Chapter Eighty-Nine: Set a sky-high price
The liquor blended with "jade liquid" is a high liquor of 52 degrees, although it tastes very smooth after blending, and it is not spicy at all, but the alcohol content has not changed, but it is easier to get drunk unconsciously.
Lin Yi could only pick up Fang Jiayi and run to the third floor, where two rooms were renovated into lounges, which were specially prepared for drunken guests.
By the time Fang Jiayi woke up, it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and when she returned to the second floor in a leisurely manner, all the customers in the store had left, the waiter was cleaning for a living, and Lin Yi, Lao Xie, and Chu Yuanyuan were sitting at a square table in the corner of the hall sipping wine.
"Wake up, drink more?" Lin Yi greeted with a smile.
"I don't drink anymore...... How much did I drink at noon?" Fang Jiayi rubbed her head and said, not that she had a headache after drinking, but that she remembered that she seemed to be pouring wine by herself, and she couldn't help but taste a few sips, and then she couldn't remember anything in a daze.
"How do I know? I guess there's a pot?" Lin Yi said with a smile.
"Are there so many?" Fang Jiayi sat down next to Chu Yuanyuan, and said with a shy face, "It's all your fault, what kind of wine is this, it's so sweet, but it makes people faint all of a sudden, it's too tricky!"
"Haha, in fact, I can only blame you for the amount of alcohol. Lin Yi smiled, seeing that Fang Xiaoting was about to argue angrily, and hurriedly said, "So, I decided to launch a low-alcohol wine next time, which is more suitable for beautiful women to taste, what do you think?"
"Okay, I support!" Fang Jiayi was the first to respond, and then saw that Chu Yuanyuan and Lao Xie looked at her eyes a little strangely, and hurriedly said, "What do you see me doing?"
"It's delicious, and I support it, hehe. Lao Xie took a sip of jade liquor and said with a face full of enjoyment.
"Mr. Lin, do we need to build our own factory to produce this kind of wine?" Chu Yuanyuan asked directly about the substantive question.
Lin Yi had already explained to them just now that this jade liquor was blended by him with ordinary liquor, and the method of blending was of course a secret recipe.
"Of course, we produce it ourselves," Lin Yi said, "and the production process can't use the modern liquor production process, I'm going to brew turbid liquor!"
In the modern liquor brewing process, distillation is used, where the materials for liquor, such as sorghum and wheat, are steamed, fermented with koji, and then directly distilled to produce liquor. The liquor brewed by distillation has the characteristics of clear and not turbid, high alcohol content, and high wine yield.
In the early stage, the method of making turbid sake is similar to the distillation method, but in the final step of the sake, the liquor fermented directly from the lees is filtered out without using a distillation pot, and it is completed. The alcohol content of cloudy liquor is much lower, generally only reaching more than 20 degrees, and the liquor is cloudy, but it is characterized by its aroma and deliciousness, and contains many special aromas that will be lost during the distillation process.
"It's not easy to keep turbid wine, right?" said Lao Xie.
"Compared with distilled liquor, the shelf life of turbid liquor is indeed shorter, but in general, it is not a big problem to put it for a few years. Lin Yi said with a smile.
"Isn't the wine better the older it gets?" Fang Jiayi asked with a frown.
"That's not what I said. Lin Yi said with a smile, "After the liquor is distilled, the raw yeast in it has been inactivated, so the quality of the liquor has been stabilized, and if it is stored for a long time, there will be some enzymes that can enhance the taste and continue to multiply, making the taste better." However, cloudy sake is different in that there is raw yeast still alive in turbid wine, and it will continue to ferment the liquor, and the taste of the liquor will change after a long time, and it will be so sour that it cannot be drunk at all. However, it is also possible to heat the wine to 60 or 70 degrees, inactivate the raw yeast, and then carefully seal the bottle, and the storage period can be extended to two or three years. ”
"Two or three years should be enough, if you only sell it in our store, it doesn't matter how long the storage period is. Fang Jiayi said, and couldn't help but want to drink a little more, but thinking that she was drunk at noon, who knew what was going on, so she desperately suppressed this idea, snatched Chu Yuanyuan's chopsticks, and ate a few dishes on the table.
"Do you think that after he makes this kind of good wine, he will only sell it in our store?" Chu Yuanyuan said with a smile.
"Not to mention, it can only be sold in our store for the time being. Lin Yi sighed, thinking about his red lacquer gourd, he could only condense a drop of agar syrup every day, and he could only blend ten catties of liquor, what was this enough for?
Therefore, this kind of wine can only take the high-end route for the time being, and it is available in limited quantities in private restaurants.
At present, there are only eight tables in the private restaurant, and each table only seats eight people at most, that is, there are only one hundred and twenty-eight regular guests at noon and evening every day, and ten catties of liquor is not enough for each person to get one or two!
"This blending method is very complicated, and no one else can help me operate it, and there is no way to guarantee the output. Lin Yi said, "So in the early stage, we don't need to do too much for the time being, just find a small factory nearby, and the wine made can only be supplied to our store." ”
"Only supply our store?How much sales are there, and you can't lose money?" Fang Jiayi said with chopsticks.
"A pot," Lin Yi picked up the fine porcelain wine jug and said, "Five thousand yuan, it shouldn't be too expensive." ”
"Five thousand, how many times more expensive are you than Moutai?" Fang Jiayi shouted.
A bottle of Moutai is packed in one catty, and the market price is fifteen, while Lin Yi's jade liquor costs five thousand for half a catty and a pot, and one catty is ten thousand, which is six or seven times more expensive!
"Then which one do you think is delicious?" Lin Yi smiled.
"Yes, of course...... This is delicious!" Fang Jiayi finally couldn't help it, snatched Chu Yuanyuan's cup, drank it in one gulp, and then shouted unconvinced, "But Moutai has brand value!"
"This is undeniable," Lin Yihan said with a smile, "If we also have a brand as big as Moutai, you won't be able to drink this pot of five thousand......"
Although Lin Yi is not fond of alcohol, he has also seen the market, the kind of foreign wine that costs tens of thousands of dollars, under Lin Yi's taste, it is just like that, where can it compare to the jade liquor he blended? They can sell tens of thousands of bottles, why can't we Chinese wine? As for the brand, the big deal is from now on, buddy will create a brand by himself!
"I'm in favor of opening another winery," Chu Yuanyuan said, "but we don't have any money now......
"Uh......" Lin Yizheng was very ambitious, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but feel bitter again.
This time, the four-story building was built, but a lot of money was spent, especially the decoration, which directly drained the company's working capital. If you want to build another winery, you can't get down without tens or millions!
Well, it seems that I can only make do with the brewing in the kitchen first......