Stopped in the NH candy store and bought a bottle of Beleza de Minas Gold Cachaca, Brazilian "Rum." 14$ and 86 proof for the fifth, not bad.
It's distilled from sugar cane rather than molasses, and it sure as hell isn't Rum. A fragrance of cucumber and inner tube, a taste between rotten cabbage and agave. It's potent all right, but it needs abundant lemon and sugar as the recipe for a caipirnha on the back label recommends.
Maybe Cachaca is an "acquired taste."





