Comments on: Quick Review: CachaÃ§a

By: Cachaca Dave

Cachaca Dave — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:21:35 +0000

LOL take ZG’s word for it and pass the Cuervo instead.

The problem I’m having in PA is that my “distributor” (read: the people that are supposed to be marketing it in your state) just isn’t pushing it. Why? We’ll I suspect that their management wants them to sell the “other” brand that they carry (not Pitu). Which ounce for ounce is MORE expensive than Mae De Ouro. ):

By: Cynthia Closkey

Cynthia Closkey — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:02:54 +0000

Pretty please, can I be on the Tasting Panel?

By: ZG

ZG — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:39:40 +0000

As a brazilian, I would say PitÃº is one of the worst cachaÃ§as in existence. Undrinkable, nastier than gasoline. Try a Piragibana.

By: Dr. Click

Dr. Click — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:01:50 +0000

Knowing almost nothing about cachaca, I claim that your experiment is probably tantamount to declaring tequila undrinkable after one shot of Cuervo.

By: rlink

rlink — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:31:29 +0000

I was amused by the Grey Kangaroo link posted by Cynthia. They demonstrate using the device to filter Georgia Moon corn whiskey, a vile spirit for which I have a special place in my heart. You see, it is one of two ingredients in a drink I like to call the Brown Paper Bag. If you mix it (in standard whiskey and cola proportions) with Dr. Pepper, the resulting cocktail tastes exactly like licking a brown paper grocery bag.

There is a reason I’ve had the same jar of the stuff for almost a decade now, complete with Mr. Yuk sticker on the lid.

By: peterb

peterb — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:18:09 +0000

Green Forest still has no liquor license.

By: Nat

Nat — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:29:41 +0000

Is Green Forest serving liquor again? I went there last year, and they (temporarily?) had no liquor license and appeared to be solely BYOB.

It was kinda disappointing, ’cause I used to like their sangria and caipirinhas a lot.

By: Christina Schulman

Christina Schulman — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:50:20 +0000

I recommend finding out what they’re using in the caipirinhas at Green Forest, and buying that.

(I have no problem with Pitu for mixing caiprinhas at home, but it never would have occurred to me to try it straight.)

By: Cachaca Dave

Cachaca Dave — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:14:35 +0000

LOL Sometime I should post a picture of the NY Beverage Media (lists 90% of the products sold here in fine print) versus the PA Beverage Media (lists everything sold in your state). NY’s is about an inch and a half thick, PA’s is less than a quarter inch thick.

By: peterb

peterb — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:58:10 +0000

Dave,

I will take you up on this challenge. Just as soon as I finish writing an article about how much it irritates me that I can’t place SLOs on the PaLCB’s web site.

Thanks for the offer. Perhaps we’ll see if we can find some Alert Readers to form a tasting panel.

-Peter