Alambiques e Alquimistas é o título de um livro que retrata as antigas destilarias de medronho algarvias, cujo processo corre o risco de se perder, em nome da modernização, da legislação e da fiscalização.
E foi justamente por causa deste livro, que a pedido de um pai, levámos a sua família a passar da teoria à prática e a conhecer uma destilaria, bem como todo o processo de fabrico da aguardente de medronho. Produto único, que não se faz em mais lugar nenhum do mundo, é uma das actividades mais genuínas das serras algarvias.
O fruto, colhido no Outono, é destilado entre Dezembro e Março, num alambique de cobre, num ambiente de cheiros intensos, a fumo, a álcool, a esteva, rodeado de copinhos antigos de vidro grosso, para provar a aguardente, pauzinhos para agitar o líquido e calcular a graduação, balanças de álcool com escala de Cartier e de Gay Lussac, entre outros instrumentos e apetrechos que lhe conferem uma determinada mística.
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Alambiques e Alquimistas (Alembics and Alchemists) it's the title of a book that reflect the atmosphere of the old distilleries from Algarve, whose process is in danger of being lost in the name of modernization, legislation and inspection.
And it was precisely because of this book, which a parent brought his family to move from theory to practice and cognize a distillery, as well as the entire manufacturing process of the arbutus spirit. Unique product that is not done anywhere else in the world, is one of the most genuine activities of the hills of the Algarve.
The fruit, harvested in autumn, is distilled from December to March, in a copper alembic, in an environment of intense smells, smoke, alcohol, rockrose, surrounded by antique small cups of thick glass, to prove the spirit, sticks for stirring the liquid and calculate graduation, scale Cartier and Gay Lussac, among other instruments and paraphernalia that give a certain mystique.
And it was precisely because of this book, which a parent brought his family to move from theory to practice and cognize a distillery, as well as the entire manufacturing process of the arbutus spirit. Unique product that is not done anywhere else in the world, is one of the most genuine activities of the hills of the Algarve.
The fruit, harvested in autumn, is distilled from December to March, in a copper alembic, in an environment of intense smells, smoke, alcohol, rockrose, surrounded by antique small cups of thick glass, to prove the spirit, sticks for stirring the liquid and calculate graduation, scale Cartier and Gay Lussac, among other instruments and paraphernalia that give a certain mystique.
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