Chapter 229: Bacchus (B)

It was the spring of '97, and the Fifth Ring Brewery ushered in the upcoming market season. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoIn the past two years, with the deepening of reform and opening up, the business ideas of state-owned enterprises are undergoing profound changes. Wuhuan Beer is a real time-honored brand in Beijing, which was born at the beginning of this century and has been around for more than 90 years now. It is one of the oldest beer brands in China.

Speaking of which, Wuhuan Beer can be regarded as having experienced ups and downs. Originally, its name was Heersheng, it was founded by two men who went to the eastern part of the country to sell coolies in Tsarist Russia, earn some money, and returned to Beijing, initially it was not to produce beer, but a soda factory.

The shopkeeper of Heersheng is sincere, the equipment for brewing wine is imported from the Czech Republic, hops are bought from Germany, the best rice in the river for grain, and even the water is inspected for most of the city of Beijing, and a deep well with sweet water is dug outside Guang'anmen. It is precisely because of the good quality of Heersheng beer that it has slowly become a brand in the market. It won the gold medal of the World Exposition, and after liberation, it was personally designated as the wine for the state banquet by Premier Zhou, which can be said to be unique for a while. In the 80s, after the reform and opening up, Heersing changed its name to Wuhuan Beer, and Beijing Beer each occupied half of the Beijing market.

But the real rapid development of Wuhuan Beer is still in the past seven or eight years.

When ordinary people are rich, they like to get two bottles of beer when they go to restaurants on the streets, have family gatherings on weekends, and even watch football games at home. The beer sales of the Fifth Ring Brewery have doubled every year in the past two years. Liu Huacheng, the director of the factory, is also a well-known bold and courageous man, and his development steps are naturally larger than those of ordinary state-owned enterprises.

Just the year before last, Wuhuan Beer acquired seven or eight local breweries in Hebei, Tianjin, Shenyang and Taiyuan, and Wuhuan expanded its scale and reduced production and transportation costs, and local breweries were willing to use the well-known brand of Wuhuan. It can also use the funds of Wuhuan Brewery to solve the development problem, which is naturally an instant hit, and Wuhuan Beer has become the leader of China's beer industry as soon as it turns around.

But the rapid development will also bring some side effects, the production capacity of the Wuhuan Brewery is not enough, the equipment appears to be aging, and the management capacity cannot keep up. In the rapid development, a handsome man covers up a hundred ugliness, and the sense of distress is often the most lacking in enterprises in that era. But Five Rings Beer still made some efforts. They built a new factory in Huairou, and the old factory, which was originally located outside Guang'anmen, took half a year to completely renovate and spent a huge amount of money to purchase a full set of brewing equipment imported from Germany, ready to produce China's most high-end beer in the old factory.

Unexpectedly, the problem lies in these imported equipment.

In the spacious and tidy fermentation room, six storage tanks three meters high and more than two meters wide are neatly arranged. The German equipment is the most advanced equipment in the beer industry, and just look at the shiny stainless steel casing, the flashing color indicator console, and the all-metal escalator that spirals up the tank.

The fermentation of high-end beer is divided into three stages: pre-fermentation, full fermentation and post-fermentation, which takes 60 days. The whole fermentation process is completely sealed in the fermentation tank, in order to give the fermentation bacteria a constant temperature and humidity living environment. This process can take more than 20 days longer than ordinary beer, it is said that the beer brewed has a natural malt fragrance, and the taste is mellow, although it is slightly bitter when it first enters, but it is very sweet in the throat, authentic German recipe, pure Bavarian taste.

But after all, it is the first time to import all the equipment, the factory attaches great importance to it, not only all the raw materials are imported, the brewing master is also invited by Germany, Liu Huacheng is afraid that the water quality will affect the taste, so he deliberately spent a lot of money to transport the spring water from Xishan, filled a can, and opened the deep water well that has been sealed in the old factory for many years, and filled a tank with well water, just to try which water has a better effect.

When the cans were just filled, Master Xin, a retired sommelier from the factory, came to the factory to take a look, just smelled the hops and tasted the deep well water, and came to the conclusion that there was no problem, and it would definitely be able to brew a first-class product. Seeing that the day of leaving the tank is approaching day by day, the workers in the factory are becoming more and more excited and excited.

But in the past few days, Uncle He, who is responsible for cleaning the workshop in the factory, is faintly worried. He always smelled a faint fishy smell in this workshop. At first, I thought it was a dead rat in the workshop. Although the factory was renovated last year, as long as there was a nest of rats here, and they were moved away when the house was repaired, you repaired it, and it will be moved back again.

Uncle He carefully walked around the workshop, but he didn't find a single mouse hair. But where does this smell come from?

On Sunday morning, Uncle He went to the workshop to clean as usual, and as soon as he entered the door, he felt that the fishy smell was much stronger than the previous days, and he could feel that it was not coming from the corners of the workshop, but like the tall brewing tanks in the middle. Uncle He secretly screamed in his heart, if there is a problem with the sealing of the brewing tank, this jar of wine will be wasted, although Uncle He has not gone to school, but he also knows that this jar of wine has seven or eight tons, which is more than 100,000 yuan.

Uncle He didn't care much about it, and called the old dog who was guarding the door in. His dog, to be inferred according to the age of the person, is also the same age as himself, but his nose has not degraded at all. It circled around the jars, stopped in front of the innermost jars, and screamed twice.

Uncle He didn't dare to delay and called the factory security office. Director Zhang of the security department smelled the stench as soon as he entered the door of the workshop, didn't ask anything, turned around and ran out to call Director Liu.

In less than half an hour, all the heads and brains of the factory entered the workshop, and even the German expert was not left behind. Uncle He, a German expert, is often met in the factory, in his fifties, tall and strong, with golden hair, as if he grew up drinking beer since childhood. The name seems to be called Zenid or Borg, and everyone can't call him well, so they call him your big neck, which is really as good as his name.

You sniffed around the workshop with your big neck, pointed to the brewing tank that the yellow dog had identified, and nodded, looking sad, but grunting a lot. Director Liu's secretary translated it for everyone, which means that it is the smell of this jar, but it must be that the valve is not closed when storing the wine, otherwise even if the wine inside is spoiled, it will not be smelled outside, and this is definitely not the taste that can be produced by the deterioration of wine.

Everyone thinks that your big neck is very reasonable, but Director Liu is aware of another problem, this wine has been brewed for almost 60 days, if the top cover is not closed when the wine is filled, it will have deteriorated long ago, will it only have a taste now? Someone must have secretly opened the top cover a few days ago. But the taste of this raw liquor, which has not been precipitated, filtered, and seasoned at a later stage, is not acceptable to ordinary people, so who would do this? Could it be that people from competing companies are deliberately trying to find out information? This is too bizarre, isn't it?

But anyway, you have to climb up to it and take a look. At this moment, the workshop director Da Lin's face was like ashes, and he kept muttering, "Impossible, after pouring wine, I, Li Yong of the Technical Department, and Xiao Zhang of the Quality Inspection Department have all checked one by one, and the top cover is well sealed, how can I be angry?"

Of course, to go up and check this matter, he must take the lead as the workshop director.

The lid is located directly above the vat, and although the tank is only three meters high, the escalator spirals up the arc of the tank, and there are at least twenty steps to go up. People can't see the top cover on the ground. The escalator is made of stainless steel, and Dalin's weight is not light, and every step he takes is a bang, which shocks people's hearts to beat faster. But Dalin walked more and more slowly, as if his pace was extremely heavy. Director Liu knew that it was estimated that the further up he went, the bigger the smell.

It took Dalin to cover his nose for a minute before he finally climbed to the end of the escalator, and at this time, Dalin's face was a little green, and his muscles were all clumped together, looking extremely hideous. He lifted the top cover with great difficulty, and in the loud sound of metal, Director Liu's heart sank.

In order to ensure the sealing of the brewing tank, the top cover is designed like a ring handle like a closed air hatch in a submarine, which has to be turned in place more than a dozen times before it can be opened. And Dalin didn't turn the ring handle at all, so it was obvious that the top cover was false.

After the lid was opened, Dalin didn't make a sound, covering his nose with his hand. After standing on the small platform for more than ten seconds, it seemed that he had done a fierce ideological struggle, and then he took out a flashlight from his back butt pocket and slowly shone it in from the top cover.

Suddenly, as if he had been punched in the face by something in the wine tank, Dalin fell backwards violently, and the flashlight flew down, almost hitting the head of your big neck. And Dalin was quite agile, and in the midst of the crisis, he grabbed the railing with one hand. Director Liu seemed to have a hallucination at that moment, and when Dalin's body hit the railing, he felt that the brewing tank shook violently twice, of course, with the weight of the brewing tank, it was impossible.

Dalin knelt on the small platform, his body seemed to be stuck in the railing, and he couldn't cover his nose at this time, constantly pounding the iron plate of the platform with both hands, and kept vomiting in his mouth. The cloudy juice poured down the cracks in the platform, and everyone present began to stomach at the same time.

Dalin gasped for half a minute before he shouted hoarsely: "Factory director, there are dead people inside, and there is a worker from our factory." ”

(When a husband and a misfortune come, man is born by himself; when a blessing comes, man becomes his own.) Misfortune and blessing are the same door, benefit and harm are neighbors, and non-holy people can not be divided. Mortal actions must first be judged by their knowledge and rules, and then dare to make plans, whether they are beneficial or harmful, and the reason why this foolishness is different. Knowing nature is wise, knowing the cardinal of survival and death, the gateway of good and evil, and using it, those who are drowning in distress are invincible. So that those who know what they are doing will be feasible, and there will be no way to reach it in the world. He is the one who knows, the gateway to good and evil, and the one who moves, and the cardinal who is interested. The change of Pepsi and the chaos of the country will be completed later. That's why those who don't drown in trouble become successful, and why they can't be careless. --"Huainanzi")