13. Open fire and brew!
Liujia Village in the early morning, to be honest, is really beautiful.
Mountains are everywhere, and the crisp green makes the whole world vibrant.
A small river, the water is crisp to the bottom, and there are countless fish and shrimp in the river. The sound of the river made the entire Liujia Village begin to come to life.
In fact, most people in the countryside get up very early, because it is officially a busy season.
Early in the morning, smoke was already rising everywhere. I don't know whose dog is barking non-stop.
I don't know whose big rooster it is, who is pulling the chicken's neck and shouting.
From time to time, you can still hear some cars passing by. Today happened to be the market day in the town, and many families were going to the town by car.
Some go to sell some things to subsidize the family, and some go to buy some household goods and the like. Halfway up the mountain, on the red sand, there is a man dancing in a dung bucket and singing as he walks.
Some of the strange songs here can be heard clearly under the mountain because of the geographical location.
Liu Ming's distillery is not far from the road, and there is a mountain on his left, and the same is true on his right.
Liu Ming's winery is located at the entrance of such a canyon. At this moment, Liu Ming's winery has already begun to get busy.
In more than a month, Liu Ming can be regarded as having memorized all the steps of winemaking. And today, it's to prove his craftsmanship...... Ahem, it's time to prove that his golden finger is good.
When I got up early in the morning, Zhou Wenchun and the other three workers had already come over.
Liu Ming was not verbose, and immediately took out incense and yellow paper and other things, and asked everyone to start worshipping after lighting them.
Well, the first is the god of wine, on the Zhuo jar, after a stick of incense was lit, several people began to say a few words.
After the god of wine, it is the lord of the land. This is not to say, no matter what you do, you must not respect the lord of the land!
All four sides of the house were incensed. And in the end, that's when we get the god of the stove.
Kaizhuo sake brewing must be done by burning a fire. Therefore, the god of the stove is also inevitable.
"The god of the stove blesses, the four seasons of the year, the fire is prosperous!
Don't think it's superstition, it's just a common comfort in the heart. For example, when making movies, many people will turn on the camera and worship God when they make movies.
This is not related to superstition, because they worship God but do not believe in God.
"Wenchun!"
Liu Ming's voice fell, and Zhou Wenchun, who had been following behind, hurriedly ran forward
。 "Boss Liu, what's the matter?"
"Take out the firecrackers, let's set off the firecrackers!"
"Okay, I'll get it now!"
A few minutes later, the earth-shattering sound of firecrackers from Liu Ming Distillery completely woke up Liujia Village, which was still half asleep.
The crackling sound made countless people look at Liu Ming's place curiously.
No one knows that the giant of the whole world in the future will now open like this.
No one could have thought of it, and Liu Ming himself couldn't have imagined it.
Because he didn't want to make wine in the first place, but there was really no way but to gamble like this.
Nearly one million in arrears, three years later may be one million, which is an astronomical amount for the vast majority of people in the entire Qinglong Town.
……
The first fire of the distillery must be lit by Liu Ming.
After Liu Ming lit the fire, he handed it over to Zhou Wenchun.
The job of burning the fire, Zhou Wenchun has no problem alone. If he can't do it, he can get out of it tomorrow.
In the past few days, in the entire Liujia Village, there are still people who have sent corn over one after another.
Therefore, Liu Ming's corn here has exceeded 15,000 catties. However, according to his current production of about 500 catties of wine per day, it will not take long for this corn to last.
After the fire burned, Liu Guangdou and Liu Jianguo began to clean the Zhuo cylinder.
Be sure to wash it with boiling water several times, otherwise it is not good to have dirt inside.
About an hour later, everything was done, and water was put in the tank.
Next, the pot is topped with a specially made buckwheat. There is no way, the top of the Zhuo cylinder is a cylindrical shape of aluminum Zhuo cylinder, and below is a huge special cauldron.
Corn must not enter the pot, otherwise how will it be scooped up at that time?
That's why there's a buckwheat that separates the corn from the pot.
Corn on top and water below. At the edge of the pot, there is an outlet, and here is where the water is placed.
The corn is put in first, which is particular. Corn is the least easy to cook, so put it in and cook it first.
When the water is boiling, turn off the heat and wait for half an hour, half an hour until the rice comes in, another hour and then pour in the sorghum.
This is the brewing method of lotus white, and it is also the easiest pre-production step.
The initial steps are very simple, as long as there is relevant data, you can quickly grasp it.
It wasn't until one o'clock in the middle of the day that the water in which the corn was boiled hot. At this moment, Liu Ming immediately arranged for Zhou Wenchun to cover the fire in the stove with wet coal mixed with yellow mud.
This step is very important, basically once the fire in the winery stove is lit, it will generally not be extinguished unless it is a special case.
It can't be helped, it takes too long and is too cumbersome to start a fire.
How good it is now, after covering it, it can generally ensure that the fire will not be extinguished for ten hours.
Tomorrow, when you want to use it, you only need to smash it open, put a few dry firewood in it, and the fire will start immediately.
After sealing the fire, there is a long waiting time. At this time period, nothing else needs to be done.
After waiting for about half an hour, Liu Ming arranged for them to pour the rice into it.
This is the local rice here, which is not expensive and good. Therefore, this rice is very suitable for sake brewing.
After the rice was poured in, the lid was immediately closed, and then an hour later, Liu Ming and the others poured the sorghum into it again.
Liu Ming's pot is a thousand catties. That is to say, the amount of corn is 700 catties, sorghum is 200 catties, rice is 100 catties, and finally there is the need for 50 catties of various fruits.
Fruit is not mentioned for the time being, because it is not needed now. At this time, there is actually more than half of the pot at most.
After all, this cauldron, Liu Ming made it according to the amount of two thousand catties of grain. After everything is done, there is basically nothing to do today.
"Boss Liu, can we do this? Rice, sorghum and corn, put these things in together, it's really a bit of a ......?"
Liu Guangdou questioned, after all, he was not a novice. In the past, there was a winery in the village, and there were many places to stay.
But in the end, the proprietress of the distillery ruined her reputation by urinating in it for others to drink.
In the end, the good side really didn't work and closed it. Back then, he had been making wine in it for a while, but he had never seen it before.
Liu Ming looked at Liu Guangdou's swarthy face and smiled, and then did not explain to him.
"Alright, it's okay now, let's wait for the water to be released. ”
Putting water is to put away the water in the pot to cook food. If you soak the grain in boiling water, you have to have enough, right?
This is a saying, generally we call it flowering. What is flowering?
Use corn as a standard and look at its head.
As long as the corn head bursts a bit like popcorn, but there is no popcorn as exaggerated, just cracked, it's fine.
As for why......