【Chapter 164】 The winery makes a fire
Just when Yu Shanwei and Han Zhengbao were squatting around Xiaojing Lake with a few students to shoot migratory birds, Liu Rui was also constantly busy, preparing for the opening of the new wine shop.
For the Liu family, the expansion of the new winery is not only an economic expectation, but also a longing for the revival of the family's glory. Therefore, from the first day of the expansion of the winery, the Liu family mobilized to strive for perfection in every detail and build the new winery into an ideal appearance.
Since the excavation of the foundation, Liu Jiahong has been looking for suitable bricks and tiles around Qingyun to use to build the main project of the winery. It is recorded in some of the ancestral wine-making recipes of the Liu family that it is best to make wine in an old house, so that the rice wine will not be 'angry' and more mellow and delicious.
Of course, according to the general opinion, how can the age of the house affect the quality of rice wine?
According to Liu Rui's inference, the new house probably still has a strong pungent smell of various building materials, which will inevitably change the quality of rice wine. If it is replaced by an old house, there will be no such trouble.
This principle also exists in winemaking equipment, whether it is boilers, condensers or jars and jars for storing sake lees, they are all old and good.
In order to brew the original quality rice wine as soon as possible, the Liu family can be said to have worked hard, and almost used all the relationships and strength, so that all kinds of materials can be prepared.
Liu Jiahong traveled all over Qingyun, and even went to the county seat several times, and finally received enough green bricks to build a winery at some of the demolished people's homes. Fortunately, Qingyun has used a lot of buildings with this kind of terrazzo bricks, and in recent years, these old green bricks have gradually been eliminated from the market of building materials. If it is a few years later, after those old buildings are demolished and these green bricks are thrown away as construction waste, it will not be so easy for the Liu family to find it again.
Although it cost a lot of money to acquire terrazzo bricks and tiles, even reaching two or three times that of new building materials, Liu Jiahong and Liu Rui are still quite satisfied. Although the cost is paid, it is of greater significance for the development of the brewery in the future.
Liu Rui has a cheat like Space Spring Water in his hand, and he is confident that he can brew mellow wine under various adverse conditions, but that is too obvious. Therefore, Liu Rui borrowed some ancestral winemaking secrets to start with the building materials for the construction of the winery, and strived to achieve perfection. In this way, even if the new brewery brews amazing wines in the future, it can be pushed back to the ancestral secrets, and try to dissociate itself from itself.
After all, the existence of Shennong Space is a secret that cannot be said, and Liu Rui can only try to keep a low profile to avoid inadvertently revealing the secret and causing him to become a guinea pig.
To this end, Liu Rui not only worked building materials, but even treated the newly purchased boilers, distillers and various jars and jars accordingly.
Every day, after the old winery makes wine, Liu Rui did not directly take the freshly baked sake lees to the bottom of the mountain to feed the pigs, but first used them to soak the wine-making equipment, so that these sake lees can absorb the rust gas and aluminum alloy flavor in the equipment, leaving only a faint aroma of wine. After repeated processing, the newly purchased retort has long since lost the pungent metallic smell and has a bit of an aging taste.
In addition, Liu Rui also chose the more expensive and bulky clay pots used to store fermented sake lees, rather than the plastic barrels that are now used in large quantities in most wineries.
With the continuous development of the petrochemical industry, a variety of lightweight and cheap plastic products on the market are also emerging in an endless stream, which has begun to have a huge impact on people's lives.
Against this backdrop, Qingyun's breweries began to use plastic barrels as containers for storing and fermenting sake lees on a large scale. The use of plastic barrels is not only cheap, but also lightweight, which relieves a lot of the physical work of sake brewing, and is very popular with brewery owners.
In line with the trend, Liujia Distillery also uses plastic barrels, but it has a lot of benefits, but there are a little flaws. After the plastic barrel is used as a container for fermentation and storage, some organic matter will be dissolved in the alcohol, so the brewed rice wine will have a slight and unpleasant plastic taste, which will affect the taste of the rice wine.
Of course, this effect on the rice wine itself is minimal, not only is the rice wine sold in bulk in the countryside cheaper, but everyone will naturally not be too picky.
However, for Liu Rui, who is determined to carry forward the Liu Family Distillery, such flaws are naturally unacceptable. Therefore, at the same time as the expansion of the new winery, Liu Rui ordered a batch of clay pots from the local product company in the county to be used in the new winery.
This batch of clay pots is a backlog of products from the local product company a few years ago, and they are already covered with cobwebs in the warehouse.
After all, the current mass families have rarely used this kind of bulky clay pots, and the backlog in the warehouse is also a chicken rib, and now Liu Rui is willing to pull it away, and the local product company is naturally unable to ask for it, which is a win-win result.
After the clay pots were pulled back to the Liu family's compound, Liu Rui laid them out on the courtyard dam, washed them, and poured a mixture of space spring water and rice wine into them. The reason for this is also to 'make the pots old' as soon as possible, so that they can be put to use as soon as the new brewery is put into operation.
Liu Jiahong and Liu Rui prepared all kinds of materials and equipment so complicatedly, in order to allow the winery to brew mellow and delicious wine, occupy the mid-range liquor market in the county, and realize the leapfrog development of the winery.
In Liu Jiahong's heart, because of the success of the old winery during this time, he felt that all kinds of secret recipes and winemaking know-how handed down by his ancestors were reasonable, so in the construction process of the new winery, he did almost every link himself, and there was no sloppiness at all.
Seeing that his father was so enthusiastic about the construction of the new winery, and the shadow of the car accident injury had gradually moved away from his father, Liu Rui was naturally deeply grateful. Of course, Liu Rui naturally wouldn't tell his father that the reason why the rice wine brewed in the family winery is getting better and better, whether it is the ancestral secret recipe at work, the most fundamental reason is the mysterious space spring water.
After the main building of the winery was repaired, because it was necessary to maintain the original architectural style, Liu Rui did not carry out too much decoration, but only carried out a simple tidying up, and began to install winemaking equipment inside.
Walking into the new brewery, there are not many modern equipment in the spacious space, the only exception is the light bulb hanging on the face. The ground is paved with water-milled green bricks, and the bricks are filled with glutinous rice flour as the main material of adhesive, which is unbreakable. The neat blue bricks look like a whole on the ground, and they look like works of art.
In the new wine shop, the bricks and tiles are all old goods, and the beams, purlins, etc. are also old wood purchased by Liu Jiahong on various demolition sites. A variety of antique building materials have built an antique new brewery, which makes everyone who sees it for the first time be amazed.
Although others think that such a house is a bit wasteful to use as a wine-making workshop, the Liu family doesn't think it's a big deal. After building the new brewery according to the ancestral brewing secrets, they were already a little disappointed to look forward to the first pot of rice wine in the new brewery.
The installation of the brewing equipment is also very simple, Liu Rui invited several uncles and Wang Shaojun and others to help carry the equipment into the new brewery, and the installation was quickly completed.
According to the traditional customs of Qingyun, Liu Jiaxin Distillery starts from digging the foundation and making the ground beam, to the upper beam and covering the tile, all in strict accordance with the time provided by Luli Daxian, and there is no mistake. Even the installation of the final brewing equipment and the time for making the fire are rigidly stipulated, and there is no room for accommodation at all.
As Liu Rui, who has received a materialist education for more than ten years, if he had changed to before, he would definitely not spend money to do these things that are a bit of Shintoism. However, since he obtained the Shennong space, Liu Rui's originally firm materialist views couldn't help but waver, and he began to doubt that there were really some indescribable things in this world. Coupled with the insistence of the old people in the family, Liu Rui can now accept all kinds of suggestions from Luli Daxian calmly and implement them very carefully.
Perhaps, in the eyes of others, Liu Rui's changes are somewhat corroded by feudal remnants, but in Liu Rui's heart, all this is just peace of mind and reassuring the old people at home.
In this way, according to the guidance of Luli Daxian, the Liu family began to light the fire after some sacrifices at a specific time after his carefully selected words and began the process of making wine in the new winery.
The people who participated in the fire ceremony of the wine shop were all close relatives of the Liu family, and everyone was staring at the burning firewood with joy, and everyone had a happy smile on their faces. The opening of the new winery indicates that in the future, it can provide a large amount of distiller's grains to the pig farm, so that the pig farm can enter the stage of rapid development.
The common development of the winery and the pig farm is enough for the Zhang and Liu families to embark on the broad road to make a fortune and become the leaders of Liangcun and even the entire Qingyun.
In the hearts of the Liu family, they want to recreate the glory of the winery and sell the rice wine of the winery to farther places, so that more people can taste the taste of the Liu family's fine wine. In the hearts of the Zhang family, why don't they want to reappear the glory of the Zhang family's mansion, so that the Zhang family, which was well-known in ten miles and eight townships, will return to the ranks of mainstream society.
The roaring fire reflects the crowd of onlookers, and it represents hope and the future!
(To be continued)