859.Sweet Potato Wine (5/5)
Wang Bo led the group to prepare to brew fine wine, and Atulu was indeed a more connoisseur, so he asked first: "Boss, have you ever fermented sweet potatoes?" Don't tell me you're here to ferment sweet potatoes today. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Uh, do you still want to ferment sweet potatoes in advance?" Wang Bo asked modestly.
Aturu showed the expression of what the hell are you talking about: "How can you make wine without fermentation?" Do you want to distill it directly? The distilled sweet potato water is not sweet potato wine! ”
Na Qingyang waved his hand and said: "Don't ask the leader, he doesn't know, I prepared these things, and I also prepared fermented sweet potatoes, all in the warehouse in the outer court." ”
Wang Bo asked in surprise, "When did you prepare?" ”
"After I asked you where the sweet potato reserves were, I started to prepare." Na Qingyang smiled.
"How do you do this?" Wang Bo is still quite interested in this.
Na Qingyang introduced: "It's very simple, cut the sweet potatoes and dry them, then steam and mix koji, and the last one is to add koji." However, there is no koji in New Zealand, they have baking powder, which is sold in this supermarket, and you can buy it. ”
"There's a lot of baking powder, and it's a loophole in the government." Hani said.
New Zealand has strict control over spirits, and many people will make their own liquor, and baking powder is needed to make wine, so this thing is sold in New Zealand and is called a hot one.
After fermentation, the starch in the sweet potato juice has been converted into alcohol, and now as long as it is distilled, it is sweet potato liquor.
Na Qingyang said that this process is called steaming, and the fermented sweet potato blank is packed into a steaming barrel and steamed with water.
Wang Bo said that he didn't see that you still have this ability, and Qingyang smiled, saying that his grandfather was specialized in this in his hometown, and their family had a wine shop, selling sorghum wine, sweet potato wine, corn wine, etc.
When he arrived at the outer court, Na Qingyang took out the sealed wooden barrels one by one.
Seeing that he was full of bruises, Atulu went up and picked it up with one hand, and said easily: "This is very light, why do you show that way?" ”
After saying that, he laughed.
Lao Wang went up and carried one in one hand, and at the same time picked up two wooden barrels, and said, "It is indeed very light, Atulu has come to learn from me." ”
The Maori man stopped talking and walked to the kitchen in a gloomy manner.
Hani laughed: "Boss, you are such a villain, you don't give up a chance to establish your prestige, just like a gangster." ”
"Change your words, and you can call me a tyrant." Lao Wang pretended to shudder, 'You are really a bad guy', this kind of thing is usually said between lovers.
There is a stove in the kitchen, and the white people are not born with a gas stove or something, they also have an earthen stove, but it is not like the domestic way of using a large pot, but a flat, stacked steamer on top of it, used to steam bread.
There are multiple kitchens in the castle, Wang Bo now uses the main kitchen, in the past, these families had many people, and the kitchen had an area of four or five hundred square meters, like a playground.
He wasn't used to the empty kitchen before, but now he is used to this large area, and he is not used to it when he returns to the small kitchen.
However, he converted a corner of the kitchen into Eva's bakery, with various bread ovens, ovens, etc., which took up hundreds of square meters, so it looked like the kitchen was not so empty.
The stove has never been used, there are not many people in the castle, and such a large stove is not needed to make a big pot of rice.
This time it can be used to distill sweet potato wine, Na Qingyang said: "It's a pity that there is no earthen pot in my hometown, that is the most suitable, this stove is big, and the distillation speed is not estimated to be very fast." ”
Wang Bo sat on the wooden box he brought, and found that the size was just right, and was immediately surprised: "Is there a variety of size standards for selling this thing online?" ”
Na Qingyang shrugged and said, "Oh, this is not bought online, the pot is, I asked Dayan to help me make it by hand, and I have measured the size." ”
Wang Bo suddenly felt that it was good to have an excellent carpenter in the town.
First of all, you have to put the pot, because the stove has a flat bottom, so you can only hold the pot up, put firewood underneath, and you can use it.
Na Qingyang and Atulu were busy cleaning up the pot, and Wang Bo looked at the wooden box.
From the outside, it looks like an ordinary wooden box, but when you look inside the box, you can see the difference.
The lid of the wooden box is independent and can be moved at will, and the bottom of the box is made of two wooden planks, which form a groove at the joint, and a bamboo tube cut in half is buckled on the top of the groove.
"What is this for?" He asked strangely.
Aturu leaned up and looked at it, shook his head, and said, "I don't understand." ”
Na Qingyang said: "This is the practice of our hometown, and I asked my grandfather for advice before I made the drawings." In the past, farmers wrapped the fermented and ripe sweet potatoes and put them in boxes, and then pressed down with a lid, so that the pressed wine would flow down the seams into the grooves, and then flow out of the boxes, and then the sweet potato wine could be obtained. ”
Hani exclaimed, "Amazing wisdom! ”
Wang Bo pursed his lips, he knew that this was just a routine compliment, China's development in modern times was really lackluster, and what was more famous in the world was ancient history and ancient inventions.
Therefore, when some ancient Chinese inventions are mentioned with Chinese people, New Zealanders will praise them for their wisdom and whimsy.
The sweet potatoes are fermented, and when they are poured into the iron pot, they have a strong smell of wine, and in addition, they have a sour aroma, and the two flavors do not blend together, and the taste is not very good.
Seeing Wang Bo frowning, Na Qingyang laughed and said: "This is the taste after fermentation, in fact, this is already good, a little fragrant, otherwise that kind of sour smell can simply teach people." ”
A fire was lit, and under the action of a hair dryer, the fire quickly burst into flames.
Pieces of firewood were thrown in, and after only ten minutes or so, steam was coming out.
The steam has the aroma of wine, which is wasteful, but it is unavoidable, and alcohol evaporates much faster than water.
However, more wine slowly flowed down the bamboo pipe.
The bamboo tube has a layer of ice inside it, which cools the wine into liquor.
Wang Bo asked, "Wouldn't this dilute the wine?" ”
Na Qingyang shook his head and said: "The degree of sweet potato wine is relatively low, so it tastes good, they are not strong wines." ”
The color of the sweet potato wine that flows out is pale yellow and somewhat cloudy, which is very similar to the original beer.
Eva came to the kitchen for a routine bake, smelled the wine and smiled and asked, "Are you making wine?" ”
At this time, there was already a small barrel of sweet potato wine that flowed out, about five or six hundred milliliters.
Aturu poured it out, poured a glass for Eva and said, "Boss, come and try it, I bet it's the best sweet potato wine you've ever drunk!" ”
"You're welcome, then." Eva smiled lightly, she took the crystal cup and took a small sip, her red lips crossed the glass, and she had a sense of style. (To be continued.) )