CACHAÇA/DEFINIÇÃO: MUST LEAVEND AND DISTILLED OF THE SUGAR SUGAR CANE WORD CACHAÇA IS OF CONTROVERSIAL ORIGIN. SOME VERSIONS GIVEN FOR RESEARCHERS: OF THE CASTILIAN CACHAZA, WINE THAT WAS DONE OF IT SPLODGES OF GRAPE; OF THE AGUARDENTE, THAT WAS USED TO SOFTEN THE MEAT OF PIG (CACHAÇO) AND THE SOUR GARAPA, TAKEN FOR THE SLAVES AND CALL FOR THEM OF CAGAÇA.
In the attempt to improve the quality of the sour broth taken by the slaves, the destillation process was initiated then, giving origin to cachaça. This passed to be consumed in the too much social classrooms and turned current currency, concurring with the after-wine and the wine of Portugal. With the fall of the commerce of its drinks, the Portuguese cut forbade to the production and the consumption of cachaça. After some years, due to control and necessity of verge for the reconstruction of Lisbon, destroyed for the 1755 earthquake, the cut decided to liberate and to tax the production. Although the prohibitions, of the preconceptions, the taxes and the perpetual problems faced for the producers, since Brazil colony, cachaça resisted, blunting currently as one of the appreciated and vendidos distilled ones more in the world.
The old Egyptians give the first signal. Some diseases cure, inalando vapor of perfumed and leavend liquids, absorbed directly of the peak of a kettle, in a closed environment. The Greeks register the process of attainment of ácqua ardens. The Water that catches fire - burning hot water, appears in the registers of the Treated one to the Science written for Pliny, the old one, that it lived between years 23 and 79 after Christ. It counts that apanha the vapor of the cedar resin, of the peak of a kettle, with a woollen piece. Twisting the fabric the Al is gotten kuhu. The burning hot water goes for the hands of the Alchemists who attribute it místico-medicinal properties. If it transforms into water of the life. The Eau de Vie is prescribed as to elixir of the longevity.
Aguardente then goes stops of the Europe for the Middle East, for the force of the expansion of the Roman Empire. They are the Arabs who discover the equipment for the destillation, fellow creatures to that we know today. They do not use the Al word kuhu and yes Al raga, originating the name of most popular aguardente of the South Peninsula of Asia: Arak. One aguardente mixed with liquors of anise and degustada with water. The production technology is spread for the old and new world. In Italy, the distilled one of grape is known as Grappa. In Germanic lands, if it distills from the cherry, kirsch. In the Escócia the Whisky, distilled of the sacarificada barley is popular.
In the extreme East, aguardente serves to esquentar the cold of the populations that do not manufacture the Wine of Grape. In Russia the Vodka, of rye. In China and Japan, the Sakê, of rice. Portugal also absorbs the technology of the Arabs and distills from the grape bagasse, the After-wine. The Portuguese, motivated for the Spanish conquests in the New World, launch it the sea. In the will of the exploration and the attempt to take ownership of lands discovered in the side west of the Treated one to Tordesilhas, Portugal brings to Brazil the Sugar cane of Sugar, comings of the south of Asia. Thus they appear in the new Portuguese colony, the first nuclei of povoamento and agriculture.
The first colonizadores that had come to Brazil, appreciated the Portuguese After-wine and the Wine d' Oporto. As well as the feeding, all the drink was brought of the Cut. In a device of the Captainship of They are Vicente, between 1532 and 1548, discover the wine of sugar cane of sugar - Sour Garapa, that is to the relento in cochos of wood for the animals, coming of the tachos of rapadura. It is a clean drink, in comparison with the Cauim - wine produced for the indians, in which all cospem in an enormous adobe cauldron to help in the fermentation of the maize, is given credit. You of Device they start to serve the such broth, called Cagaça, for the slaves. From there it is a pull to distill the Cagaça there, being born the Cachaça.
Of the middles of Century XVI until half of Century XVII " houses to cook méis" , as he is registered, if they multiply in the devices. The Cachaça becomes current currency for purchase of slaves in Africa. Some devices start to divide the attention between the sugar and the Cachaça. The gold discovery in the Minas Gerais, brings a great population, coming of all the cantos of the country, that constructs cities on cold mountains of the Mountain range of the Espinhaço. The Cachaça brightens up the temperature. Bothered with the fall of the commerce of the Portuguese After-wine and the wine in the colony and alleging that the Brazilian drink harms the withdrawal of the gold of the mines, the Cut forbids to some times the production, commercialization and until the consumption of the Cachaça.
Without results, the Portuguese Metropolis decides to tax the distilled one. In 1756 the Aguardente de Cana de Açúcar was one of the sorts that had more contributed with taxes directed toward the reconstruction of Lisbon, abated for a great earthquake in 1755. For the Cachaça some known taxes are created as subsidies, as the literary one, to keep the facultieses of the Cut. As symbol of the Ideals of Freedom, the Cachaça covers the mouths of the Inconfidentes and the population whom the Mining Plot supports. The Aguardente of the Land if transforms into the symbol of resistance to the Portuguese domination.
With passing of the times the production techniques are improved. The Cachaça is appreciated by all. It is consumed in palacianos slap-ups meal and mixed the ginger and other ingredients, in the Portuguese religious parties - the Quentão celebrity. In the last century it is installed, with the coffee economy, the abolition of the slavery and the beginning of the republic, a great wide e preconception to that he was relative to Brazil. The fashion is European.
In 1922, the Week of the Modern Art, comes to rescue the brasilidade in the fields literary and of the plastic arts. In elapsing of our century, the samba is rescued. It turns the carnival. In these last decades the feijoada one is valued as special Brazilian food. The Cachaça still tries to undo preconceptions and to continue in the way of the verification of its quality. Today, some marks of high quality appear in the national and international commerce and are gifts in the best restaurants and residential cellars for Brazil and the world.
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