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Carnivale 8.5

Velho Barreiro Cachaca

Maderia
Crème de Passion

Lemon Sherbet

Orinoco Bitters
Passion fruit

Tropical/Sweet/Refreshing dandy

By a stroke of complete luck, we land in Rio de Janeiro just in time for their festival of

lent. I have discovered that there are over two thousand different names for the local
sugar cane distillate and in a pique of madness, I accept a wager from my travelling
companions to find them all by the end of the Rio Carnival.

A week of unprecedented debauched excess ensues with the local cane spirit having me
firmly in its grasp.

I eventually return at the end of Carnivale a gibbering wreck, naked and bedecked in a
headdress of a thousand feathers.

Of all the multitude of spirits I have sampled, the only one I can remember is ‘Bafo-de-
Tigre’ or tiger’s breath which is precisely how my mouth felt the next morning.

Inspiration. - The Bon Vivant’s Companion - Prof Jerry Thomas (1862)

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