Founding Farmers & Cabana Cachaça Celebrate Brazil

FF Mixologist Josh Tugjnyam

On Labor Day Monday (9.07) Founding Farmers Mixologist Josh Tugjnyam appeared on the WUSA9 morning show and prepared the official cocktail of Brazil – the caipirinha – in celebration of Brazilian Independence Day.   FF Chief Mixologist Jon Arroyo is the DC Brand Ambassador for Cabana Cachaça the upscale double distilled Brazilian Rum that is the key ingredient in the caipirinha.  Jon was away on holiday, so Josh stepped in to shake up some great cocktails.   See the video for yourself, and the food demo with Farmers & Fishers Sous Chef Mario Pineda, who prepared the very popular Heritage Truck-style Fish Tacos. No holidays for busy restaurants!

Jon Arroyo Named Cabana Cachaça Brand Ambassador

Cabana Cachaca

Cheers to Farmers & Fishers Chief Mixologist, Jon Arroyo, for being named the Washington, DC region Brand Ambassador for Cabana Cachaça, the finest, purest cachaça in the market today.   As the signature spirit of Brazil, cachaca is coming into its own in the US, not only as a fine rum product, but as a very smooth and versatile elixir, authentic to the core.

At Founding Farmers and at our sister restaurant Farmers & Fishers, Cabana is used to make premium caipirinhas, and a few other special cocktails from Jon’s inspired mixology.  Cabana is handcrafted in small batches, double-distilled in copper pot sills and mellowed for up to nine months in Brasilian jequitiba rosa wood barrels.  Learn more and see how the Brasilians like to live!

Yellow + Blue = Green. Drink it up!

Yellow + Blue great white!

Shout out to Yellow + Blue, the eco-friendly, very tasty, tetra-pak (AMAZING wine in a box!) purveyor and friend of Founding Farmers for their feature in Fast Company this week.   Their interesting white Torrontes, Cafayate, Argentina 2008 and the 2005 Malbec from Mendoza, Argentina are two of our top sellers by the glass, and no surprise – they’re delicious, great pairings for many items on our menus, and from harvest to packaging to the glass, all certified organic wines that are stored in environmentally friendly packaging.  Here’s to drinking green!