Avaliação das características físico-químicas da cachaça industrial e artesanal comercializadas no centro norte paranaense

Abstract

The cachaça is a brazilian drink, better known as the samba and soccer. It is the second most consumed alcoholic beverage by Brazilians, second only to beer. The production is divided into cachaça (coming from distillery) and industrial rum (distillation column), where both gain more and more domestic and foreign markets. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of cachaça handcrafted and industrially in the central northern Paraná, through physico-chemical measurements of volatile acidity, alcohol content, pH, copper, higher alcohols, aldehydes, esters, furfural and methanol, and to assess statistical differences between the origin of the drink for the compounds studied. Three samples were collected from rum distillery, identified according to the city of origin, ie, Jardim Alegre, and Ivaiporã Lunardelli; cachaças were also collected from three industrial establishments, called by New Thebes, and Arapuã Ariranha Ivaí. Regarding the parameter aldehydes and volatile acidity 83.3% of the samples had values within the law, for the determination of copper content 33.3% had values unacceptable, for the quantification of the GL, higher alcohols, esters, furfural and methanol 100 % of samples were in accordance with borderline values. Of the compounds evaluated in this study, the origin of the drink (craft - industrial) differed statistically for volatile acidity, aldehydes and alcoholic to drink craft and higher alcohols and esters for the industrial. Copper, furfural and methanol did not enter this correlation, since their results were obtained from third-party laboratory, it is not possible to perform statistical tests. It was concluded that the handcrafted cachaça in the region together with the state of Paraná compared with current legislation for the analyzed parameters, their quality is not fully in accordance with established values, except for the drink Ivaiporã. Regarding industrial cachaça were all consistent with the established standards.