WOOD CHIPS AND CACHAÇA AGING
Recently, Brazilian legislation authorized the storage of cachaça in contact with wood fragments. However, the practice was admitted exclusively for producing an alternative cachaça, different from the aged one, and the differentiation must appear on the label, with words the same size as the brand of the drink. The objective of this work was to evaluate the differentiation between stored cachaça containing wood chips and cachaça aged in wooden barrels. Samples of oak chips were kept in contact with freshly distilled cachaça in glass containers for eight months.