Chapter 34 Reviving Artisanal Winemaking
The leading master is called Shen Aniu, who is in the same village as Chen Heming, because he is in his 50s and does not want to go out to work, so he stayed in the second winery.
This time, he has a new boss, and he is still from the same village, and he feels that there is hope, and the people of the same village should not treat him badly.
Although the kid in front of him called himself Uncle Niu, he was always a small boss, so he had to introduce it seriously.
"The brewing process of old liquor is roughly divided into these steps: sieving rice, soaking rice, steaming rice, spreading cold, falling cropping, main fermentation, raking, fermentation after filling the tank, wine pressing, clarification, blending, and frying wine.
The main brewing time is not now, it is too hot now, and if it is mechanical brewing, it can be produced all year round, and there is no temperature limit.
Due to the low temperature in the wax month, the glutinous rice is not easy to deteriorate when soaked in water, and the low temperature can ensure the slow fermentation of the old wine, so as not to be too high and the wine quality is easy to become sour. There are also no mosquitoes in winter, which can avoid the deterioration of rice wine contaminated with mosquitoes. β
Shen Aniu introduced carefully, Chen Heming was also like a primary school student, holding a pen and constantly remembering, while Chen Qianer was looking east and west in the workshop, looking interested in everything.
"Uncle Niu, can you introduce me to the tools you use to make old wine in the factory now, I don't see a few machines. β
"Hey, almost all of the brewing tools in our factory are old objects, which were specially collected by the old long factory in that messy era, and the collective factory has been allowed to set up factories for more than eight years, and this set of tools has been taken out and reused.
Later, after the old factory director bought this distillery, he had no extra money to buy machinery, so he kept using these old tools to produce rice wine, and the output has not been able to rise. β
Like the West Wind Distillery, as soon as the digester, saccharification tank, fermentation tank, and still are installed, the output will go up slowly, and hundreds of thousands of tons of wine can be made a year, which is really rich. β
Shen Aniu is not without envy, and the high output means that the income of employees is also high.
Saying that, Shen Aniu opened a warehouse, and there were a lot of wine-making tools stacked in it, because the front of the winery was almost in a state of shutdown, and it was also summer, and these tools were stacked together at random.
Shen Aniu thought that the little boss wanted to register all the property, so he carefully introduced the past:
These tools are called clay pots, wine jars, straw pot covers, rice sieves, steaming barrels, bottom barrels, bamboo rakes, wooden rakes, large strokes, small strokes, wooden hooks, wooden shovels, buckets, funnels, wooden presses, frying pots, and pots. β
Almost all of them are decades old, and many of them existed before liberation. Chen Heming saw the words "Longchangxing" in front of a press, it should be from the Republic of China or the late Qing Dynasty, and couldn't help but shake his head, these are all treasures.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the Chinese people only wanted to modernize and discard all traditional crafts. For example, Shaoxing rice wine brewing, the whole process of automation and mechanization has become the common goal of all rice wine enterprises.
After fully automated, the production of rice wine will be cheaper, and the profits will be higher, and those traditional rice wineries will be beaten to the ground and unable to survive.
Of course, Chen Heming is not against mechanization, which is also the inevitable path of social development and the natural law of survival of the fittest.
But the taste of rice wine produced by the machine is completely different from the taste of hand-brewed rice wine.
For example, in his previous life, Chen Heming once read a report:
The traditional process of producing rice wine is fermented with thick mash, high-density yeast and high-density bacteria, which is a special factor that forms the richness and complexity of the flavor of rice wine.
Therefore, for yeast fermentation, pay attention to a "cooked ground", that is, the yeast has been accustomed to the workshop environment, air, temperature, etc., and every time a new koji is made, the yeast in the microbial community on the cooked ground will naturally enter and maintain an original taste. The brewing process and environment of traditional Yuezhou rice wine cannot be changed at will.
Scientific studies have shown that the yeast strains of koji naturally fermented by traditional technology in cooked fields can reach more than 50 strains, while there are only 2~3 yeast strains produced by mechanized production, which is one of the main reasons why the taste of mechanized rice wine is worse than that of rice wine produced by traditional technology.
Chen Heming asked his sister to call his parents over, and asked Shen Aniu to call all the teachers and workers who were left behind, announcing some of his decisions.
In the face of the remaining 20 or so people, most of them were not very energetic, so they decided to cheer up.
"Uncles and aunts, everyone is almost a neighbor, and they all know my parents, I am Chen Heming, the son of the big boss, the small boss of this factory, everyone take care of me. β
Suddenly, Chen Qianer was shouting: "I am also a small boss." β
The laughter also buffered the awkward atmosphere just now.
Chen Heming laughed and continued:
"People come to work in the winery for money. Our Chen family bought the distillery for money. So everybody's goal is the same, you want high wages, we want high profits. Next, please all work together to do a good job in the factory, hello, hello, β
Everyone chuckled again.
"We are a small factory, and we will definitely not be able to run a big winery, and as soon as the machine is turned on, the old wine flows like tap water. What should we do if our factory doesn't have a machine? I decided to go against their big factory, that is, the whole process is handmade, the old wine is boutique, and the wine making process is made public.
Handicraft is easy for everyone to understand, that is, we don't use machines, all use traditional old craft to make wine. I don't want to be productive, but the quality must be the best, the best of all the old wines, and I have mastered a new process and have a way to do it.
The wine-making process is made public, that is, we have to make some of the wine-making steps public, and there will be many tourists to visit, so we will let them see how our Shaoxing old wine is brewed, and even some links can be tried by tourists themselves.
So the first thing we have to do now is to ask everyone to take out all the brewing tools in the warehouse and clean them, so as not to break them, because these things will go to the museum in the future.
This year, we have not yet reached the time for winemaking, and we have to make some changes and changes to the plant. If you are willing to stay, we pay you a basic salary for these months. When the month officially starts in full swing, I promise that I will increase everyone's salary. β
When all the workers heard this, they were relieved, after all, their craft only made wine, and the factory went out of business, either to a far away place or to lose their jobs. Everyone wants to work from their doorstep, conveniently and affordably.
After the meeting, the family of four returned to the office building to discuss the next things together.
The first thing is to come up with a name for the new brewery, including the future restaurant, which also has to have a strong name.
Chen Qianer liked the name the most, and a few names that only new humans understood kept popping out of her mouth: "What is the water ice moon rice wine, the masquerade dance restaurant", hearing Chen's father, Chen's mother and Chen's brother's face black.
Or Chen Heming made a suggestion, doesn't my mother like that old song very much,
"The spring water dingdong, the spring water, the spring water, the dingdong, the spring water, where you go, where you go, singing songs, playing the strings, flowing into the distance. β
When Lu Weihong heard his son humming this song, he knew his intentions, "spring water", his PokΓ©mon.
"So it's better to call our hotel 'Spring Water Ding Dong' in the future, this name is easy to remember and good, and then our hotel can also let the "Spring Water Ding Dong" as a representative song in the store to play, and the advertising song can also be used in the future.
As for the famous brand of rice wine, it can also be named "spring water". Other people's names are either mountains or winds, so let's have water. β
Father Chen thought it was good to hear it, and the people who came over in that era had a special affection for old songs.
And Chen Qianer raised his mouth again, and sat there with silence to resist.
My own brother's dirt bun, what is the name is not good, I took such a dirty name, my head is definitely watted, I got into the water, and I want to see the problem.
In the end, it was discussed again and let Shen Aniu be the temporary person in charge of the winery. In the same village, they are also related to Shen Siyu's family, and they also have the highest prestige among the remaining workers in the factory, so they will try it for a few months before talking.
After discussing everything, my mother was going to the hotel again, and my father followed the accountant and lawyer to discuss some things about the new company, including trademark registration, license tax changes, etc.
Chen Heming took his sister and continued to walk room by room, constantly thinking about how to design this 25 acres of land in order to maximize the use of space.
Although the money for winning the lottery is tens of millions, at least 20 million is used to buy stocks, and you must be careful in your calculations.
Which buildings can be preserved, and which ones need to be demolished and rebuilt, you need the help of professionals. The eldest brother is helping him contact and inquire about the news, and he must be fully prepared on his side.
Yuezhou University has a "School of Architecture and Art Design", but I don't know if there is anyone during the summer vacation, and I have to trouble the second brother again.
It's good to be small, and be taken care of everywhere.
After a few days, the handover of the distillery was completely completed, and Xiao Hua didn't have the heart to deal with the 1,000 jars of wine in the warehouse, so he took the initiative to ask for 10,000 yuan and left, and continued to gamble.
But after all, she is a fellow villager, and Lu Weihong can't take advantage of this, so she quietly gave Xiao Hua's wife 50,000 yuan, and asked her to keep it herself, don't tell the loser.
Chen Heming looked at a jar of rice wine, like an altar of gold.
I immediately drove to the Affiliated Hospital of Yuezhou University, found a few 20cm puncture needles from the instrument room, and paid for them in order not to embarrass President Chen.
A person hid in the warehouse, first filled the 50cc syringe with the ancient spring water in the space, and then used a 20cm needle, like a chest puncture, into the altar cover, until the innermost palm leaf was penetrated, and all the ancient spring water was injected into it, and immediately sealed with plastic cement.
Open a needle-sized hole and immediately seal it with plastic mastic, the maximum possible air does not enter, will the wine be sour, is there a magical chemical reaction?
Let's try it.