Chapter 63: The Advent of Spirits (Chapter 2)
Zhang Twelve didn't bother to explain to her now, and it is estimated that she would not believe the explanation.
just told Lu Fujing to let her send ten catties of turbid wine back tomorrow, and then he went back with great interest.
Zhang 12 has drunk the turbid liquor of this era, and in his words, it is fading out of a bird - compared to the 21st century, the lowest is more than 30 degrees, and the high is 60 or 70 degrees, the turbid liquor of this era is indeed not very light.
He roughly estimated that the turbid sake here was about 20 degrees, which was similar to the Korean Japanese sake of later generations, so it was no wonder that those people drank in large gulps, and if they were given fifty or sixty degrees of spirits, they would dare to drink in large gulps?
Just kidding, you won't die!
Therefore, Zhang Twelve's current idea is to make a batch of spirits, and he believes that in this land, spirits must be very marketable.
When the time comes, the spirits will be used to pull back to the market, and the method of making spirits is only known to him, so Qin Dayou can only watch his restaurant business get worse day by day and have no way, with such a pleasant thought, Zhang Twelve slept well.
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Early the next morning, Zhang 12 gave a temporary notice to take a day off today, which made the children who were looking forward to listening to the story feel a little disappointed, but there was no way, Mr. Zhang was also very busy, okay?
Lu Yuner was not disappointed at all, because Zhang Twelve asked him to stay, and he was still happily thinking about whether Mr. was going to open a small stove for himself and tell him a story alone?
It turned out that he thought too much, Zhang Twelve just ordered him to send someone to find a few iron pots, and then find a few vacuum bamboo pipes to send to the backyard firewood room, although Lu Yuner was not very reluctant, but he did not refuse.
He was curious to see what the young gentleman, who could write poetry and tell stories, did with them, so he ran away.
Lu Yuner's work efficiency is still quite high, the iron pot was quickly found, under the guidance of Zhang Twelve, after working for most of the day, a strange-shaped, crooked device was set up by them, and the hollow bamboo pipe was finally connected to a big empty jar, I don't know what it was for.
Lu Yun'er stared at this strange thing that he had never seen before, and he was even more curious, and couldn't help but ask, "Sir, what is this?" ”
Zhang Twelve smiled and did not answer, but drove Lu Yuner away without question.
Lu Yun'er, who had been busy all morning, was naturally unwilling, and in the end, he left with joy after Zhang Twelve promised to tell him a story alone in the evening.
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This thing is a simple alcohol distillation device.
The principle of alcohol distillation is very simple, mainly relying on the boiling point of alcohol is lower than that of water, and the alcohol is volatilized by heating, and then condensed to obtain purified alcohol.
Although he is a liberal arts student, he also knows this truth.
Another key point is to control the heating temperature, because if the temperature is too high, the alcohol and water will evaporate together, and after condensation, the result is still a low concentration of alcohol, which cannot be purified.
Therefore, the distillation device made by Zhang 12 is to first heat the water, use the water temperature to evaporate the alcohol, so that the alcohol vapor is re-condensed above, and enters the bamboo tube, and what flows out is the purified alcohol, that is, the spirit.
This method is not difficult, if it is easy to imitate after being looked at, so Zhang Twelve was extra careful and chose to come to this backyard firewood room for experiments, and even Lu Yuner was driven away by him, which shows how much he attaches importance to this device.
In this day and age, there are no patents to apply for, so keeping secrets is a top priority.
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After the preparation, Zhang Twelve poured the ten catties of turbid wine he took from Lu Fujing, and then began to heat it, as a drop of wine flowed out of the hollow bamboo tube, gradually, the firewood room began to be filled with a rich aroma of wine......
When the speed of the liquor flowing out of the bamboo tube became extremely slow, Zhang Twelve knew that the wine in the pot had almost been distilled, so he took out a small scoop and put a little liquor in the jar, put it in his mouth and tasted it, his brows stretched, and then he laughed.
This liquor was finally made by him!
Although due to the poor equipment, this liquor is only forty or fifty degrees, but for those who have only drunk one or twenty degrees of turbid wine in the ordinary, this is a proper spirit!
Zhang Twelve looked at the spirits in the jar, there were about four or five catties, that is to say, this alcohol distillation device can get less than half of the spirits every time, although the amount looks a little small, but this degree is high!
Fill all the spirits in the jar and pour it into the jar that originally contained turbid wine, and only two jars were filled in the two-catty wine jar, and it seems that these are at most more than four catties.
Zhang Twelve took a turn in the firewood room, still not at ease, and dismantled the distillation device again, although it was a little troublesome to set up every time, but compared to being secretly learned, it was more reliable to build it every time.
Holding the results of his morning, Zhang Twelve went out happily......
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In the afternoon, Chen Qiaoxi's boudoir.
The two women looked at Zhang Twelve holding a wine jar, looking mysterious, and they were a little puzzled.
"What are you holding the jar I gave you?"
Lu Fujing was still in a hurry, and asked a little breathlessly.
Zhang Twelve didn't speak, "hehe" laughed a few times, and then opened the wine jar, and suddenly, the whole room was filled with a rich and intoxicating aroma of wine.
"It's ......"
Lu Fujing smelled this smell in disbelief - she was very sure that this was definitely not the jars of wine she had brought, the wine was too familiar to her, how could there be such a smell of wine?
"That's what I'm talking about as a core competency – spirits!"
"Spirits?"
The two women said in unison.
They had only heard that the Western Liang Kingdom was located in the barbaric land of the Western Regions, and had been sleeping outside the wind and eating and sleeping in the open and nomadic grasslands for many years, so the wine they drank was a little stronger than theirs, but it was only some.
And the liquor with the highest degree, I heard that only the royal family of Xiliang can drink so little, which shows the preciousness of this high spirit, but where does the current liquor come from?
So the two women looked at Zhang Twelve in unison, their eyes puzzled.
"I made this liquor myself-I used the ten catties of turbid wine that Miss Lu gave me in the morning, the output of this liquor is not high, and the ten catties of turbid liquor are only two jars of four catties of spirits in the end."
When the two girls heard this, their mouths opened wide in surprise at the same time.
This Zhang Twelve, how can he understand everything, and is there anything he won't do? This is the truest thought of the two women right now.
But what Zhang Twelve was thinking was, are you two robots? Do you want to be so synchronized?