After leaving the winery, Chen Xu did not return to the Hou Mansion, but drove out of the city and went straight to the experimental factory of the Academy of Sciences, first found the two of Gong Shengsheng and the ironcore, drew a steamer for distilling liquor and steamed lids and other items, and asked the two of them to build it as soon as possible, and then went to find the carpenter's stick and asked him to quickly build a huge wooden steaming barrel, after the arrangement, Chen Xu went to the glass factory again, and took out some beakers, test tubes, flasks, droppers, glass rods, alcohol lamps and other pictures drawn last night, and asked Tangcheng to make some for chemical experiments at that time. As for the scale or something, I can't take care of it right now, so I can only slowly improve it when the time comes.

Five days passed, Ma Zhu and others finished making all the steaming utensils, Chen Xu arranged for someone to send them to Du's winery, and after waiting for a few days, Du Zhong came to report that the steaming winery and the stove had all been built, and Chen Xu took Yu Wuya to the winery again.

"Master Hou, everything is ready, see how to deal with it!"

Du Zhong has been at the door of the wine shop for a long time, and took Chen Xu to inspect the newly built steaming room, the room is not big, only about 30 square meters, there is a newly built stove in the center, the chimney made of pottery pipes extends beyond the roof, and the cast large iron pot has been placed on the stove and sealed the surroundings with yellow mud.

Chen Xu checked the steamer, the steaming barrel and the steaming lid of the wine next to each other, and after feeling that they were almost ready, he asked the big iron pot to be cleaned and filled with water, and then asked people to find a thick linen cloth to wrap around the edge of the pot, and finally put the steaming barrel on it.

The steaming barrel is similar to the wooden barrel used to steam rice in later generations, and the fermented sake lees are poured into it, covered with an iron steaming lid, and a layer of wet linen cloth is also padded between the barrel and the steaming lid as a sealing gasket to prevent the steamed sake from leaking.

The lid is surrounded by an inner U-shaped structure that is tilted in one direction so that the steam condenses on the lid and then falls into the U-tank and flows out through a catheter outlet.

Although Chen Xu has never seen steamed wine, at least the principle of steam condensation is still very clear, so he can only design this simplest structure at the moment, but according to Chen Xu, there is still huge room for improvement in this structure.

Everything was ready, and Chen Xu ordered the fire to be lit.

Under the command of Du Zhong, several helpers of the brewery lit the stove, and after twenty minutes, the water in the cauldron began to tumble, and at the same time, the steaming barrel began to heat up and emit steam, and there was a strong smell of wine in the diffuse steam.

Chen Xu didn't know how much fire should be used to steam the wine, so he didn't care, and a few helpers kept adding firewood to the stove as usual, Yu Wuya, Du Zhong and a few craftsmen from the winery were all around to look at the strangeness, and Chen Xu stared directly at the iron pipe at the mouth of the wine.

Soon after the steam came out, a crystal clear liquor could be seen flowing out of the iron pipe.

As the dripping liquor begins to slowly condense into a thin transparent line and falls into a crockpot below, an even more intense and intoxicating flavor emanates out, strongly stimulating everyone's nasal passages and taste buds.

"Wow, what a fragrant wine!" Yu Wuya squatted next to the crockpot, snorting vigorously, his face full of endless surprises.

In the sound of dripping, soon there was about half a catty in the clay pot, Chen Xu asked a craftsman to take a wine grape made of bamboo tubes, scooped up some and smelled it, feeling almost no different from the liquor steamed by the farmers themselves in later generations, and took a small sip, feeling that the whole mouth was like being scalded by boiling water, and Chen Xu spit it out directly.

Generally speaking, the first wine cannot be drunk directly, because it may contain methanol, so Chen Xu used a bamboo tube to pick up some at the wine outlet every few minutes to taste it, and after receiving half a jar of the first wine, Chen Xu ordered to change the wine jar, because the wine flowing out at this time tasted much mellow, and it was no longer as spicy as burning a knife.

"Come, Brother Yu taste it and see how this wine tastes?" Chen Xu squinted his eyes and sighed a few times, and after tasting it seven or eight times, he felt that he was already a little dizzy.

Yu Wuya was not polite, took the bamboo tube and poured it down.

"Wow~~coughcough~~"

After a sip of wine, Yu Wuya felt that he had swallowed a piece of coal, burning directly from his mouth to his stomach, and immediately threw away the bamboo tube and covered his throat and coughed desperately, and his face quickly turned red, I don't know if it was the wine or choking.

"Haha, Brother Yu, how does the second pot taste like?" Chen Xu laughed heartily, still remembering that the first time he was tricked into drinking liquor, it was almost exactly the same as Yu Wuya's current situation.

Although it is no longer the strongest head wine at the moment, according to Chen Xu's judgment, it is at least more than fifty degrees.

This kind of high-purity liquor is not said to be the current group of Qin Dynasty people who will get drunk after drinking only a few degrees of turbid wine and wine, and even the most capable drunkards in later generations can't bear a few sips.

"Engong, this wine is poisonous~~" Yu Wuya covered his neck and shouted in horror at the liquor that was still flowing down.

"Don't worry, it's not poisonous, it's just that the alcohol content is relatively high, this wine is stronger, you can drink several bottles of wine in this sip, naturally you can't stand it, you have to taste it in small sips......"

Chen Xu picked up another bamboo tube and took half a tube at the wine outlet, carefully took a sip again, and then said to Du Zhong and several winemakers with a smile: "You're welcome, come and taste it, don't take a big sip, this wine is fragrant and mellow, it is really the best taste in the world!" ”

There is a lesson ahead, although Du Zhong and several craftsmen feel a little inexplicably afraid, but smelling such a strong aroma of wine, one by one can't help it, everyone uses a bamboo tube to taste a little.

"What a strong wine~"

As soon as the wine was eaten, Du Zhong's face shook, but his face immediately showed endless surprise and surprise, and he couldn't help but admire after closing his eyes for a long time.

Several craftsmen soon tasted each other, and their faces were different, but the common expression was surprise and excitement.

"Good wine, so strong, the soul will fly after a sip!"

"I'm drunk, I'm going to be drunk!"

"Like a charcoal of fire, it goes straight into the stomach, it is extremely strong but the fragrance is unbearable!"

Several craftsmen all stared at the still flowing spout, and after this sip of wine, almost everyone's faces began to turn red, mostly because of excitement.

As a craftsman in the winery, soaking in the wine every day, the natural resistance to alcohol is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and after a moment of aftertaste, several people can't wait to taste it again, and then close their eyes and smack their lips and begin to feel the impact of this spirit on the soul.

"Master Du, how does this wine feel?" Chen Xu looked at Du Zhong.

"Hou Ye really deserves to be a master of gourmet food and a master of winemaking, ordinary sake lees can be steamed like this, and you can get such a crystal clear pure wine, and it is so strong and mellow, it really makes Du Zhong admire and admire!"

"Master Hou innovated this method of steaming wine, I'm afraid that no one will drink turbid wine in the future!"

Du Zhong and several craftsmen all patted excitedly together.

"I heard that good wine needs three steaming and three brewing to get, this pot is the first brew and first steamed, the taste is spicy like fire, it is not suitable for direct drinking, it is best to stand and cool and then seal the altar cellar and store it, and the wine after the next three brews will be more rich and mellow, to prepare some grain bran to come, and wait for this pot of wine to be steamed after the lees and grain bran are dispersed and cooled, and then add koji to accumulate and ferment, and then carry out the second steaming and brewing after the bad is good, and then the wine taste will be much more peaceful, so repeat three times. When the brewing substances in the sake lees are exhausted, they can be dried and mixed with forage to feed the livestock, so that the best use will not be wasted! ”

"What Master Hou said is that every time we make wine, we also add residual residue to the new ingredients, so that the wine can be produced quickly, so I will arrange it!" Du Zhong turned around and left to arrange for people to prepare the bran and koji, while several craftsmen began to learn each step of the operation under Chen Xu's guidance.

In fact, the operation of steaming sake is very simple, and mixing sake lees and fermentation are also the most familiar steps for the winery, so Chen Xu knows these craftsmen in a few words.

"The most important thing is the heat, you can experiment more, the steamed wine this time seems to have a burnt taste, next time you can make the fire a little smaller!"

"We have already remembered Master Hou's instructions!" Several craftsmen and helpers saluted together.

With the strong smell of wine in the steaming room, the whole brewery was filled with a smell of wine that was countless times more fragrant than usual, not only the helpers, apprentices and craftsmen in the winery were all surrounded at the door of the room to watch, and even the coachmen and wine merchants who came back and forth to pull the wine outside also stood on tiptoe one by one, and kept asking if today's winery was out of the world, why there was such a mesmerizing rich aroma of wine.

"Hehe, what do you know, today is Qinghe Hou making a kind of immortal brew in our winery, I heard that ordinary people dare not drink it, and they will get drunk when they smell it!" Listening to the inquiries and discussions between the coachman and the wine merchant, some of the apprentice helpers in the winery began to show off excitedly.

"It turned out that Hou Ye was making wine, no wonder, can you go in and be accommodating, I want to go in and meet Hou Ye!" A wine merchant squeezed in front of the apprentice who had just spoken, and said excitedly.

Soon the sound outside came to the room, Chen Xu asked Du Zhong to invite a few wine merchants who had dealings with the wine shop in, and let them each taste the steamed liquor, and suddenly there was a commotion in the room, and several wine merchants were choked by this high degree of liquor and blushed and had thick necks, but they were also completely conquered by the mellow and rich taste of this wine.

Not everyone likes to drink spirits, for the Qin Dynasty people who are not good at alcohol resistance, there is really no difference between this steamed wine and poison, but as a merchant specializing in selling wine, he can still taste the unique characteristics from this poison-like liquor, that is, pure, without the slightest sour and bitter taste of ordinary turbid wine, of course, there is no sweetness of ordinary rice wine, but it is this pure taste of wine that makes them crazy, one sip, not only the spirit floats, but the whole person's body also begins to shake, That's why everyone loves to drink, and it's this dizzy process that drunkards enjoy.

Therefore, once this kind of wine appears, it will inevitably cause the pursuit of good wine people, and it is necessary to drink a few pots on weekdays to satisfy cravings, and now it only takes one sip to achieve the effect, especially after a sip of drinking, it is hot and dry, if it is a sip in the cold winter wax moon, it is simply a god of blood and warmth.

"Master Hou, this ...... Can this wine be sold? A wine merchant asked in a daze.

"Selling is naturally able to sell, but not in large quantities, because the production is limited, and the brewing needs to consume a lot of grain, and the Shaofu will not allow a large amount of production, you know about it, don't publicize it widely, and after a few years of abundant grain production, the emperor will naturally allow the folk brewing to be sold!" Chen Xu shook his head and explained.

"Alas!" Several wine merchants couldn't help but have regret on their faces.

"Since a few people have met today, Ben Hou is not stingy, one hundred yuan a catty, each person is limited to three catties to take home to taste!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"Thank you, Master Hou!"

Several wine merchants excitedly hurriedly instructed the coachman to fetch the wine jar, and began to pack three catties and three catties around the steamer, and soon left with a jar of wine in his arms.

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