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> A caipirinha is not made with rum (which is a molasses distillate),
> but rather cachaca (pronounced cah-sha-sa), which is a Brazilian
> sugar cane distillate.
I think your splitting hairs,Rum is made from fermented molasses or sugar cane.
Molasses here (in the usa) is made from from sugar cane or sorgum.In the
Dominican Republic it's probably sugar cane molasses.I am unfamiliar with the
Dominican rum mentioned but but did drink cahshasa while in Brazil.It is 190
proof and absolutly lethal.