Ingredients

  • 1½ ozcachaca
  • 1 ozaperol
  • ½ ozelderflower liqueur
  • 🍋Expressed orange peel(garnish)

🔧 Tools

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Instructions

  1. Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
  2. Shake well for 10-12 seconds.
  3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice cubes.
  4. Express an orange peel over the glass to release the oils and use as garnish. Serve immediately.

📜 History

The Canaflor — whose name evokes the sugarcane ("cana") and flower ("flor") at the heart of the recipe — pairs Brazil's native spirit with two European aperitivo ingredients: Aperol, the Italian orange bitter liqueur, and elderflower liqueur, which contributes a light floral sweetness. The drink appears in Difford's Guide's authoritative list of the 20 best cachaça cocktails, where it is described as rust-colored and bittersweet with cachaça and elderflower. It represents the modern wave of Brazilian bartenders using their national spirit as a base for aperitif-style cocktails, bridging the Brazilian and European drinking traditions.

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