Familiar with Cachaca? Thinking about brewing with it...

[TravelingLight]

I recently had cachaca ("kuh-shock-uh") for the first time. It's a Brazilian liquor made from sugarcane juice, similar to rum. My girlfriend was in Brazil recently and brought some back, along with some fantastic coffee.

I'm getting ready to brew a coffee stout with those Brazilian coffee beans. Moreover, I was planning on splitting this batch and oaking and bourbon-ing one half. But then I started thinking about cachaca instead of bourbon. I was planning on soaking a beerstix or oak spiral in bourbon then adding it to secondary for a while. So essentially I would just use cachaca instead. Any thoughts?

For research purposes, I want to get a good solid base stout and add some cachaca to it to see how it tastes. Anyone familiar with cachaca? I did a search and only saw someone using it in a honey wheat IPA.

 

[luizffgarcia]

I recently had cachaca ("kuh-shock-uh") for the first time. It's a Brazilian liquor made from sugarcane juice, similar to rum. My girlfriend was in Brazil recently and brought some back, along with some fantastic coffee.

I'm getting ready to brew a coffee stout with those Brazilian coffee beans. Moreover, I was planning on splitting this batch and oaking and bourbon-ing one half. But then I started thinking about cachaca instead of bourbon. I was planning on soaking a beerstix or oak spiral in bourbon then adding it to secondary for a while. So essentially I would just use cachaca instead. Any thoughts?

For research purposes, I want to get a good solid base stout and add some cachaca to it to see how it tastes. Anyone familiar with cachaca? I did a search and only saw someone using it in a honey wheat IPA.

I am from Brazil and all i can say about cachaca is, it is our worst liquor. Crappy and cheap as hell, will also give you your best hangover ever, by far

IMHO cachaca has nothing to contribute to a good beer, there is just no refinement, you will not find the qualities you find in a bourbon. Of course taste is subjective, if you do brew this cachaca experiment please post back your findings

 

[TravelingLight]

I am from Brazil and all i can say about cachaca is, it is our worst liquor. Crappy and cheap as hell, will also give you your best hangover ever, by far

IMHO cachaca has nothing to contribute to a good beer, there is just no refinement, you will not find the qualities you find in a bourbon. Of course taste is subjective, if you do brew this cachaca experiment please post back your findings

Thanks for the advice. That's kind of what I was thinking. It is not a pleasant liquor to sip, that is for sure. Oh well, I'll probably stick with bourbon.

 

[Jif]

Stick with bourbon.

 

[singybrue]

Mongster did a video where he added it to a beer, but I think that guy would drink embalming fluid if he could get loaded off it!

 

[freisste]

Put your cachaca into a caipirinha. If you don't mind sugar, they're great.

 

[TravelingLight]

Put your cachaca into a caipirinha. If you don't mind sugar, they're great.

Not familiar with this. Going to do some google fu!

 

[Sailingeric]

I most not have had a good brand because what I have had tasted a lot like drinking grass. Give me some good old Havana Club, should you travel to place that trades with Cuba