Blue Rook Cachaca

Blue Rook Cachaca is the original unaged cachaça from Blue Rook Distillery in Danville, Kentucky — a family distillery the Baeker family founded after falling for the caipirinha on a 2011 trip to Salvador, Brazil. It starts as 100% Brazilian sugarcane — freshly pressed cane juice rather than molasses — double pot-distilled in a copper alembic still, cut with spring water from Brazil's Serra do Mar mountains, and bottled unaged at 80 proof (40% ABV) in a 750mL bottle: the clear cane spirit itself, never rested in wood. It is available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor.

• Proof / ABV: 80 proof (40% ABV)
• Size: 750mL
• Style: Unaged cachaça (Brazilian cane spirit)
• Base: 100% Brazilian sugarcane, freshly pressed
• Distillation: Double pot-distilled in a copper alembic still
• Water: Cut with spring water from Brazil's Serra do Mar
• Distillery: Blue Rook Distillery, Danville, Kentucky

Born in Brazil, Raised in the Bluegrass

Cachaça is Brazil's national spirit, distilled from fermented fresh sugarcane juice instead of the molasses behind most rum — which is why U.S. labels file it as Brazilian rum. Blue Rook flips the map: the cane and the spring water come from Brazil, while the copper still and the distillers sit in Danville, Kentucky, five minutes from Wilderness Trail in the heart of bourbon country. The Baekers built the distillery to bring the cane spirits they discovered in Bahia back to Kentucky, and this unaged cachaça — the distillery's original bottling, and the spirit behind the caipirinha that started it all — is that idea in its purest form: nothing between you and the cane but copper and spring water.

Tasting Notes

Bottled unaged, Blue Rook pours crystal clear and tastes like the cane it came from. Expect fresh-pressed sugarcane up front, a grassy, green brightness through the middle, and a citrus lift over a clean, lightly peppery finish — the classic profile of an unaged copper-pot cachaça, with no wood in the way. Browse more rum and cane spirits or see everything from Blue Rook at Del Mesa.

How to Enjoy

Start with the drink that built the distillery: a Caipirinha. Muddle half a lime, cut into wedges, with two teaspoons of sugar (or 1 oz simple syrup) in a rocks glass, fill with crushed ice, add 2 oz of Blue Rook Cachaca and stir. The bright, grassy cane character also makes it a natural in any classic rum cocktail that wants a fresher edge — a daiquiri built on it drinks vivid and green — and well chilled, it sips clean on its own.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is cachaça?
Brazil's national spirit, distilled from fermented fresh-pressed sugarcane juice. Unlike most rum, which is made from molasses, cachaça keeps the bright, grassy, earthy character of the cane itself. In the U.S. it is labeled as a style of Brazilian rum.

Is Blue Rook Cachaca made in Brazil or Kentucky?
Both, in a sense: the sugarcane and the spring water are Brazilian, and the spirit is distilled by Blue Rook Distillery in Danville, Kentucky.

Is Blue Rook Cachaca aged?
No. This is the distillery's original unaged bottling — it never rests in wood — bottled clear at 80 proof (40% ABV).

What does Blue Rook Cachaca taste like?
Fresh sugarcane, grassy and green notes and citrus brightness, with a clean, lightly peppery finish — the cane-forward profile unaged cachaça is known for, and exactly what a caipirinha is built on.

Order Blue Rook Cachaca online from Del Mesa Liquor and have a taste of Brazil by way of Kentucky delivered to your door.