Chapter 366 Homemade wine
It's better to act than excited, and as soon as the interest came, Wang Yongcai didn't care about eating, and he didn't drink any more wine, so he packed up and hurriedly ran home.
The house was empty, and I don't know what they were doing. But it's good that someone doesn't have to disturb your winemaking business.
It is said that although his godmother is an expert in this area, she has not been edified, but it is the first time to make wine by herself.
For the raw materials of winemaking, Wang Yong did not choose those wine grape varieties that are now very famous. Some of the wines made from grapes in Godmother's winery can't be committed, of course, Wang Yong admits that he himself doesn't think his craftsmanship can surpass Sean.
People are professional winemakers, or people who are well-known all over the world, and they can't do anything that is embarrassing compared to others.
There are a lot of wild grapes in the small world, and Wang Yong himself can't remember when he threw them in. With their innate ability to adapt and survive, they quickly took root and multiplied rapidly in the small world.
Wang Yong easily picked more than thirty or forty catties of ripe wild grapes, put them in the largest pot in the family, and after picking the fruit from the grape stalks with his own hands, he began to carry out the first step in his great project of winemaking - crushing.
Since he didn't have any good tools at hand, he decided to learn from the ancients and use the most traditional method of crushing grapes.
Of course, it's not the kind of method that a girl steps on with her feet, just his sweaty feet, if you want to use this method, it is estimated that he will not dare to drink it after it is brewed. His method is very simple, just knead and squeeze it.
This is a step that must be taken to remember not to wash the grapes, because there is a lot of natural yeast in the grape skin belt, which can make the grape juice ferment faster and better.
Soon, Wang Yong's hands were dyed purple and black by the purple-red grape juice, and a lot of grape skins and grape seeds slowly floated in the pot.
I took a handful of grapes from the basin and felt that there were not many whole grapes, and the crushing rate was about 80%. He stopped, took out a large glass bottle from the room, and poured the juice with the peel and all the pieces into it.
Just as he was about to close the lid, he suddenly thought of something, Wang Yong put the bottle away, washed his hands briefly, went into the house to get the car keys and drove out.
I drove to Godmother's winery, looked directly into the car, and parked in front of a two-story office building. Zhang Wei and Sean, who saw Wang Yong's car coming through the window, came out to greet him.
"Hurry up. Get me some pectinase and yeast, hurry up, I'll be waiting for it! ”
Zhang Wei and Sean glanced at each other puzzled, wondering what was wrong with this young owner, could it be that he was suddenly interested in making wine?
If this is the case, I am afraid that Ms. Liu is definitely the happiest one. You must know that even the legal name of this winery is registered in Wang Yong's name.
It's a pity that no matter what everyone said about Wang Yong before, he has always been very uninterested in wine, which he called not as good as beer.
Before this, I had never seen him show any interest. Now the sudden arrival of pectinase and yeast, which are necessary to make wine, can't help but make the two of them think less about it.
"What do you want these things for?"
Zhang Wei and Wang Yong are old classmates, so there is nothing taboo, so they asked directly.
"Hurry up, let someone get it for me first. I'm in a hurry! ”
Wang Yong is really anxious, the grapes on his side have been squeezed, just wait for this thing, in case the time is delayed. If you can't make good wine, you'll really lose yourself as an adult.
Besides, the relationship with Zhang Wei. You don't need to worry about anything, you can say whatever you want. Of course, if it was with Sean, he would never do this, at least the politeness still understood.
"Okay, okay, that plum, you go find the library tube with that bit of pectinase and yeast."
Zhang Wei stopped a passing winery employee and asked him to help Wang Yong go to the warehouse to get pectinase and yeast. Wang Yong turned his head and glanced at it, but he didn't know it.
It's definitely not from the village, although there are many people in the village Wang Yong who can't name it, but there are always some impressions. He didn't have the slightest impression of this person, he should be from another village.
"Can you tell me what you want these things for?"
Wang Yong saw the man trotting all the way away, and knew that he was looking for someone to get pectinase and yeast for him, so he turned his head to look at Zhang Wei, a guy who was still asking the bottom of the matter.
"Why do you ask so much? Haven't you heard that curiosity kills cats? Whose cat do you want to kill? Beware of people coming to you to settle accounts and scold you for blood. ”
Zhang Wei listened to the old classmate's words that were not in tune at all, glared at him helplessly, and reached out to open his car door.
"Come down, go to my office and sit for a while, the warehouse is still a little far from here, you have to wait a while."
"No, I'm just waiting in the car, I'll have to go back quickly when I get it, I'm still waiting for pectinase after the grapes are broken."
As soon as these words fell, Sean and Zhang Wei suddenly had a happy face, and they both took out their mobile phones without caring about Wang Yong, and called Wang Yong's godmother as soon as possible.
"Are you bothered?"
Of course, Wang Yong knows what they mean, his godmother is very enthusiastic about the red wine industry she is engaged in, and her love for red wine is also from the heart, so of course she hopes that her godson can also deal with wine.
It's a pity that Wang Yong doesn't go to the Tao, and he has no love for wine at all.
Talking to him about wine, not to mention playing the piano to the cow, it is not much worse, plus this is the notoriously lazy in the village, thinking of the hard work of the wine fermentation period without day and night, the godmother who felt sorry for her son gave up the plan to let him enter this industry.
Besides, with his current value, he doesn't need to survive on winemaking, as long as he knows a little bit about it.
Seeing them calling their godmother together, Wang Yong waved his hand impatiently, started the car, and prepared to leave here first.
"I'll go directly to the warehouse to get it, you can just help me with the formalities or something."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Yong hung up the gear and loosened the clutch and left here.
Wang Yong drove slowly to the location of the warehouse, and saw that the employee who had been instructed by Zhang Wei just now was walking over with a girl in her twenties.
They were chatting as they walked, and it could be seen that the two of them were chatting happily with each other, and they didn't know what they were talking about.
Wang Yong drove the car to meet him, and then unlocked the door. Have them put pectinase and yeast in the passenger seat.
Then he thanked him, and immediately turned the car around and hurried back. These are essential ingredients for industrial winemaking. It's not easy for ordinary people to get it, and I'm afraid many people haven't even heard of it.
After getting what he wanted, Wang Yong hurriedly drove back. When I passed by the lonely office building, I saw Zhang Wei and Jon who were still calling their godmother and talking about something.
Wang Yong shook his head, and didn't have the heart to stop to greet them, stepped on the accelerator, and quickly accelerated out of here and went home to make wine.
I drove back home in a hurry. Unable to wait for the car to be parked in the garage, Wang Yong hurried to his bottle of grape juice with a jar of liquid pectinase and a vacuum-packed 500-gram bottle of active dry yeast.
I first unscrewed the lid of the bottle containing pectinase, and then I remembered that I didn't know how much pectinase should be added, and hurriedly checked the instructions for use.
The instruction manual of this pectinase originating in France is completely French, and Wang Yong, who doesn't know French at all, is not in a hurry at all, calling out Xiaoguang's "killer weapon", and easily translates the instruction manual into Chinese.
Well, it's okay, it's pretty simple, isn't it? Add three to five milliliters per hectoliter. Add directly to the must, then stir well.
My big glass bottle is a big guy of fifteen liters, and now it is about two-thirds of it, that is, about ten liters. According to the instructions, 0.3 milliliters are required.
How do you measure so little?
Forget it, just add a milliliter, anyway, this thing is to increase the juice yield, so that the color of the juice is better, isn't it better to put more?
Calculate the amount to add. But Wang Yong then remembered that he didn't have anything like a measuring cup and measuring cylinder here, so how could he measure accurately?
Nima. Didn't you mean to find trouble with me?
Simply, just pour a little more, add more, and we don't have to think about any cost. Thinking of this, Wang Yong directly carried the small jar and was about to pour it inside.
Suddenly he remembered that it seemed that he should add some sulfurous acid (now the national standard does not allow it) to inhibit or kill some useless or harmful bacteria. But you don't have it at home? Do you have to go to the winery?
Forget it, it's too troublesome to make a trip, just call Zhang Wei and ask him to send it over.
Soon the call was over, and Zhang Wei happily promised to send it to him immediately. However, while waiting, Wang Yong's interest in making wine began to plummet.
After Zhang Wei rushed over with a bunch of tools and sulfurous acid solution, the next work was naturally handed over to Zhang Wei.
"Generally speaking, if the grape raw materials are good, the decay is less, and there is no mildew, one ton plus 60 milliliters of sulfurous acid is enough to inhibit or kill most miscellaneous bacteria, and you can add 0.6 milliliters to this."
"After adding sulfurite, you must not forget to shake it a few times, pour it up and down a few times, let them mix evenly, and then you can add pectinase."
"After the pectinase is added, don't forget to mix it evenly, and then leave it open for about 24 hours, and then you can add yeast to enter the first fermentation, which is the pre-fermentation."
"After entering the pre-fermentation, we should do a cycle every four hours or so, and at the same time pay attention to the fermentation temperature at all times. The temperature should not exceed 30 degrees, and the optimal temperature is generally 26 to 28 degrees. ”
"Whew-"
"Huh-"
"You're a pig! You're going to be able to fall asleep just like that? ”
Zhang Wei looked angry, shook his hand and slapped Wang Yong, and left angrily.
As for Wang Yong, who was slapped in the face, he didn't feel anything, and he continued to discuss the Qimen gossip with Zhou Gong in his dream, and he didn't know Zhang Wei's departure at all. (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you for the monthly ticket reward of voltage994, I took a look at the house, and I am still a Taiwanese compatriot! Shocked!