Cachaça is a Brazilian liquor made from distilled sugar canejuice. While rum is distilled from molasses, cachaça is distilleddirectly from the juice of the unrefined sugar cane. Prior todistillation the juice ferments in a wood or copper container forthree weeks, and is then boiled down three times to a concentrate.Cachaça is always distilled in such a way that the scent of sugar caneand inimitable flavor typical of rum are retained.
Cachaça is sometimes known as caxaca, caxa or chacha.
Brazil has 4,000 brands of cachaça and the country produces 1billion liters of the beverage per year. It is one of the mostconsumed drinks in Brazil, second only to beer.