Chapter 18 Distilled Spirits
Tai Shici lived in Ye Mansion for two days, and the two talked about world affairs and lived very happily.
However, Ye Chen would still go to the guard camp sooner or later and train with them, the guard camp trained hard and grew rapidly, and now it has become a disciplined army, but it has not yet undergone combat training in cold weapons.
On this day, the distillation of the spirits was largely arranged, and the stills had been made.
In order to keep it secret, Ye Chen's distillers were built by the two masters themselves, and the two parts of brewing and distilling were also done separately.
For this reason, Ye Chen deliberately set aside a large room in the workshop for distillation, and the people here gave high salaries, and at the same time chose the old people of the Ye family, and at the same time controlled this part of the distillation more strictly.
With everything in order, it's time to start making the distilled spirits.
On this day, Ye Chen took Tai Shici to the brewing workshop together.
"Master Liang, is everything ready?" This Chef Liang is the brewer of the Ye family, and has been working in the Ye family for forty years from the age of nine to now, and he is loyal and reliable.
"Young master, everything has been prepared according to your requirements, but I don't understand why you put the brewed wine in it again, and what is this lid for?"
Chef Liang has been brewing wine for forty years, but he has never seen such a practice, and his heart is full of questions.
"Hehe, Master Liang, don't worry, you'll know later." Ye Chen smiled and deliberately sold a pass.
In the past, some people might think that Ye Chen was messing around, but some of the things Ye Chen has done recently have deep meanings, and he will never be untargeted.
Ye Chen gave an order, and everyone started to work, the people here were all selected by the Ye family, and those apprentice fathers were also working in the Ye family.
The apprentices set the fire on fire and poured the brewed wine into a pot to burn.
After the lid of the still was put on, they began to wait, and the apprentices burned the fire very strongly.
Since it was the first time, only one pot was boiled, and the rest of the people gathered around to watch.
"It's out of the wine."
Someone shouted, and a little bit of wine flowed out of the bamboo conduit, and the wine slowly dripped into the empty jar.
More and more wine came out, and it turned from dripping to flowing.
"It smells so good."
"It's the smell of wine."
"This can really make wine, and it smells like wine..."
More and more wine came out, and the aroma of wine slowly spread throughout the room.
Master Liang took a deep breath, and then said, "No, this wine doesn't smell right. ”
"Master Liang, what's wrong with this wine, isn't it the smell of wine that we smell every day, you must know that this wine is made by you yourself."
Another brewing master was a little strange when he heard Master Liang's words, so he asked.
"Master Wang, you smell it carefully, the aroma of the wine is still the same wine, but I think the current wine is more aromatic, more mellow, yes, it is more mellow, as if it is several years of old wine."
In the end, Master Liang almost screamed excitedly.
The person called Master Wang by Master Liang approached the place where the wine was made, took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and seemed to be savoring.
"Well, the aroma of this wine is indeed different, different." Master Wang also shouted excitedly.
With Master Wang shouting, the scene became lively, there were many wine tasting masters present, although they felt that it was wrong, but they couldn't say what was wrong, but now they were said by the two masters of Liang Wang Everyone understood, and they came over one by one to smell the wine.
For them, the aroma of wine is the first step in wine tasting, and sometimes even the smell of wine can determine the quality of wine.
A group of people gathered around the wine pipeline, smelling the wine so drunk, which made Ye Chen, who was on the side, a little crying and laughing.
"Okay, guys, you've smelled enough of this wine, why don't you taste it?"
Ye Chen said that a few masters felt that they were a little out of shape, and it was also indecent for a few to kneel around the wine jar, but although they stood up, their eyes were still staring at the wine jar.
"Go get some cups." Chef Liang instructed an apprentice to fetch a wine glass, which was prepared in the brewery because the winemakers often tasted the freshly brewed wine.
After a short time, the apprentice brought a plate with many wine glasses and a drinker.
Master Liang hurriedly took the wine and hurriedly made some wine, and carefully poured the wine into the wine glass.
He did not rush to drink, but sniffed and sniffed, and then looked carefully, to see the color of the wine.
The second step in this tasting is to look at the colors. I saw that this wine was very clear, and there was no previous wine, and no matter how much I got it, there were a lot of turbid things, so I couldn't make it so clear and transparent.
Chef Liang was observing the color of the wine, and the rest of the winemakers on the side were surrounding him, looking at him very nervously.
They didn't even dare to breathe out loud. So there was a strange scene in the distillation room, a group of people surrounded Master Liang, sometimes nervous and sometimes relaxed with Master Liang's movements.
Chef Liang finally finished reading the color of the wine, and then took a sip.
Master Liang frowned. A group of onlookers suddenly became nervous.
Then, Master Liang loosened his brow and took another sip of wine. The wine slowly squirmed in Master Liang's mouth, and he looked focused and savored it.
Master Liang suddenly drank the whole glass of wine and shouted, "Good wine, good wine." ”
With Master Liang's shouting, a group of people came back to their senses and asked, "How is it, how is it, how is this wine?" ”
Master Liang closed his eyes and tasted the taste of the wine before saying, "Excellent, superb, this is the best and best wine I have ever drunk in my life." ”
Even though they didn't drink, the group got excited with Chef Liang, who was the best taster among them, and he said that a masterpiece is a masterpiece.
"Haha, thank you for your hard work, it depends on everyone's efforts to make good wine." Ye Chen was very happy, which meant that Ye Chen had another income, a variety of superb products, and good wine and good food must be a perfect match.
As Ye Chen spoke, several winemakers suddenly felt very embarrassed, and they completely forgot about Ye Chen.
"Young master, I was so excited just now that I forgot about you." Master Liang took the lead at this time and stood up and apologized to Ye Chen.
"Haha, it's okay, it shows that this wine is really good." Ye Chen smiled freely, and didn't blame them, so a few winemakers were relieved.
"Come on, come on, it's better to be happy alone than to be happy together, and everyone drinks together."
Ye Chen took the lead in taking two glasses and took two glasses of wine directly at the wine outlet. A cup was given to Tai Shici on the side and said, "Big brother, come, let's have a drink together." ”
"Okay, I'll try this wine too."
Seeing that Ye Chen had taken the wine, the rest of the people also hurriedly took the cup to pick up the wine.
After everyone took the wine in their hands, Ye Chen said loudly: "Thank you for your efforts for the Ye family, Chen Xian is respectful, I hope everyone will make persistent efforts in the future and live a stable and comfortable life together." ”
After saying that, Ye Chen dried it down, and the rest of the people saw that Ye Chen was so polite and kind to them, so they all picked up the wine glass and drank it.
"Poof"
"Ahem"
"Ahh
"Haha"
As soon as many people poured the wine into their mouths, some people spit it out, and some people choked on tears.
Ye Chen drank a lot of high-grade spirits in his later life, and he had already prepared in his heart, but other people, who usually drank a few degrees of liquor, suddenly drank this high-grade spirit, and it was strange to pour it in one gulp and not be choked.
If you are like Chef Liang, you will be fine if you start tasting slowly.
"Blame me, blame me, blame me for not reminding you that this wine is different from ordinary wine, this wine is very strong." Master Liang hurriedly came out to apologize and said.
At this time, even if Master Liang doesn't say it, everyone knows it.
So Ye Chen asked them to make a new glass of wine and taste it slowly.
"Big brother, how is this wine?" Ye Chen said to Tai Shici on the side.
"Good wine, this is the wine that men drink." Tai Shi Ci said dryly.
After a slow sip, the crowd regrouped again.
"Young master, I didn't expect such a big change in the liquor after such distillation, it is simply a earth-shaking change."
"Yes, young master, how did you come up with this solution, it's amazing."
The crowd began to talk nonsense.
After Ye Chen signaled everyone to be quiet, he said: "After this wine is distilled, everyone has also seen it, it has become more mellow, not only that, but even the color is extremely clear, but everyone doesn't know that there is more to it than that. ”
"Oh, young master, what else is unique." Master Wang hurriedly asked, obviously fascinated by this wine and extremely curious.
"The reason why this wine is so clear is that there is no impurity in the wine, unlike before, no matter how it is filtered, there will be grain residues, and it will be a little turbid."
"Well, a couple of winemakers nodded, apparently they understood that very well."
Ye Chen continued: "Then the quality of the grain residue wine is not so good, and it is easy to deteriorate, but this distilled wine is not only not easy to deteriorate, the longer it is placed, the more mellow it is, and the better it tastes." ”
"Oh!!"
Everyone was convinced of Ye Chen's words.
"Young master, I think this is a brand new wine, it should have a new name, or you can give this wine a name."
Master Liang's proposal was approved by everyone.
"It's okay, this wine doesn't need a loud name, let's name it 'Du Kang' to commemorate the predecessor who invented wine."
Ye Chen's words made the name of the wine decided.
Ye Chen did not let this new wine become popular in the world, and as the boss in later generations, he naturally had his own set of methods for marketing, and Ye Chen had to use this wine as a sharp weapon.