Yibai Xiaobai calmly replied, "Using plum blossom snow water is only the first key step in making this wine, if I guess correctly, there is a second very important step is the special cellaring method." ”

A male guest was confused and casually asked, "Little brother, what do you mean by the special cellaring method?"

Some male guests seemed to have understood what Bai Xiaobai meant, and asked rhetorically, "You mean that the rice wine is brewed and then stored in a special place?"

Bai Xiaobai said, "That's right, it is to make alcohol fermentation and concentration more mellow." ”

During the banquet, someone immediately asked: "Baijiu can generally be stored for a few years to become fragrant, but this rice wine is not high in degree, so it is not easy to cellar, right? ”

Someone else said more directly: "Cellaring can make the fragrance of plum blossoms stronger, which is too fake." ”

Although this little brother is very sure, this statement is still not credible. ”

After hearing Bai Xiaobai's statement, all the guests really didn't dare to agree with his opinion.

In fact, Bai Xiaobai's words have not been finished yet.

He went on to explain, "You can cellar it if it is puree wine, not only white wine, but also rice wine. If the wine tastes sour, it is a failure of cellaring. ”

The guest who said just now that rice wine can't be cellared, heard Bai Xiaobai's direct rebuttal, and said more and more unpleasantly, "Then what do you say about Chenlao's rice wine is so special that it has this special plum blossom fragrance." ”

In the face of the guests' questions, Bai Xiaobai's face was calm, and he talked eloquently, "The cellar points of general rice wine are mainly divided into three types: underground, cave and semi-underground wine cellar. In my opinion, Chenlao's sake is fermented in a cellar hidden underground, and this cellar is located under a plum blossom forest. ”

Bai Xiaobai's words caused criticism from the guests.

"This Bai Xiaobai is too capable of pretending, as if he made wine, the wine he cellared, and said it so sure. ”

"Don't say it, although this kid is pretending to be forced, he does have some real knowledge. ”

"Bullshit knowledge, this Bai Xiaobai can brag better than the old Wang next door to my house. According to him, as long as the wine jar is buried under the plum blossom forest, there is such a strong plum blossom wine fragrance, then I bury the wine jar under the osmanthus forest, there is the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, and so on, Lao Tzu himself can make flower wine, and those manufacturers of flower wine have long since closed down. ”

"There's a bit of truth to what you say, listen to what this kid says. ”

The two middle-aged male guests couldn't get used to Bai Xiaobai from before they were served, because the sky-high prices of Xiaobai's restaurant really scared the two of them.

Therefore, the two of them couldn't help but whisper a few more words in private.

Bai Xiaobai naturally couldn't hear their private criticism.

He just wanted to put his thoughts on the table.

If you guess right, you can get a valuable agarwood bracelet, and it's not a shame to guess wrong, anyway, the previous guests guessed wrong, not worse than him.

The host Chen Chen didn't say a word, he looked at Bai Xiaobai very seriously, and his face was a little weird beyond words.

Bai Xiaobai didn't know if his conjecture was correct, he continued to finish the unfinished words at one time:

"I just checked the wine jar of Chen's old rice wine, this wine jar is not an ordinary clay wine jar, it uses a special black clay. ”

"This kind of black pottery is smoked with thick smoke at the later stage of clay roasting, so that the black carbon particles in the smoke penetrate and fill the voids of the pottery, so the final firing product is black. In particular, the best black pottery wine jar, the wall is as thin as an eggshell, known as "eggshell pottery", which is very rare, and the wine jar selected by Chen Lao is this level. ”

"This kind of 'eggshell pottery' wine jar is very different from the general pottery, the biggest feature is that the air permeability is particularly good, which can promote the mellow body of the wine, because there are black charcoal particles infiltrating during the firing process, just like activated carbon, and it can also adsorb some impurities in the rice wine, some miscellaneous bacteria, so that the taste of the rice wine is more mellow and pure. ”

"So to sum up, I think that after making rice wine with plum blossom snow water, Chen Lao used a special 'eggshell pottery' wine jar to fill it, and then dug a special dry small wine cellar under the plum forest ground, sealed the mouth of the wine jar with the old mud of the plum forest, and filled the cellar pit with the old mud of the plum blossom, so that the wine jar could ferment naturally for a long time in the special plum blossom soil environment, and finally achieved today's fine wine. ”

Bai Xiaobai said a paragraph, not as plain as the old pedant, every word he said was sonorous and powerful, and he had a sense of rhythm and tone.

At that moment, the whole banquet was silent, no one was distracted, and everyone stared at Bai Xiaobai.

The above words, even if you look at the words, you can't say them so smoothly.

It's not just about the process of sake brewing, it's also about the sake jar used to make sake clear.

In short, if you don't have real talent and real learning, you will never be able to say such a thing.

There were a few younger female guests who couldn't help but keep their hot eyes on Bai Xiaobai's slightly handsome face.

The two male guests who criticized Bai Xiaobai before had nothing to say at the moment, but they still thought secretly in their hearts at the same time.

This is purely Bai Xiaobai's conjecture, although he said it as if it was true, but if Chen Lao denied it, then what he said just now was nonsense.

The two male guests were thinking.

Only a thunderous applause was heard, which instantly broke the quiet atmosphere.

All the guests followed the sound.

The person who applauded was none other than Chen Chen.

He frowned, smiled, and after stopping his applause, he stretched out his thumb and praised:

"Young man, you're really not simple. I have made my own special rice wine, and I have invited the top tasters in Guangzhou and Guangdong to taste it before, but no one knows the key secret recipe of my winemaking, I didn't expect what you just said to be not bad at all. I Chen Chen don't have many people I admire in my life, young man, you are the only one. ”

Chen Chen used to call Bai Xiaobai Bai Xiaodi, but this time he changed his name to 'young man', which was completely appreciated from the bottom of his heart.

He really didn't expect that this young man in his early twenties in front of him would be so strong, and he really had a bright future.

Bai Xiaobai is actually not a half-ass, he has real power, and since he was a child, he has accumulated too much food knowledge.

Therefore, it is not only a practical kitchen, but also a theoretical hall.

Of course, these ideas about Chen's old rice wine are not groundless, nonsense, and delusional.

He had some insights from the missing chapter of the "Plum Blossom Wine" chapter in the food book "Food Treasures" edited by Yu Yi of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, as well as the conjecture that he finally deduced by synthesizing part of the description of "Dream of Red Mansions", adding his own thoughts.

I didn't expect these ideas to be completely correct.

At this moment, Bai Xiaobai deeply realized that reading more books is indeed beneficial.

Live to learn and read more books in your free time, there is always a day when it comes in handy.

At the moment, most of the guests knew that Bai Xiaobai had guessed the process of making rice wine, and they were all so envious that even the delicious crabs were tasteless.

And it's no wonder.

If you guess correctly, there will be an agarwood bracelet, which rewards all the guests want, and now only a new Bai Xiaobai has taken it.

It's no wonder that people don't get jealous.

However, an elderly male guest sitting on Chen Chen's right hand side said, "Old Chen, this nephew of the Yuanshan brothers is indeed well-informed, but I don't know if he can taste how many years your rice wine has been old?"

The words of this elderly male guest made most of the guests who were almost dead see a glimmer of hope.

Chen Lao emphasized before that it is not only necessary to tell the key secrets of winemaking, but also to tell how many years the rice wine has been aged, and only if the two questions are correct, can you get the agarwood bracelet.

People have selfish intentions, which is inevitable, and what they can't get is often not wanted by others in many cases.

Therefore, among the guests, there are several comic guests at this moment, praying in their hearts.

"Heavenly Spirit, Earth Spirit, Taishang Laojun, your old manifestation, don't let this Bai Xiaobai guess for a few years. ”

"If you can't guess, this Bai Xiaobai will definitely not guess, if you want to say a random number, the probability of guessing at one time is very low. ”

"If this Bai Xiaobai can guess correctly, I will eat shit, he will definitely not guess, this wine tasting does not have more than ten or twenty years of experience accumulation, to guess accurately, unless there is shit luck. ”

It's different, but at this moment, Bai Yuanshan is praying in his heart.

"God, bless my eldest nephew must say yes, if he does, I will go back and give you a suckling pig reward. ”

Bai Yuanshan naturally hopes that the fertilizer and water will not flow into the fields of outsiders, and after Bai Xiaobai obtains this agarwood bracelet, he naturally has a light on his face as an uncle.

Unlike the other guests and Bai Yuanshan, Bai Xiaobai's side was superb, and he didn't say a word during the banquet, and his face was always faint.

He was very much looking forward to Bai Xiaobai's answer at the moment.

These days, Gao Chao and Bai Xiaobai live under the same roof, he knows that Bai Xiaobai has a high attainment in cooking, but he doesn't know what his shortcomings are.

I don't know if my grandfather's rice wine has been aged for a few years, can he say it at one time?

Gao Chao put on a look of anticipation to watch the big show.

At this moment, all the guests focused on Bai Xiaobai, as if this was his exclusive personal performance 'stage'.

But Bai Xiaobai calmly picked up a small half glass of rice wine, took a small sip again, and after a slight pause of three seconds, he finally said the answer in his heart.