Pineapple Caipirinha
A fruity and refreshing cachaça cocktail ∙ Muddle ∙ 3 min ∙ 18.6% ABV ∙
The Pineapple Caipirinha is a Caipirinha with pineapple muddled in: cachaça, fresh lime and sugar, served over crushed ice.
Ingredients
1
Servings
Garnish
Instructions for 1 serving
- Pre-chill a glass
- Cut half a Fresh lime into wedges and drop into the glass
- Add Powdered sugar 3 bsp (or 15 ml sugar syrup) and muddle
- Add Pineapple 1/2 slice and muddle again
- Add Cachaça 60 ml and stir until the sugar dissolves
- Fill the glass with crushed ice and stir
- Top with more crushed ice and serve with a stirrer
Tips
- Stir the cachaça with the muddled fruit until the sugar fully dissolves before adding crushed ice; undissolved sugar stays gritty at the bottom of the glass.
History
The Pineapple Caipirinha is one of many fruit variations of the Caipirinha that bartenders adopted as the drink spread beyond Brazil; no creator is documented. Muddling pineapple with the lime gives a sweeter, more tropical drink on the same cachaça-and-sugar base.
The Caipirinha is Brazil's national cocktail of cachaça, lime, and sugar. Its origin is disputed: one account places it in the interior of São Paulo state in 1918, as a home remedy for the Spanish flu, while another traces it to 19th-century farmers in the Piracicaba region.
FAQ
What is in a Pineapple Caipirinha?
Half a fresh lime, 3 barspoons of powdered sugar, half a slice of pineapple and 60 ml cachaça. It is a Caipirinha (lime, sugar, cachaça) with pineapple muddled in for extra sweetness and fruit.
How do you make a Pineapple Caipirinha?
Muddle lime wedges with powdered sugar in the glass, then muddle in the pineapple. Add the cachaça and stir until the sugar dissolves, fill with crushed ice and stir, then top with more crushed ice and serve with a stirrer.
