Chapter 591: Rye Two Pot Head
If you want to get people drunk, ordinary wine will definitely not work. Something like dark beer can be drunk by ordinary people without getting drunk. Only people who are very uncomfortable with drinking will get drunk quickly. If you use this wine to get drunk with the natives, it may not work.
So, Marlin was going to go on stronger wine. The simplest, of course, is to directly mix liquor with medical alcohol, which is the inferior liquor of three or five yuan a bottle in later generations.
However, this kind of liquor, just a wine taste, is not mellow at all and cannot attract people. Therefore, Marin planned to use a little strong liquor, such as stuffing donkeys, burning knives, two pots or something, the kind that can be poured in a few taels, which is also convenient for intoxicating the natives.
It's just that Marin doesn't know the recipe for stuffing the donkey and burning the knife, so naturally he can't do it. As for the second pot head, Ma Lin had searched for a detailed preparation method in his previous life, and he could do it now.
Moreover, these three famous spirits, smothering the donkey and burning the knife are so strong that when you drink them, your mouth is like a fire. It's too unfriendly for natives who have never touched alcohol. Therefore, it is better to still have a two-pot head.
Although the second pot head has a high degree, it is not strong, and it tastes mellow and fragrant. The reason for this is that the second pot head removes a variety of low-boiling substances from the first pot wine and the third pot tail. And these ingredients will bring miscellaneous flavors, and some spicy flavors. Therefore, the authentic two-pot head has a high degree, but it is softer to drink than spirits such as burning knives. But no matter what, it's still a strong drink, and when you drink it, you have to pour it......
The method of making the second pot head is very simple, that is, in addition to the steamer and pipes, make a tin pan (a tin container for water), and fill it with cold water. The principle is that the tin is filled with cold water, and the wine vapor is steamed upwards. When the steam enters the tin through the pipe, it is steamed upwards. However, when it encounters a tin bucket filled with cold water, it suddenly cools, so the wine vaporizes into water droplets, which flow along the inner wall of the lower layer of the tin tin to the bottom and accumulate into liquor.
Every time a pot of wine is burned, it is called "pot head", and the concentration of this wine is high, which can reach more than 75 degrees, and the quantity is small, accounting for about 10% of the total. Marin plans that this "pot head" does not need to be reused and recycled, and can be directly used as medical alcohol. Anyway, the alcohol content for medical alcohol is also about 75 degrees.
As for the "wine slightly" left in the third pot, it is about ten degrees. Then, the sake is reused and steamed several times. Until the degree of the tail of the pot with more impurities reaches less than 5 degrees, the tail liquid is no longer used to steam wine, but is used to repeatedly steam and extract medical alcohol, which contains some miscellaneous flavors like the pot head. But medical alcohol is not for drinking, but for use. Therefore, the taste rush is nothing.
In the past, Marlin's practice was to use ordinary beer and repeatedly steam and cool it. Each time you cool down, the degree increases. However, some of the head pots, two pots or something. In this way, medical alcohol with a mediocre taste is obtained. When used to mix with water, it doesn't taste very good.
However, if you use the method of making the second pot head to collect the head and tail of the pot to make medical alcohol, the benefits are huge. Because, the quality of the liquor in the second pot is very good, and it can be sold at a high price as a good liquor. The head and tail of the pot can also be refined to supply medical needs, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Moreover, the power of the pot head can reach the level of medical alcohol, and it does not need to be purified, and it can be directly packaged and used as medical alcohol. Only at the end of the pot need to be steamed and cooled repeatedly to obtain the height number.
Marin now has a lot of food in his hands, and a lot of it is used to make dark beer. It's just that because of the serious shortage of hops, a lot of beer is inferior beer without hops.
Now, Marin suddenly remembered how to make the second pot head. That tin is very crucial. Because, the two-pot head it refines is a good wine.
Although its characteristics are different from those made from sorghum, corn, and wheat, Western beers also have a unique flavor when used to refine them.
As soon as he said it, Ma Lin directly found a craftsman and used tin ingots to create a tin pan and a wine pot for refining the second pot head, and began the work of making the second pot head.
The sake is made with inferior dark beer brewed without hops, and this kind of dark beer, because it does not use hops, the taste is not authentic enough, and it is easy to rancid. However, it is good to use it to extract the second pot head and medical alcohol. Moreover, after extracting into a two-pot head, it is different, the spirits are very durable. The longer it is placed, the more mellow and high-end it is.
In this way, the weakness of beer that is not easy to preserve can be fully solved. You know, in this era, there are no good means of preservation. Draft beer is rancid in a few days, and cooked beer is preserved for a long time, but the taste cannot catch up with draft beer.
But whether it is draft beer or cooked beer, in terms of long-term preservation, it is scum in front of liquor. Baijiu lasts for a long time, and the longer it is kept, the more valuable it is. Beer will spoil and rancid in a short period of time, and the transportation in this era is so poor that it is difficult to transport beer to foreign markets for sale, and can only be digested locally. Therefore, liquor has the advantage of being sold far away that beer does not have.
In fact, liquor does not sell well in the German region. Because, the Germans are not very fond of spirits. However, Eastern Europe is different. Maozi, in particular, is a lover of spirits. When you think of Maozi, you think of vodka......
Marin believes that after the rye two-pot head is made, it will definitely sell well in Eastern Europe......
After the tin was made, the craftsmen finally figured out the proportion and time of the pot head wine after several experiments, and determined the approximate level of the pot tail (that is, 5 degrees) by tasting it themselves, and it was possible to extract alcohol instead of using it.
After the craftsmen tried it many times, Marin came to taste the second pot head for himself......
Marin frowned after tasting the rye second pot head extracted by the craftsmen......
He felt that this kind of rye two-pot head seemed to be different from what he drank in his previous life. First of all, the degrees are not the same. After all, this is steamed with draft stout as an ingredient. Unlike the authentic Erguotou, it was originally brewed using the brewing method of liquor. Therefore, the degree of this rye beer base Erguotou is not as high as 56 degrees of the later Red Star Erguotou, and it is only about 40 degrees.
However, Marin felt that this was just right. Why? Because 56 degrees is too high for Europeans. Even the vodka, which Maozi likes to drink, is generally around 40 degrees. And the degree of brandy and whiskey is also around 40 degrees.
The reason why this is so is because those brewers, after hundreds of years of exploration, according to the preferences of European and American users, determined this degree.
40 degrees is a degree that Europeans and Americans are used to drinking. No matter how high it is, they can't stand it. Therefore, Marin felt that the degree of such a rye second pot head was just right.
The only thing that is unpleasant is that there seems to be a faint bitter taste of rye in the liquor......
However, it's nothing, anyway, overall, this is already a very good liquor. So, Marin decided to entertain his generals with the newly brewed rye two-pot head to see if he could put them down...... If it works, then take it to the Americas and put down the natives......