Produção de aguardente utilizando mel de rejeito de abelhas (Apis mellifera) africanizadas.

Abstract

The production of an alcoholic beverage using bee discarded honey is an alternative to making better use of surplus honey production, reducing production losses, and adding value to this product. Consequently, the aim of the study was to produce and characterize a mono-distilled and bi-distilled spirits of descarted honey and to evaluate its physicochemical characteristics during the time in barrels of Umburana. Therefore, it was used discarded honey of bee of the genus Apis mellifera, submitted to physicalchemical characterization. A Complete factorial design was used complete factorial design was used to verify the influence of input variables with 3 yeast types (granulated yeast, fresh yesst and CA-11) and different concentrations of soluble solids in the initial wort (14, 16 and 18 ºBrix) with a soluble solids content equal to 16 ºBrix as the best response with the use of granulated yeast over the ethanol conversion percentage of the beverage. During the kinetics fermentation, the cell viability was determined according to counting live and dead cells, as well as monitoring, through the decay of the reducing sugar and increase in the concentration of etanol. The distillation process was conducted in copper pot still and the distillate stored in barrer of umburana barrel where it remained for 6 months, for rest, period in which physicochemical evaluations of secondary compounds were carried out regarding volatile acidity, copper, aldehydes, esters, higher alcohols and metanol, using gas chromatography analysis at time 0 and 180 of the rest period. It is concluded that it was possible to obtain a distillate and a bidistillate of discarded honey. Recarding the spirit process, the bi-distilled have significantly reduced total acidity, volatile acidity, reduced copper content, higher alcohols, and reduced total secondary componentes. Therefore, this bidistilled beverage has better chemical quality, being a beverage in compliance with the official standards of identity and quality required by current legislation.