Rum is one of the most well-known and widely consumed liquors around. Whether you want to sip on a tart daiquiri or a tropical hurricane, or even if you want a sophisticated spirit-forward ...

First things first – cachaça is pronounced “ka-sha-sa”, the Brazilian Portuguese word for rum. Technically, it is a type of rum, as it is also a spirit made from sugar cane by-products.

Rum drinkers will find cachaça to have a familiar taste. Both are distilled from sugarcane, but cachaça is made from fresh cane juice, while rum is usually produced from molasses (which is cooked).