Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Winemaking Experiment
The things of the ranch are now going on in an orderly manner, and Jinyang is also very busy during this time, raising chickens and planting tea trees, but there is another important thing that Jinyang has not done, that is, winemaking.
Drink is a very important part of Jinyang's plan, and wine is the most important, although there is no one on the ranch who can make wine, but this is not a reason to stop Jinyang from implementing the plan.
Previously, Jinyang had asked John and others to plant 100 acres of various grains and other winemaking raw materials in the ranch, just for this purpose, at that time they just wanted to brew it and drink it themselves, but now Jinyang has a more ambitious goal - to sell the wine brewed from his ranch to all over the world.
But this has to be implemented step by step, Jinyang plans to try to brew some wine by himself first, whether it is beer or liquor or something, anyway, brew some first and taste it, see how it tastes, if it is really very good, then you can start the next step.
Start with the first step and learn how to make wine.
There are John and them in beer, and many of them can brew beer, so Jinyang is not worried about beer, and he has no intention of learning it, anyway, he is not ready to be an all-round superman. What Jinyang intends to learn now is how to make baijiu.
First downloaded some videos and studied and watched them carefully, and after watching it a few times, Jin Yang felt that it didn't seem to be so difficult, so he decided to start brewing, anyway, even if it doesn't work out once, we can have regret medicine, hehe.
Driving to the city and buying three medium-sized wine steamers, several ceramic jars, instruments for measuring alcohol content, koji, etc., Jinyang found a suitable corner in the large warehouse of the ranch and started his own winemaking plan.
After the things are bought, the first thing is the preparation of the materials, and the materials Jinyang plans to use ordinary rice, so that it can be universal, and then there are a number of large koji, and then there are three ceramic jars and three medium-sized wine steamers.
First of all, put the rice into the space spring water to soak, the water for brewing is very important, the effect of using the space spring water will be much better than ordinary water, but the space spring water must have a ratio, if it is a mass production, Jinyang can not put the space spring water, this must have a ratio, so Jinyang prepared three wine steamers.
Since three parts are to be brewed, everything is divided into three parts, first of all, three parts of rice of ten catties each, respectively put in pure space spring water, one-thousandth proportion of space spring water, one-ten-thousandth of space spring water soaked in it, until you pinch it with your fingers and there is no white core inside.
Then take out one of the servings and put it in a pot to steam, and the water used to steam the rice is the same as the water used when soaking, so that you can observe and compare. Jin Yang pouted his ass and sweated profusely, this winemaking work is really not easy at all, I hope we can make the ideal wine, otherwise we are not busy in vain?
"How did the ancients come up with this method of making wine? It's so cumbersome, can't you just put everything together and let it ferment? Why do you spend so much effort? I'm tired to death. Jin Yang poured boiling water into the steamer, and muttered depressedly, steaming rice is still so troublesome, let's try it with a big pot this time.
After a while, the rice was finally steamed, and Jin Yang quickly poured all the rice on the prepared table, took an electric fan to blow at the rice ball, and he used big chopsticks to disperse the rice ball vigorously, so that it could cool down to the temperature he wanted.
Seeing that the rice was almost at a temperature of about 30 degrees, why did Jinyang take out the koji prepared in advance, first mix the koji with a small ball of rice, and then mix it with the "big army".
"Doesn't it look very simple in the video? Why is it so difficult to get into my hands? Mixing rice is more tiring than planting tea trees before, by the way, when it comes to planting tea trees, where did this overlord and Duoduo run today? I said why do I feel so strange today, it turns out that these two 'followers' are missing. I'll have to look for it later, these two are the masters who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles, so it's no good that they haven't moved for a long time?" Jin Yang muttered to himself, deciding to find those two uneasy guys after getting these damn rice in a while.
After a while, it took more than half an hour for Jinyang to mix this rice with koji, and this was the result that this guy Jinyang didn't want to make it anymore, he was too tired.
Then put the mixed rice into the ceramic jar prepared in advance, dig a hole in the middle, and check whether there is scattered rice on the rice jar, and if there is, get it down quickly, otherwise it is easy to mildew, and finally cover it with a layer of film and press a piece of paper shell, so that the first phase of the work is completed.
"God, how come there are still two more copies to be made here? Hey, if it weren't for the sense of accomplishment in the wine I brewed, I wouldn't have done this hard work. "Depressed is depressed, work still has to be done, but practice makes perfect, the next two parts are a little easier to do, but it still takes a lot of effort.
After these are loaded, they should be allowed to ferment for 24-36 hours, and then they will be opened and added with water, which is about 1.2 to 1.5 times that of raw rice, but this work can not be done until at least tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
"Ah, it's finally good, it's so rare, Uncle Ben can even think of making wine, right? Oops, damn it, how did you forget to film all the process just now, such a good opportunity, hey, a wise man must have a mistake in a thousand thoughts, forget it, forget it. Jin Yang stretched his waist and said.
This guy is regretting missing out on the best pretending material, but the phone under his hand is not idle, and he keeps shooting. After taking the photos and looking at the rice fermenting in these three porcelain jars, Jinyang always felt as if something was missing.
"Yes, this can't just have liquor, after a while, my mother and little sister can't just have liquor, and you have to have some fruit wine or something, well, that's it. Jin Yang suddenly realized, and then seemed to think of something, and after carefully looking at the people around him, he excitedly entered the space.
The space has changed quite a lot now, except for the previous upgrade, the biggest change is those fruit trees. Patches of fruit trees have become fruit groves, each with a small piece, I don't know how many there are, lush, pleasant flowers, fruity aroma, the small saplings that sprouted from seeds before have grown into big trees under the effect of space.
These trees are already full of all kinds of beautiful flowers, the little bees are diligently busy in the flowers and hives, happily picking delicious and sweet nectar on the flowers, and the charming fragrance of flowers rushes into Jinyang's nose from time to time, reminding him that this is the delicious nectar of the future.
The old trees that were planted at the beginning are now full of fruits, full of fruits bent the branches, eager to hang down to the ground, the bright red as if to flow out of the juice of the big fresh peach is particularly attractive, the yellow mango is also rushing to the head, as if luring others to eat it, Jinyang even saw some fruits overwhelmed and fell to the ground.
It is a waste to use so many fruits, no wonder those bees did not produce much honey before, and this has grown into fruits that have not bloomed, where does the honey come from? Fortunately, now that there are new fruit trees blooming, most of these fruits still have to be used, just leave a little enough to eat.
Jinyang decided to refer to the brewing method of the famous monkey wine to make the most primitive fruit wine, anyway, there are too many fruits in the space to eat now, and it doesn't hurt to try it. Jin Yang first dug a hole in the trunk of a peach tree with a diameter of nearly two meters near the root of a particularly thick peach tree.
This peach tree should not die under the effect of space, and even if it dies, it will not rot anyway, so it is suitable for experimenting with making monkey wine. Authentic monkey sake is naturally made by monkeys.
Legend has it that the monkeys in the mountains picked the fruits in a cave (usually a tree hole) to store the overwintering grain, but if there is no shortage of overwintering food in the season, the monkeys will forget that they have stored a hole of fruits, and then the fruits in this cave will gradually ferment, and then make a hole of fruit wine.
This kind of wild brew is really a coincidence, and the real monkey wine is worth a thousand gold. Even when the ancient environment was not destroyed, there were many trees and fruits in the mountains, and monkey wine was an unattainable thing, and the emperor could not ask for it if he had no chance.
Monkey wine, is the monkey chose the empty tree to store the fruit, that must be enough to ensure that the fruit does not rot in winter, how many trees, but also hollow, but also sealed......
Therefore, monkey wine is simply something that can be encountered but cannot be reached, and the so-called monkey wine now is a fruit wine made after several fruits are broken and then artificially fermented, which is very different.
The real monkey wine only exists for one season, and with the passage of time, the liquor gradually decreases, and it is even more difficult to get the monkey wine! Moreover, the monkey wine is the best when it is first fermented, and the essence of the fermentation of the fruit is gradually dripping, which has not been rotten, but only fermented.
But after dripping, the liquor has a talking point, the first drop is the fruit liquor, and the gathering is called the hundred fruit brew, and when there is no juice dripping, there is a wine taste after collecting all the fermented juice, it can be called monkey wine, or monkey brewing.
Jinyang is not a monkey, and there is no coincidence, but Jinyang has space and space for fruits, so it may not be impossible to make a truly delicious "Jinyang brand monkey wine".
The hole in the tree is quite large, and it can probably store about 100 catties of fruit, but I don't know how much wine these can make. Anyway, Jinyang divides these fruits into different types and staggers, such as putting a layer of peaches, then a layer of dates, and then mangoes, grapes, and kiwifruit, so that they are piled up layer by layer, and a thin layer of yeast is placed on top without a layer, which is more conducive to fermentation, and Jinyang does not have so much time to wait.
In addition to these, each layer of Jinyang will also brush a layer of space honey and some petals scattered on the fruit trees, so that the taste will definitely be better after brewing, and the layers will be richer, so that they will be piled up layer by layer in order, and Jinyang will bee up the tree hole with a film, so that the Jinyang brand "monkey wine" in the tree hole will be considered a preliminary success, and the next thing is to wait for it to ferment naturally.
Considering that there are many family members, maybe there will be a lot of friends and guests in the future, and this "monkey wine" is definitely not enough to drink, Jinyang decided to brew more, so he dug nine tree holes again, and brewed a total of ten tree holes of "monkey wine". Fortunately, in the space, these don't need Jinyang's real hands, just rely on ideas, otherwise Jinyang will not be able to complete so much work if he is really tired.