The drink is made on the rocks in a tall glass, such as a Collins glass, with a jigger of singani and filled with either ginger ale, 7-Up, or Sprite and often garnished with a slice of lime.
This new combination of singani and ginger ale was called "short fly", a term that in railway slang gives its name to "a temporary rail, usually built around a flooded area, a breakdown or other obstacle".
When the Bolivians heard "Short Fly" they transformed it into "Chuflay".
The name was later Spanishized as "chuflay" by the local populations that came into contact with this drink, which gradually became an emblematic Bolivian beverage.
It is consumed in several regions of Bolivia, such as the departments of La Paz, Potosí, Oruro, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz and Tarija.