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 ...
How is cachaça made?
It would be nice to say that I alone, as a gringo, have figured out the way that cachaça is made. But since it’s been produced for hundreds of year...