Chapter 214: Making Wine

On the eighth day of August, the weather was clear.

For Xingfeng Village, today is a good day.

The wild grapes and prickly bubbles in the back mountain are almost ripe, so Li Zheng set a good day on the eighth day of the eighth month of August, and two people from each household went to the back mountain to pick.

Each household gets a maximum of two or three catties, just for the children's sweet mouth, and they can't make a few dollars.

Lu Jiu once went to see a large area of wild grapes and thorn bubbles, and it was indeed growing well, and she planned to buy the wild grapes and make wine.

In order to buy wild grapes, Lu Jiu deliberately got up early in the morning that day.

Lu Jiu deliberately changed a lot of copper plates, bought a scale, and found a random place to set up a stall in the back mountain.

After the completion of the vegetable greenhouse, Lu Sidong was temporarily idle, and he came over to help Lu Jiu today.

Because it is a grape grown in the field, Lu Jiu's price is not very high, three big dollars per catty, two or three catties per household, and almost one catty of meat.

Meat is more appealing than wild grapes.

So Lu Sidong had just shouted, and the people in the village rushed to sell the wild grapes to Lu Jiu.

But Lu Jiu is also conditional, those who are not in good condition, those who have been pecked by birds, those who are rotten, and those who have been crushed are not wanted.

At the end of the morning, Lu Jiu collected about 150 catties of wild grapes, as well as a small basket of prickly bubbles.

After lunch, Lu Jiu began to make wine.

In order to see the fermentation situation inside, Lu Jiu bought some glass bottles in the system mall, but fortunately, the glass bottles in the system mall are quite cheap and not very expensive.

In the future, glass will be used more and more, and it seems that it is necessary for her to open a workshop as soon as possible to make glass.

After the glass bottle has been sterilized, the first step is to ferment it for the first time.

For the first fermentation, the method of crushing is very simple, that is, the grapes are crushed, as long as the skin and flesh are separated, and the skin and seeds are packed together, and the container is two-thirds of the container, and the remaining space is left for the grapes to rise during fermentation.

Fermentation is the production of alcohol and carbon dioxide from the sugar in the grape skin juice through the action of yeast, the pre-fermentation process of red wine is the mixing of the skin juice, the yeast has been integrated into the juice when the grapes are broken, because there is yeast in the hoarfrost on the grape skin, so homemade wine can not add yeast during fermentation.

After an afternoon of hard work, I put all the grapes in glass bottles, and I waited a day or two to see how the fermentation was going.

The next day, Lu Jiu began to recruit workers to build a house.

Because he wanted to live in it before winter, the construction period was very fast, like some hard preparations, Lu Jiu planned to invite the strong laborers in the village to do it.

Lu Jiu asked Xia Ping'an, if you dig the foundation, invite twenty people, and it is enough to dig for three or five days.

Because he didn't know much about the people in the village, Lu Jiu asked Lu Sidong to help take charge of this matter, and choose some down-to-earth and capable villagers, and he must not choose the kind of person who cheats and cheats.

Since it is not clear when the digging will be completed, the salary is paid daily, 20 wen per person per day, including one meal.

Lu Sidong quickly recruited twenty people, all of whom were strong laborers in the village, down-to-earth and capable, and none of them were cheating and cheating.

In the afternoon, the foundation was dug up.

The temperature of wine fermentation is best at 15~25 °C, and now the weather is just right, Lu Jiu found that the liquid level was still calm yesterday, and at this time there were faint carbon dioxide bubbles, which means that the yeast has begun to reproduce.

A heart finally fell into the stomach.