Phoenix is hot, how hot is it, summer temperatures can easily soar to forty degrees. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

So how long is its summer? From mid-June, many areas are still in spring, and summer is already ready for here......

Li Du took Meow to walk around the street for only an hour, and he was already sweating hot.

Meow is even worse, the cat's fur does not have a strong ability to dissipate heat, it is hot and sticks out its tongue, just like a dog, and it doesn't even want to go around in the back, climbing a lush willow tree to hide in the shade and refuse to move.

Mr. Li beckoned and said, "Come, you come down, let's go home." ”

Meow looked at him suspiciously, and continued to learn how to stick out the dog's tongue.

"Go back, blow the air conditioner, you see I can't stand the heat either!" Mr. Li wiped a handful from his forehead, and sweat flew from his hands.

Seeing this, Meow trusted him, slipped down from the tree and quickly got into the backpack, and then opened the backpack with his paws to blow the wind.

This kind of weather requires cold drinks, but Li Du has already drunk several glasses of iced fruit juice, although it is delicious but too sweet, he does not want to consume too much fructose.

On the way back, he passed by a Chinese supermarket, and after thinking about it, he went in and bought some soft glutinous rice, koji and yeast powder for sake brewing, and planned to make some drinks for himself.

He plans to make sour rice sake, which he learned when he worked at a Japanese restaurant in college, a light-alcoholic beverage that is popular in some rural parts of Japan.

The hotel room was not suitable for brewing, so he asked the owner to borrow a kitchen, but Bides was not there, only Nicole, a little girl dressed as a man, wiped the glass.

Li Du knocked on the table and said, "Hey, Nicole, the cup is already clean, why do you have to wipe it?"

The weird-tempered little girl gave him a blank look and said, "This is the bartender's rule, the purpose is to reduce the pressure felt by customers, don't you understand?"

"I don't understand. ”

Nicole snorted and said, "When a customer is drinking, if the bartender doesn't find something to keep busy, the customer will think that the bartender is paying attention to him, and he will feel stressed." Polishing the glass is just to solve this problem, understand?"

"Understood, thank you, but if you're willing to lend me the kitchen, I'll thank you even more. Mr. Li said with a smile.

Nicole squinted at him and said, "You want to cook?"

"No, winemaking. ”

The little girl was a little interested: "Do you still brew beer?"

"No, it's a kind of rice wine, and it takes at least a week for beer to be brewed, so I don't have that much time to spend here. Li Du explained.

The little girl is a half-bartender, she is full of interest in winemaking, and happily agreed to Li Du's request, but asked to come together to bartend.

Li Du said: "It's no problem, but don't you have to look at the store?"

The little girl went to the backyard and whistled, and a big golden retriever came running, and Nicole handed it a bone, and said, "Watch here, OK?"

The big golden retriever nodded happily with a drool, as if he understood her words.

"This dog is well trained. Li Du exclaimed.

The little girl said impatiently: "Of course, Xiaobi is a smart child, let's go, let's go and make wine." ”

Many Chinese immigrants in the United States come from southern China, and most of the Chinese supermarkets are opened by these people, and their hometowns have the custom of drinking rice wine, so there are also special soft glutinous rice in the supermarket.

These glutinous rice are soaked, vacuum-packed, and can be used directly to make rice wine after opening.

There is a big pressure cooker in the kitchen, and after Li Du washed the glutinous rice twice, it looked very clean, and then put it in it and boiled it like cooking porridge.

Nicole looked at it seriously and asked, "How much water?"

"Rice and water are about 1:15. Li Du said, "Now you have to be patient, it is estimated that it will take about an hour and a half to stew." ”

Time needs to be controlled, Li Du will open the pot every fifteen minutes to take a look.

Because of the relatively small amount of water, it slowly boiled into a thick porridge, at this time he turned off the fire, the porridge gurgled in it, and large and small bubbles continued to appear in the porridge.

In about an hour and a half, the porridge was boiled, and at this time the glutinous rice exuded a strong fragrance, and if it was accompanied by a plate of small pickles, Li Du felt that it was a good breakfast.

Cooled, then koji and yeast were added to it, and after mixing well, he added some yogurt.

Seeing this, Nicole pouted and said, "It's messy, it looks disgusting." ”

Li Du smiled and said, "If you know the number of bacteria contained in yeast powder and yogurt, then you will feel even more disgusting." ”

Whether you add yeast powder or yogurt, it is to quickly grow a large number of yeasts, which saves fermentation time.

After mixing well, he placed the pot in the corner of the kitchen and said, "Tell your brother not to pour out the contents, for we will have wine to drink by this time tomorrow." ”

Nicole was surprised and asked, "Is this okay?"

Li Du said: "Of course, do you still think that the procedure is very complicated?"

Nicole stopped talking, and went back to make a sticker and glued it to the pot, with a line of beautiful small words written on it: Whoever moves the old lady in the pot will use the beer bottle to move the head!

At the end of the day, Hans found nothing, and set off again early the next morning, and like a professional spy, he showed a work attitude that Mr. Li couldn't help but praise him.

In the afternoon, Nicole came to him and said, "Twenty-four hours have come." ”

Li Du was reading a book and said casually: "It doesn't matter, you can ferment for another two or three hours." ”

Nicole puffed up and said, "You're not rigorous at all. ”

Li Du saw her expectation, so he put away the book and said, "It's okay now, I'm just for insurance." ”

When I opened the pot, it was like opening a bottle of beer, and a stream of milky white water foamed out, bringing out a faint smell of wine.

Nicole looked excited and said, "I smell the wine, oh yes, it worked!"

Now that the porridge in the pot has become semi-liquid, Li Du strained the porridge with clean gauze and filtered the milky white wine into a large bottle.

Nicole Monkey hurriedly tasted it with a spoon and said with a pout: "Well, it's not delicious, it only tastes like wine." ”

Li Du smiled: "Don't worry, you will say this when it is late." ”

He puts the rice wine in the freezer, a process that allows yeast to break down starch into sugar, increasing acidity, and cooling it to give it a better taste.

As the sun set in the evening, Hans came back with tired footsteps, sweating profusely.

Li Du asked, "Are you okay man? Don't you have to play with your life like this?" Be careful of heat stroke!"

Hans waved his hand and said, "I'm fine, bring me a cold beer!"

Li Du said: "Give you a different drink, it's more energizing than cold beer!"

There was a gazebo in the garden in the backyard of the hotel, and he took out the rice wine and went to the gazebo with Hans and Godzilla, and soon Nicole came with Bids, waiting expectantly to taste the rice wine.

Hans handed the cup over and said, "Let me drink it first, let the heroes drink it first." ”

Li Du was overjoyed: "Did you get the news of the dog's ears?"