Cachaça Still

[Manfred M]

Cachaça is the national alcohol in Brazil. It is closely related to rum, which is made from molasses (the remnants that come from refining the juice squeezed out of sugar cane. Cachaça uses the juice squeezed out of sugar cane as the feed to the fermentation process.

This is the traditional 3-stage pot still used to concentrate the alcohol from the fermented sugar juice. Sometimes it is bottled and sold right away (equivalent of white rum) and at other times it is aged in wood or flavoured with local herbs and spices (including coffee and chocalate).

[Shadowman]

Dreaded taste straight from the bottle, but when mixed as a caipirinha heavenly. Nicely captured.

[Manfred M]

Dreaded taste straight from the bottle, but when mixed as a caipirinha heavenly. Nicely captured.

For the unaged stuff, I agree. Give it a few years in a wooden barrel it smooths right out.

You're right about about the caipirinha (a blend of cachaça, lime juice and sugar); a lovely way to spend an afternoon sitting around and soaking in the local atmosphere.

[Shadowman]

For the unaged stuff, I agree. Give it a few years in a wooden barrel it smooths right out.

You're right about about the caipirinha (a blend of cachaça, lime juice and sugar); a lovely way to spend an afternoon sitting around and soaking in the local atmosphere.

Back when you could take bottles on a flight we spent an afternoon looking for a store which sold the liquor, finally found a few dust covered bottles and gave a bottle to a friend who promptly gave the bottle back after tasting.

[pschlute]

I love old copper stills

[rpcrowe]

Nice shot! Lots of great and lots of awful local alcoholic beverages throughout this world. I remember a horrible local concoction in Vietnam that was prevalent in the Mekong Delta and further inland...

[bje07]

Nice composition, nice colors, lights and shadows.