Cachaça Folklore
In English, for the most part, we like to get right to the point. I don’t mean to imply that we don’t have our own euphemisms or various ways of ex...
Cachaça: life over a barrel, Part One
Before embarking on this adventure, I’d, of course, consumed cachaça. But, like many things we use or consume, I hadn’t paid much attention to the ...
The Cachaça Revolt
Though they took very different paths to nation-statehood, Brazil and the US share certain historical similarities. In the US, the Whisky Rebellion...
Drinking the history of a people
An Original Work by Gastrofelicidade aka Alfredo Luiz; Translated by Peter Banks At times we need to stop. A rare thing in this meat grinder that i...
Cachaça leader Dirley Fernandes
There are a few people that nearly everyone in the cachaça community points to as essential to bringing the market to where it is today. And not al...
A Conversation with Marcel Rates
Several years ago, just after I arrived in Brazil, I decided I wanted to write about cachaça. Of course, I knew nothing about cachaça. So, I did so...
Fighting the Stigma of being a Cachaçeiro
As far as I know, no one knows how old cachaça is. It’s difficult to pin down an exact year for its creation given the lack of recordkeeping. But, ...
The Cachaça Bible: Saving a Sinner's Soul
There aren’t a lot of books about cachaça that are in English. In fact, I don’t think I’d come across one book that has the intention of educating ...