a bottle of the stuff.
In this segment, we’ll learn how to make the Brazilian classic, the caipirinha (kai-peer-EEN-ya)
1. Announce to your friends that you will be making them a kah-pree-ANN-nah kah-pree-EE-nah kah-pree-EE-nah.
Note: the caipirinha is made with a special type of Brazilian liqueur called cachaça (kuh-CHA-ka, or however it’s pronounced). Like rum, cachaça also comes in different colors.
2. Introduce your friends to the cachaça bottle, then return to its original location. It will not be needed again during the construction of this cocktail.
3. Take your rock glass.
4. Add an undisclosed number of pieces of lime and some simple syrup.
5. Mash limes with a miniature baseball bat.
6. Add ice and top with one ounce of “cachaça”, which is suspiciously identical to the simple syrup bottle.
7. Top with either soda water or sweet-and-sour mix.
8. Enjoy!
Comm’n that´s not a Caipirinha, here I´ll give you the proper Brazilian recipe-
60ml or 2 ounces-white cachaça such as Sagatiba
A half of a “normal” sized lime
Around an ounce or 30ml of rich simple syrup made with brown sugar
1-cut the lime half into four pieces
2-muddle the lime with the syrup
3- add the cachaça
4-fill half of the rocks glass with crushed ice
5- mix gently
6-fill the rest of the glass with crushed ice
7-garnish with a lime wedge and two small straws
From Nuno the Portuguese Guy
Just back from Brazil – Name of drink is “ka pee RIN ya”.
No soda or other mix – no simple syrup
just the juice of many crushed limes, sugar, and cachasa.
to your list:
9. “Sometimes the limes don’t have a lot of juice in there…” Oh my god, if you can’t find decent limes in Brazil than where will you find them?
Just saw this, and I have it posted on my FB a few weeks ago with much more angry commentary on my part. Youre subtle sarcasm is far more approachable than my dissapointment. Ive actually watched a few videos from this nozzle, on the web, and find it suspeicious none of them have any comments underneath, positive or negative.
Hey! At least he didn’t pick his nose this time. Always a plus.
There are all kinds of things wrong with this video. Then again, he did learn to bartend in only two weeks. Guess, that’s all we can expect.
Hey now didn’t he say no one uses fresh limes anymore in his previous videos?
I couldn’t finish watching it!
I can’t tell if I want to feel bad for the guy.. or the Caipirinha.. oh the humility!
This guy’s video gives all bartending schools out there a bad name. Man, I just cringe every time I heard him say cachaça.
Jeffrey,
You looked a bit tired in the video. (Poor lighting maybe?)
Anyway, I added the drink to my menu but now I’m going through like sixty baseball bats a week. Someone should figure out a way to re-use those things! (Hey, just another million dollar idea from the Idea Machine…)
This video is just beautiful!
Turning off comments is just mean! That was the best part of this video!
It´s incredible the wait he perfected the art of not getting a single part of it right.
Oops, sorry! He did add some “pieces lime” to it! OH! And the ice!
I also like his math: Quick dash = half Oz. – I guess this isn´t even a big deal after all for.
Apparently, the same guy posts these vids, and his name is Jack Tiano
I also noticed he turned off comments on this video, recently.
I prefer a little sweeter KaPreenA
2 oz Simple Syrup
1/2 Lime
Muddle then add
Ice
2 oz Simple Syrup
Shake
Top with Club Soda.
You get a real buzz after 6 or 7 of these.
I am surprised he does´nt add the ice with his hands…
Jeffrey,
Be honest, you own stock in BarSchool.com. That has to be the reason you keep promoting their videos on your site!
Cheers!
Blair
This is gold.
Note: don’t let that baseball bat roll off the bar! Also, it’s traditional to muddle with the round part—the flat part is just the right size and shape for your thumb.
Never trust a bartender with two bottles of Malibu…
Wadda ya want from the guy? In the Manhattan video he describes sweet vermouth as wine with added herbs and Bionicles…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I died cracking up watching this video and your text alone in my house. OMG I have to share this with someone that will find it equally as funny (if I can find anyone).
HAHAHAH
Thanks for the GREAT laugh!!!!!
I think it’s sad. This guy obviously doesn’t have a friend in the world. If he did, don’t you think that at some point one of his friends would say, “Hey, dude, seriously, stop.” I mean let him do three or four (that’s just funny) but really, eventually, won’t you tell your pal that he’s got a four foot toilet paper trail stuck to his shoe? If he does have friends they’re just plain mean, funny, but mean.
Oh, and it is me or was he holding the muddler upside down?
In full disclosure, I went to ABS here in Tampa and I thought it was pretty well done – it all depends on the instructors. Most the recipes we were taught were reasonable. They do push the sour mix – as my instructor put it, fresh fruit is better but chances are that where ever you end up working will cheap out and use sour mix (points for honesty).
Overall, anyone who thinks that they are going to take a one – two week course and end up being a fully trained bartender probably also buys a lot of stuff off late night infomercials.
Hmmm…there’s no way that guy’s Brazilian.
Thre recipe is wrong.
You must Shake the caipirinha.
You can use simple syrup but in brasil they used sugar.
And nobody in Brasil put Soda wather in a caipirinha.
The cachaça in the video is Ypioca but you can find a lot of brands.
One of my favourites is
Sagatiba
http://www.sagatiba.com/
I’d say he just doesn’t care, had he not brought that bottle of cachaca all the way back from Brazil! Sure. He kind of looks like a carni —-maybe he was working the Ferris wheel at Carnival. Why does he piss me off so? I’ve had many a disappointing “happy hour” due to lazy, pride less bar-hacks; or maybe they had paid for his tutelage? I hold he and his ilk responsible!
I can’t BELIEVE I’ve been making it wrong all these years! Oh, the shame! I knew I’d never get away with no proper training. Finally, the truth is told.
OK, sure, this guy’s a total joke. But. for heaven’s sake man, you’re pushing olive juice in a bottle. Get a grip!
Jeff,
Perhaps we should produce a video of equal quality and panache. I bet we could butcher a Sazerac cocktail with class!
Just put a tribble on the bar — then we’ll know for sure if he’s a Klingon.
Whahaha!
Don’t tell him it’s a bad cocktail! Klingons will murder you for that!
The more I think about it, the more misunderstood I think this man is. I mean, c’mon: k’preena and k’chaka. It’s obvious:
This man is a Klingon.
(Klingon’s are notoriously lousy bartenders.)
Hah! that detail with the simple syrup bottle is one i didn`t notice before! maybe there`s no need for any Ka-ChaKa in a cah-preena?
Well, after doing 11 jugs of Caipirinha yesterday (in this case Caipiroska), i just discovered that the American Bartending School must be thinking of a diferent cocktail, since the only thing the Caipirinha and this cocktail have in coumon is the use of limes (I don’t count the Cachaça, since he really didn’t used it).
And by the way, from someone that has portuguese as a first language, he didn’t pronounce it right.
I have just spent the last hour watching a bunch of these clips. Its like watching a bad horror movie, you want to turn it off but just cant.
At least there were no boogers in this one.
Ka-Chaka Khan? Ka-Chaka Khan! I feel for you.
That was just painful.
This man is my hero, and I so want one of these t-shirts.
Man that guy is an idiot! You should watch the other ones! They are priceless!
you guys should watch this one too : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ywtTiA_h9Y It’s a classic here in holland! I just love the handles of the bottles! 😛
I’ve thinking of looking for a new career. I was just sitting around with my RIO, Goose, and we thought rather than call the Truck Driving School on the matchbook we’d call American Bartending School instead. We can be a fully qualified bartender in 1 or 2 weeks. Thanks for the tip Jeffrey!
~ Mav
P.S. Though, I think the ABS twist would be to pick your nose for 10 seconds and wipe it on the end of the bat before expertly mashing the green things.
Wicked awesome, Jeffrey. I’m gonna make one right now!
Man…. if I ever need to feel better about myself and the drinks I butcher, I can always rely on my pals at the American Bartending School to perk me right back up again!
Thanks for this, Jeffrey!
Thanks Jeff, this is what we’re going to be left
with if all the good guys keep moving north. Wow, I didn’t know I could learn to do what you do in a week or two! You keep saying that you’ve worked on your skills for years and are still learning… You just didn’t have this guy for an instructor…LOL.
Thanks Jeff, this is what we’re going to be left
with if all the good guys keep moving north. Wow, I didn’t know I could learn to do what you do in a week or two! You keep saying that you’ve worked on your skills for years and are still learning… You just didn’t have this guy for an instructor…LOL.
… America still is the land of opportunities.
… ka-cha-ka-dot-com.
I just got home with a bottle of that Boca Loca stuff and was going to piss it away on your cocktail. But I picked up a bunch of limes and this looks way easier.
Oh, crap. No sweet and sour mix. Maybe I can use 7Up.
Ha! That guy is a bigger tool than his muddler! Hey Jeffrey, he kinda reminds me of that neurotic geezer that does the furniture commercials with the off-centered toupe here in Eugene. You know, “Come SEE me!”. Always classic!
How are they and this guy simply not embarrassed by this?
I like the “I like it, tasty” – on the flip side if you actually tasted what you just made…
That was without a doubt the exact same bottle.
He should have had a kapreena before the video to calm the shakes.
Priceless.
Matt – Mmmm, that’s terrific bass!
Paul – Yes. Yes, it was.
Ka-ChaKa? Wasn’t he the simian sidekick on TV’s Land of The Lost?
I can’t watch this guy without thinking of this: http://tinyurl.com/43jcm8
Brought back from where? Brassiere?
Priceless.
I love the way sweet and sour mix is the default garnish for these guys. No drink is complete without it… even a drink that has lime and sugar as two of its three ingredients.