Friday, December 23, 2016

VEFA BOZACISI since 1876

Vefa, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°00'54.9"N 28°57'30.2"E / 41.015252, 28.958401

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Hadji Sadık Bey (our grandfather) came from Prizren, Albania to Istanbul in 1870. During those years, he saw that around 200 shopkeepers of the townspeople produced and sold boza as a dark-coloured, sour-tasted, juicy-thick beverage.

He experimented with a different technique in that period; and today’s thick, straw-coloured slightly-sour flavour, which is given at the moment when fermentation bubbles are newly formed, became the first signature of the brand.

He promoted the boza, which he produced through his own means in the cellar of his house, by circulating it in copper billycans that he carried on his shoulders around the Palace and its surroundings at winter nights for six years.

Being impatiently waited for at each corner, Hadji Sadık Bey took heart with the increasing demand. He opened the first official business of boza product in September 1876 in Vefa, one of the most distinguished neighbourhoods in Istanbul where dynasties, aristocrat families and bureaucrats of the era resided.

The boza shop that was opened in Vefa was named “Vefa Bozacısı” (Vefa Boza Shop), and this ancestral beverage was both standardised and made into a profession, maintaining its continuity for generations. Hadji Sadık Bey produced this special, sought-after Turkish beverage himself for many years in order to maintain its thickness and flavour. Taking along his son, Ismail Hakkı Vefa into business in the later years, Hadji Sadık Bey continued production in Vefa Bozacısı together with his son.

Started by Hadji Sadık Bey and maintained by family members of the 4th generation today, boza production is continued according to Turkish standards by preserving the traditional palatal delight.

Production
Boza is produced in our factory in Vefa district and the production of the pomegranate and lemon sauces is made in our modern factory in Çorlu, with high technology. The storage, production and filtration areas were established with Frings Fermentation system in our factory where bottling is made in automatical filling lines untouched by human hands and maximum hygiene is applied during the production. Each product whose production is completed is packaged under the supervision of experienced chemists and food engineers after the laboratory tests are completed and they are distributed after these processes.

Vefa Boza
The conservation conditions of boza are very important because it is a fermented beverage made of millet semolina, water and sugar and where beneficial food bacteria live. Because of this reason, it is sold in special packages. Great care should be taken of hygiene and the sterilized environment during its bottling process.

It embodies vitamins B1-B2-B3-B6-B12 and Lactic acid. It does not contain Gluten; people who have celiac disease can consume it. A glass of Boza is 200 cc and it has 186 K/cal. Its protein amount is 2.4 %, its fiber rate is 4.08 % and its fat rate is 0.2 %.

Other Products
Grape Vinegar, Apple Vinegar, Balsamic Vinegar, Pomegranate Sauce, Lemon Sauce, Ottoman Syrup, Tamarind Syrup, Grape Juice, Lemonade with Mint, Lemonade

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WEB SITE : Vefa Bozacısı

MORE INFO & CONTACT
E-Mail : vefa@vefa.com.tr
Phone : +90 212 519 4922
Fax : +90 212 512 9054

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