It's Chilcano Week!

The flag beverage of Peru , the noble Pisco, has many ways it can be consumed. Traditionally, the Pisco Sour is the most populat cocktail and it is diffused as much inside as outside of the country, nevertheless, there is another pisco native preparation that has many followers: the Chilcano.  The Chilcano of Pisco is a simple drink that is characterized for its delicious flavor and resfreshing qualities. 

This drink is consumed generally by young people during the warmest seasons of the year during social or nocturnal meetings.  The simplicity of its preparation makes it the preferred drink by many hosts, and many bars have developed their own variant.  The Chilcano is prepared combining generous measures of Pisco, rubber syrup, Ginger Ale and lemon juice in a glass with abundant buckets of ice, it is adorned then with slices of lemon.  Some experts mix it also with the increasingly more scarce cherry liquor.

In Lima we can find many places that offer it on their menu.  The varieties are immense, but on this occasion we will touch upon some of the more famous ones.  One of them is the Pisco Bar, located in Miraflores, in the street Cantuarias.  This is a welcoming place to have a few drinks after the office or to celebrate a social event.  Their classic Chilcano is very good, but the main attraction are their creative varieties such as the Chilcano of Chili Pepper, Chilcano of Coke, Chilcano of Anís and many more other ones.

In the Bar Inglés del Hotel Country Club, A traditional bar in one of the oldest hotels of San Isidro, located in front of the Golf of San Isidro, we can enjoy one of the better prepared Chilcanos of the city, moreover it will be able to delight us with its luxury and history

La Antigua Taberna Queirolo It is one of the best-known localities to drink Chilcano.  In the Queirolo the beverage is called “Animal” and the ingredients are carried to the table so that the client prepare it themselves at their own judgment.  The additional ingredients of the “Animal” are the drops of Bitter of Narrowness that is known to have.  The Old Bar Queirolo has two establishments, one in Pueblo Libre and another in the center of Lima, to one block of the Plaza San Martin.

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