Ypióca Group
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Ypióca Group is a Brazilian traditional manufacturer of cachaça located in the state of Ceará. The Ypióca Group consists of 7 companies and has other business activities like mineral water production and farming.
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[edit] Production of the Cachaça
The Group has five production plants, with its own fields for production of sugar cane, located in the countryside of the states of Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte.
In the transformation and distillation of the sugarcane the Ypióca Group uses technology imported from England and Scotland. For the ageing the group uses the traditional wooden barrels.
Ypióca Group uses four lines of automatic machines for bottling the final product.
[edit] Products
The Groups have many products, most of it uses the name Ypióca followed by a name (like Ypióca Gold, Ypióca Crystal, Ypioca 150 etc...). Sapupara is the name of another famous product of the Group, being sold with the names Sapupara Ouro (gold) and Sapupara Prata (silver).
There is also namy others products like mixed drinks (Ypióca Limão, Sapupara Limão), wines (Catuaba Garanhão and Catuaba Vinhagrinha) and Naturágua, a famous mineral water brand in Ceará.
[edit] Trivia
The Ypióca Group have, at its Cachaça Museum, the largest wood barrel of the world, with capacity for 374 thousand liters.[1]
[edit] External links
- Official site - (It starts in Portuguese but can be changed to English).
- Ypióca´s Cachaça Museum Site
