Caipirinha is Brazil’s National cocktail, made with cachaça, sugar, and lime. Cachaça, also known as canine, or any one of a multitude of traditional names, is Brazil’s most common distilled alcoholic beverage.
Although both rum and cachaça are made from sugarcane-derived products, in cachaça the alcohol results from the fermentation of fresh sugarcane juice that is then distilled, while rum is usually made from refinery by-products such as molasses.