Brazilian Drinks
Caipirinha is Brazil’s national cocktail, made with cachaca, sugar and lime. Cachaca is Brazil’s most common distilled alcoholic beverage. Like rum, it is made from sugarcane. This particular drink is enjoyed by everyone; restaurants, bars, and many households throughout the country. Once almost unknown outside Brazil, the drink has become more popular and more widely available in the recent years, in a large part due to the rising availability of first rate brands of cachaca outside Brazil. The International Bartender Association has designated it as one of their Official Cocktails.
Of the common beer brands, Antarctica and Brahma are generally the best selections of beer. Chopp is a pale blonde pilsener draft beer, and stands pretty much at the pinnacle of Brazilian civilization. The incredible variety of Brazilian fruits makes for some of the most divine sucos (juices). Every town has plenty of juice bars, often offering thirty to forty different varieties of fruit drinks.
Cafezinho (coffee), as typically drunk in Brazil is strong, hot and sweet. It is served as an espresso sized shot with plenty of sugar, but no milk. Caufezinho is served often and at all times of the day just about anywhere you want it; caufezinho will be served to you. It is sold in stand up bars and dispensed free from any large thermoses in any restaurants and hotels.
Refrigerantes (soft drinks), are found everywhere and are cheaper than bottled water. Guarana champagne made from the fruit of an Amazonian plant, is about a popular as Coke products in America. It is cold, carbonated and sweet, and the fruit has all sorts of supposedly marvelous properties, so you can tell yourself that it is healthy, too.
Then of course you will always have water; the Brazilians have a specialty water called coconut water. This beverage is very popular in Brazil as well. No one really ever has to worry about their thirst when your in Brazil. Brazil will always be able to provide almost any type of drink a person could possibly want. The variety in any category is unbelievable, so do not worry about your thirst while you are in Brazil.