Chapter 42: Steaming Wine (I)
Jiang De thought for a while and said, "Since you can't put it down, then dig a bigger cellar, this wine still has to be put in the cellar, this year is like this, and when the autumn harvest is over, I think we can hire more people, choose a place in our Sanjia Village, dig the cellar deeply, and in addition to Qionglou, we also have to dig a large cellar, as a storage place, Qionglou I don't think to wait, it is best to dig immediately." ”
Wang Ming sighed, "Yes, the best time for this wine brewing is to start brewing from winter, so that the wine yield is high, and now it is summer, and it is easy to produce sour." As for Qionglou, there is a large cellar, and it is not good to put too much, but dozens of stones of wine can still be put down. ”
Jiang De shook his head, in fact, this winter winemaking is to take advantage of the low temperature in winter, less impurities in the water, inactive microorganisms, and almost stagnant bacteria, and in summer, whether it is the quality of water or microorganisms, bacteria are active, and the wine brewed at this time is easy to produce a sour taste because of too many bacteria. In fact, it is also deterioration.
However, this is not completely unsolvable, especially in terms of water quality, which can be boiled first and then placed in the shade to minimize the number of miscellaneous bacteria, which is already a common thing in the summer of later generations.
Jiang De said, "Summer winemaking will be summer winemaking, we are not short of capital now, but lack of enough experience in winemaking and steaming masters, Wang Yuanwai, I think you can use this half a year to experiment a few more times, find problems, sum up experience, so that next year you can really make good wine."
In addition, our current funds cannot support us to expand our hotel immediately, so it will take a little time for the oil mill to generate enough profits. ”
Wang Ming frowned and said, "If that's the case, you can indeed give it a try, and in addition, do we want to hire a professional brewer?" ”
Jiang De shook his head and said, "No, our wine is completely different from the wine of other wineries, it is a new wine, if we invite a master, it will affect our experiment with new wine because of different concepts, and I know the profit of winemaking, so we are not afraid of the failure of the experiment, the more we fail, the greater our chance of success." ”
Wang Ming nodded and said, "It's true that there is no rush to make wine, but our restaurant is about to open a new one... How good is that? As he spoke, he looked at Jiang De with blank eyes, and Jiang De really didn't disappoint him and said, "It's simple, we only have two or three hundred thousand people in the house, and the restaurant won't consume more than one stone bar a day?" We can buy cheap rice wine from other places, after steaming wine, it will become low-grade liquor, and we can also practice our wine steamer, as for the mid-range wine, in the future, we will brew our own liquor, now I am afraid that it will be half a year, then we will launch high-end liquor first, and also play our signboard, this high-end liquor, I will be responsible for providing it. The price of this high-end wine should not be too low, I think the price of a pot is full or above is more reasonable. ”
"Thorough?" Wang Ming's eyes were about to fall out, "Xiao Langjun, this is very complete, but you can buy five stones of rice, this.... Isn't that too expensive? ”
Jiang De rolled his eyes, is it still expensive? This full conversion into points is only a hundred points, and the Moutai that was drunk to Wang Ming and others before was ten points a bottle, and the precipitation of thousands of years of history and wisdom was only exchanged for ten times the profit, Jiang De still felt a little lost.
Jiang De gave Wang Ming a brain and said, "Wang Yuanwai, our high-end wine is not for those ordinary people or ordinary small merchants and hawkers to drink, it is for high-ranking officials and nobles to drink, to be honest, this wine is not for the positioning of Neihuang County, but for those people in the Daimyo Mansion or Kaifeng Mansion, full of wine, you think it is expensive, but some people may still think it is cheap, please believe that people who are willing to drink a pot of wine with five feet will never care about a pot of wine!"
Not to mention others, like those in my aunt's house, who would love to drink a thousand full pots of wine! Of course, you also have to make people feel like it's worth the price. ”
As he spoke, the corners of Jiang De's mouth gradually curved and said, "But it's not impossible for us to sell this wine cheaply, and when our wine is famous and sought after by people all over the world, we can use this wine to make a lot of articles." ”
Wang Ming asked curiously, "Xiao Langjun has any wonderful ideas, please let me know." ”
Jiang De clasped his hands, tilted his head and said, "The ancients said it well, the ancient sages were all lonely, and only the drinker left his name." Whether it is a heroic hermit who rarely does not like wine, we can meet friends with wine and gather talents from all over the world in Qionglou, which will inevitably be useful in the future. ”
Wang Ming looked at Jiang De with the glittering eyes in front of him, he suddenly had a feeling that he had never really understood Jiang De, gathering talents from all over the world, what did he want to do?
Jiang De looked at Wang Ming staring at him, looked at himself and asked, "Wang Yuanwai, is there anything wrong with me?" ”
Wang Ming hurriedly lowered his head and said, "It's nothing, Xiao Langjun, don't think about it." After that, Wang Ming smiled self-deprecatingly, what if Jiang De was really ambitious? Who in the world has the ability not to have ambition? Even if it's yourself, don't you want to win a title right away? Jiang De has an extraordinary background, and there are many wonderful ideas, and his future achievements are bound to be limitless, whether it is for himself, or for the next generation such as Wang Gui, it is the best choice to follow Jiang De. In the future, whether Jiang De enters the officialdom or Wuthering Heights, it will be beneficial.
After Wang Ming finished collecting his thoughts, he said to Jiang De, "Then Xiao Langjun should rest as soon as possible, and I will choose reliable people tomorrow so as not to delay time." ”
Jiang De yawned, this is the ancient times of no nightlife, Jiang De also developed the habit of going to bed early and getting up early, this is only more than ten o'clock in the later generations, and he has been yawning for days, in later generations, this time point is when the nightlife has just begun.
Watching Jiang De leave, Wang Ming looked at the steel utensils on the left and the bag of wine koji on the right, clenched his fists hard, locked the door, and went out to discuss things with his two brothers-in-law.
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This is a newly built brick house, and if outsiders pass by, they will smell the smell of wine from time to time.
"In fact, the production method of liquor, that is, distilled liquor, is very simple, to put it bluntly, it is to use the characteristics of the liquor with a lower ignition point than water, heat the liquor, and then collect the heated gas, and then after cooling, you can get a liquor with higher concentration and purity." Jiang De said to the few people in front of him, these people were the people who were selected by Wang Ming and others from the village to be the steaming masters.
Many people hate cronyism, but in fact, cronyism is something that cannot be avoided for thousands of years, too many things that need to be kept secret, as a superior person can only trust those who have been around him for a long time, or trust those who have an in-law relationship with him, from the Peixian Gang of Liu Bang's uprising to the Whampoa Military Academy of Chairman Jiang in later generations, in fact, this is the truth, carefully calculated, Liu Bang, Liu Xiu, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Quan until the Ming and Qing dynasties, which dynasty and which generation of the core is not a group of fellow villagers, classmates, relatives and friends?