Licor Beirão
Licor Beirão é uma marca portuguesa de bebidas, fundada em 1929 em Lousã.
Sobre Licor Beirão
Licor Beirão is made at Quinta do Meiral, twelve hectares in the serra da Lousã, from thirteen aromatic species — plants and seeds — macerated in alcohol for at least three weeks and then distilled twice in Portuguese copper stills. Some of the plants grow on the estate itself; the rest come from India, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Turkey and Malaysia. The water comes from the mountains, and the label with its yellow ribbon is still applied by hand. The story begins around 1890, when a travelling salesman in Porto wines married the daughter of a pharmacist from Lousã, and the couple set up a small liqueur factory, heir to the formulas of the apothecary's shop. The present name only arrived in 1929, in tribute to the II Congresso Beirão, where the liqueur was awarded a prize. In 1940 José Carranca Redondo bought the factory and the secret of the recipe and founded J. Carranca Redondo; it was a son of his, José Redondo, who at 18 wrote the slogan that stuck, "O Licor de Portugal". The company is today in the third generation of the same family, with Daniel and Ricardo Redondo at its head. Beyond the original liqueur, the brand produces Beirão D'Honra, enriched with old grape brandy and made to be drunk without ice, and ready-to-drink canned versions of two of its best-known cocktails — the Caipirão and the Morangão. That comes to close to four million bottles a year, exported to around seventy countries.
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