Yang Huairen still pretended to be nothing, called the little second brother to come over to add water, and ordered food by the way.

This restaurant called Bafang has a good name, welcomes visitors from all over the world, and the scene is also as the name of the store, but the dishes on the menu are so sorry for the name.

Ten dishes and three kinds of wine are all on the menu, but Yang Huairen found that the second brother was carrying several menus in his arms, and the dishes on each menu were probably the same, but the language was different.

Such a variety of services, but commendable, want to come to the owner and shopkeeper of the Bafang Restaurant should be open-minded, and well versed in the way of business, since the business is to make money to support the family, do not care whether the guest is Khitan or Han or other ethnic groups.

Perhaps because of this, Yang Huairen's complaints about the too few styles of dishes on the menu have been alleviated a lot, and there are indeed no green vegetables to eat in this place in Liaoguo in this season, Yang Huairen randomly ordered a few meat dishes that sounded good, and returned the menu to the little second brother.

The second brother wrote down the dishes ordered by Yang Huairen, and asked, "What kind of wine does the guest officer drink?" ”

Yang Huairen didn't want to drink, maybe because he was used to drinking good wine, and he hadn't even heard of the name of the wine provided by Bafang Restaurant on the menu, so he lost a lot of interest.

But later, he saw that the other brothers seemed to be a little eager in their expressions, so he smiled and asked the little second brother, "A few of us are from the Great Song Dynasty, and we haven't tasted the taste of these three kinds of wine in your store, and I think the names of these three kinds of wine in your store are a bit peculiar, so I didn't order it, why don't we introduce it to the little second brother, and we won't be too late to order it." ”

The second brother politely pointed to the names of the three wines on the menu and introduced, "The first one, called Queer Wine, is a traditional liquor of the Khitan people, in fact, this wine has little to do with the finches flying in the sky, and the main raw material for winemaking is ordinary millet seeds."

The reason why the wine got its name is that hundreds of years ago, although the Khitan people lived in the grasslands of the north, they also learned from the Han people to grow easy-to-grow millet as an important supplement to the food source.

At that time, there was a kind of finch living on the grassland, and the specific name is not good, but I know that this kind of finch likes to steal the matured millet in the field, and then bring it back to the stone nest they built on the stones of the grassland.

The herdsmen had finally grown so much ration, and they were taken away by the finches in vain, and felt pity and anger, so they looked around for the stones protruding from the grassland, and looked for the nests that the finches had built in the crevices of the stones or on the mortars, intending to destroy the thieves.

When the herders found the nest, they were surprised to smell an enticing scent, and they found that the finches had stolen the millet back into their nest and stored more than the edible part.

In a special environment, this part of the millet was drenched with rainwater, and it was stored for too long, and it had already fermented and became a liquid with a wine flavor.

After drinking it, the herdsmen liked it very much, so they learned to start making this fine wine from the surplus millet seeds, because they found that this fine wine has the credit of this kind of bird, so they named the wine finch wine. ”

Brother Tianba was surprised to hear it, and said happily, "There is such a thing? Did the Khitan people teach the Khitan people to make wine? Interesting, very interesting. ”

Yang Huairen said that in fact, many foods, especially the origin of fermented foods and drinks, are some unexpected discoveries of human beings, and it is indeed very interesting for the finches to teach humans to make wine, but it is not very unusual, it should be said that it is a gift from nature to human beings.

"Very good, this finch wine, give us a jar to taste at each table." Yang Huairen felt that the wine made from this kind of millet should not be high, so he casually asked for two jars.

The second brother saw that Yang Huairen ordered two jars as soon as he opened his mouth, and he was overjoyed, and pointed to the second wine name and said, "This second is milk wine, which is the most common wine among the nomads of the grassland.

Almost every household on the grassland brews milk wine, but the interesting thing is that because each family has its own brewing method, the taste of this milk wine is different from house to house.

Some herdsmen like to use mare's milk to brew, which is mare's milk wine, and some herdsmen like to use goat's milk to brew, and it is goat's milk wine. ”

The little second brother said with a slightly embarrassed face, "But this milk wine, many Han guests don't like to drink it, because the taste of milk wine is a bit special, in addition to the smell of wine, there is also a fishy smell, of course the herdsmen are used to drinking it, of course, they don't think there is a problem, a few guest officers, I don't know if you can stand it." ”

Yang Huairen said in his heart that this little second brother is sincere, Yang Huairen has indeed drunk mare's milk wine before, and the taste is really unacceptable, so he waved his hand and said, "Forget about the milk wine, please talk about the last one, what does lamb wine mean?" Is it wine made from lamb's meat? ”

The second brother replied, "You can say that, you can't say that." Lamb wine is a kind of expensive wine in the Liao Kingdom, which is obtained from the secondary fermentation of ordinary finch wine.

As for why it is called lamb wine, it is also because during the fermentation process of this wine, it is indeed added to the finch wine with pre-fermented lamb meat. ”

Yang Huairen was surprised, "It's really strange that you can still use mutton to make wine." ”

The second brother continued, "It can't be said that it is made of mutton, but the fattest and freshest lamb is selected and put in a closed clay pot with water, and then it is fermented in a sealed manner for a year.

After the lamb is fermented, it has completely lost its original meat taste and smell, and the meat has become firm, and then the fermented lamb meat is put into the finch wine and sealed and soaked for a second fermentation, and it can be taken out and drunk after another year.

The liquor was originally pale yellow and had a relatively light taste, but after the second fermentation, the liquor not only became clear, but also had a more mellow and sweet aroma, with a long aftertaste. ”

Yang Huairen was surprised by the use of lamb meat to make wine, and he couldn't think of any scientific principle to explain for a while that fermented lamb meat can make the wine clear and mellow.

However, just as people can learn the truth of sake brewing from the birds, this is the experience learned from the changes of nature in the continuous contact between man and nature, and the winemaker may not know the specific principle, but the experience tells him that this method of sake brewing can make a clear and delicious wine.

The lamb wine was said to be expensive wine, but Yang Huairen looked at the price, it was much cheaper than Suiyuan Chunke, so he called two more jars with the second brother.