Chinese wine culture has a long history.

It's just that Zhuge Liang, who has been mellow in all kinds of fine wines in later generations, comes to drink the wine of this era again, which is like a regret of drinking horses.

The liquor of this era was undistilled. The better wine is just a cloth to filter out the dross, and the rest is all wine. How much alcohol can there be compared to the market outlook? Seven or eight degrees, or a dozen degrees?

Moreover, there was also the so-called boiled sake in this era.

It is to add some vegetables, fruits or flower petals to the wine, and boil and drink it together.

Like Cao Cao's green plum boiled wine, it is to mix the plums that have just grown but are not yet ripe and boiled and drunk together in water. Hundreds of years later, what apricot blossom wine and peach blossom wine are boiled and drunk like this.

If there is no distilled wine, it is not very good, and if it is mixed with these things, Zhuge Liang is naturally not used to drinking it.

Of course, in this era, there are also some good wines, such as Du Kang or Daughter Hong, but they are all good wines that have been cellared underground for more than ten years, and they are only twenty or thirty degrees.

If the wine is aged for more than ten years, some of the water in it will evaporate, and the alcohol concentration will naturally be high.

As for the fact that the cellar wine buried deep in the ground and sealed will volatilize water, but not alcohol, Zhuge Liang does not understand the principle.

In later generations, there was a sensational news about this cellar wine.

According to the grapevine, when an ancient tomb in the Western Han Dynasty was excavated, a jar of fine wine was dug up.

It's been in the cellar for nearly 2,000 years.

At that time, the auctions were all about cups, and a glass of 50 ml of wine was auctioned for a high price of 10 million.

In this way, the jar is only twelve or thirteen cups; Its total amount is less than one and a half catties.

When the cellar is stored, it is definitely not one or two catties of sealed altar cellars, most of them are filled with ten catties, twenty catties, and some even hundreds of catties, but after being stored in the cellar for nearly two thousand years, it is finally condensed to this point.

In short, the longer the cellar wine, the higher the alcohol concentration and the more mellow it is.

It's just that, with the current family background of the Zhuge family, it is still affordable to get one or two jars of cellar wine. But if you want to drink cellar wine for a long time, you definitely can't afford it. Besides, what Zhuge Liang wants is not just the wine he drinks.

In later generations, the countryside would cook New Year's wine, that is, during the wax moon, the common people would cook their own wine for the New Year.

This kind of New Year's wine and cured wine are all distilled.

Theoretically, this kind of distilled spirit, the one or two catties of liquor that comes out at the beginning, is called the head of the wine, which is basically alcohol.

Not really. Some people have done experiments, and the alcohol content in the wine is only more than 60 degrees, and the thicker ones are only about 70 degrees, which can barely be called alcohol, but it is far from reaching the concentration of pure alcohol.

Moreover, the concentration of methanol in this kind of wine is too high, that is, it is toxic and cannot be drunk in large quantities.

What Zhuge Liang wanted was the head of the wine, a by-product of this distilled spirit.

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In later generations, alcohol was mostly used for disinfection. This head is used for sterilization, and it is barely qualified.

Besides, for trauma in this era, even if it is the divine doctor Zhang Zhongjing, he has no common sense of disinfection.

Although disinfection with wine heads cannot 100% guarantee that trauma patients will not become inflamed, it can greatly reduce the chance of inflammation in injured patients.

Zhuge Liang is about to go out of the mountain to assist Liu Bei, it is inevitable to march and fight in the future, and he can't prepare high-efficiency Jinchuang medicine, but with this wine head to disinfect, he can reduce the mortality rate of the wounded soldiers.

Disinfection of wine heads is medical treatment, and it can be regarded as benefiting patients; Saving someone's life is immeasurable, and it will naturally derive a piece of luck.

It's just that the wine will inevitably be mainly military in the future, which will be contaminated with a trace of killing, and I don't know how many sins will follow.

However, Zhuge Liang doesn't matter.

Although the disinfection of wine heads is mostly used on wounded soldiers, after all, it is still a life-saving thing, and there will always be a little luck in the account. Even if it is contaminated with killing because of the military, there is sin; But when luck and sin are offset, the remaining little sin is not to be feared.

I really think that he Zhuge Liang is going to save millions of luck before going out of the mountain? !

Some time ago, the eldest brother Zhuge Jin went back and forth in Xiangyang City, and Zhuge Liang asked him to buy back a batch of wine from Xiangyang.

Those undistilled liquors, mostly cost three to five hundred dollars a stone, and they were all freshly brewed.

After the ox cart transported it back by the way, Zhuge Liang was idle during the day, so he slowly distilled it. Two carts of wine are nearly 3,000 catties, and in the end, they only distilled more than 400 catties of good liquor. Of course, there are more than ten catties of wine, which have been stored by Zhuge Liang.

Distilled liquor naturally tastes sweet, but it is more spicy in the mouth.

If it is left in the cellar for a few months or even years, the fire in the distilled spirit can be removed, and the taste will be even better.

Distilled liquor, in this era, was the first time it came out, and Zhuge Liang named it Zhuge Liquor. Anyway, Zhuge pox is there, and there will be Zhuge crossbows, Zhuge steamed buns or something in the future, and Zhuge wine is not bad.

More than 400 catties of Zhuge wine, 20 catties of wine jars, but only 223 jars.

Among the twenty altars, Zhuge Liang is ready to let the eldest brother take them to Jiangdong for marriage.

Although their Zhuge family is in the middle of the road, they have these twenty jars of Zhuge wine for the purpose of completing the marriage, not to mention the sister-in-law's maiden family, even the entire Jiangdong, and they have to look up to his eldest brother Zhuge Jin.

As for the remaining two or three altars, it is enough for him Zhuge Liang to live his daily life.

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After a little pouring, Aunt Niu prepared a few dishes and served them.

At this time, Lu Qiling stopped playing Tai Chi, followed behind Aunt Niu, and entered the living room with a jar of wine.

Zhuge Liang naturally knew why this girl came in.

It is said that after Zhuge liquor was distilled, there was a smell of wine in Wollongong at that time. Then, the eldest brother Zhuge Jin, the third brother Zhuge Jun, and Uncle Niu, as well as Lu Qiling, who had been secretly drinking by the stove, were all drunk.

Although most of the people of this era love to drink, they are not as alcoholic as later generations.

If you pour a big bowl of high wine, you will get drunk no matter how big the amount is!

The eldest brother and the third brother don't dare to drink anymore these days, but Lu Qiling seems to have been hooked out of her addiction to alcohol. Every day at meal time, the girl must appear at the dinner table on time, in order to drink a bowl of wine before the meal like Zhuge Liang.

No, although it is still early for dinner today, Zhuge Liang is feasting, and the girl is uninvited.

Anyway, after staying in Zhuge for so many days, she didn't treat herself as an outsider.

Seeing Lu Qiling, still carrying the wine jar in her hand, Meng Gongwei quipped: "What's the matter, the junior brother is not yet married, so I will take my younger brother and sister over to live so early, so I am not afraid of Uncle Huang's scolding?" ”

Before he could defend himself, he heard Shi Tao smile and said, "Senior Brother Meng, it's not it, it's not it!" ”

"It is said that the younger sister of Uncle Huang's family looks very strange. The little girl in front of her, although she is not a peerless beauty, is also beautiful, and she is definitely not the legendary sister of Uncle Huang's family. ”

Huang Chengyan's family has an ugly daughter, which is not a secret in Jingxiang Seven Counties, everyone knows it.

It's just that few people have seen that yellow girl.

Therefore, how ugly Huang Yueying is, she can only be the same as everyone else.

Even Meng Gongwei and them, although they are Huang Chengyan's teachers and nephews, they have not been able to see Huang Yueying's face.

After all, Huang Yueying is not a disciple of the master because of her qualifications.

Didn't you hear Meng Gongwei and them, when they called Huang Yueying, they only called her the younger sister, not the junior sister?

When Lu Qiling heard this, she put down the wine jar, but she replied generously: "Little sister Lu Qiling, my father is Lu Bu in that person!" Mr. Kong Ming has saved my life, and my little sister now lives in Zhuge and takes care of Mr. Food's daily life, and she should be repaid. ”

As soon as the girl said this, Meng Gongwei and they were not good at making fun of them.

At this time, Zhuge Liang opened the wine jar and filled several wine bowls on the table one by one, and then, Zhuge Liang raised the wine bowl and said with a smile: "Senior brothers, if you taste this wine, is it worthy of the name of Zhuge wine?" ”

The smell of wine was fragrant, and the wine worms in the stomachs of Meng Gongwei and the three of them had already been hooked.

The three of them all thought that no matter how good this wine was, it would be at most the same level as Du Kang and his daughter Hong.

So, the three of them picked up the wine bowl, didn't think much about it, and simmered it in one gulp.

Then, the three old faces were red, their beards were all open, their eyes were round, and they were all holding their breaths to their throats. If it weren't for the fact that the three of them had achieved some small successes, that bowl of wine would have already popped out at this time.

After a while, the three of them all let out a long breath of wine, and praised in unison: "Good wine!" ”

Cui Zhouping smashed the corner of his mouth, as if he was reminiscing. "This wine should only be in heaven, and it is rare to taste it a few times in the world!"

Shi Guangyuan said with a smile: "Kong Ming's wine is indeed rare in the world, but it deserves the name of Zhuge wine!" ”

Meng Gongwei drank another bowl, and then said with a smile: "We have been friends for so many years, Kong Ming has such a good wine, but he didn't take it out early to share it with us, with bad intentions, shouldn't he be punished!" ”

Zhuge Liang smiled bitterly, and pretended to apologize: "In this way, if the younger brother is really guilty, he should indeed be punished." ”

Even though the original owner is a genius, he doesn't have the ability to make distilled spirits. Zhuge Liang is now making distilled liquor, but he definitely can't tell Meng Gongwei that this liquor was not available before, doesn't this make people get to the bottom of it?

Then, Zhuge Liang said: "This batch of Zhuge wine, a total of only twenty-three jars have been brewed. ”

"My eldest brother Zhuge Jin is about to go to Jiangdong to complete his marriage, and twenty jars of Zhuge wine are used to bring him to Jiangdong to complete his marriage."

"For the rest, in addition to the half of the jar we were drinking, two of them were buried under the old tree at the door. The three senior brothers returned to the mountain, but these two jars of wine were sent to the three senior brothers, and the younger brother was entitled to make amends, how about it? ”

Meng Gongwei and the others were not hypocritical, and laughed and said: "In this way, we are disrespectful!" ”

In addition, Cui Zhouping also added: "Today, after I have drunk this wine, other fine wines in the world have become horse drowning." The next time Senior Brother Kong Ming makes wine, he can brew more than ten jars, so as not to have no more good wine to drink in the future. ”

In their minds, this Zhuge wine is so sweet and delicious, it must not be brewed overnight, but they are not in a hurry to urge Zhuge Liang to start brewing.

Moreover, even the monks knew that the people did not have enough food to eat, so where did they get so much surplus grain to make wine?

Even if the Zhuge family was a small landowner, it was impossible to use all the grain for winemaking.

In an era when there is not enough food to eat, the landlord can't be arrogant!