After a few pleasantries, Master Kinuma said a few words, and a middle-aged man said in proficient Chinese: "Master Kinuma said that he has recently brewed some new works, and he would like to prepare a small tasting party for you to listen to your opinions." ”

"Really?" The boss was overjoyed, "I've long wanted to try Master Kinuma's craft!" ”

"The sake brewed by Master Kinuma himself is sent directly to the auction house, so you have a good time today." The middle-aged man said a little proudly.

"Hey, great! I had a good drink today! Hearing the people of the White Frost Distillery say this, the director's saliva was about to flow, and he was hungry and thirsty.

"Didn't you quit drinking?" Zhou Ye glared.

The supervisor is not more than ten years older than him, the two get along, more like friends outside the workplace, and when the supervisor checks his body recently, all indicators are very high, and the doctor told him to quit drinking.

When the supervisor first entered the industry, he once heard a senior say that if you want to sell wine, you must know where the wine is good, so the supervisor has studied wine tasting, but the wine tasting effort did not last long, but the amount of wine increased greatly, and he became an alcoholic.

It wouldn't be uncomfortable to quit drinking now, but the Director's willpower was not bad, and he hadn't seen the Director drink for almost a week.

"Such a good wine, quit drinking! Drink to death! The director dragged Zhou Ye and followed.

After a while, everyone sat down in the conference room, and in front of everyone, a small glass of wine was placed.

The director scratched his ears and cheeks beside him, and the wine worm was about to bite through his stomach, but no one else moved, only staring dryly.

Zhou Ye sniffed, there was no sense of taste, and when he saw that everyone else was holding it up, he also picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.

After drinking it all, he was dumbfounded, only to see others pick it up, but he didn't drink it at all, and put it in front of his nose to sniff.

Zhou Ye was a little embarrassed.

Then he was glared at angrily by the boss and the guests of Fuso.

"You kid, drink too fast!" The director couldn't cry or laugh, how are you chewing peonies, this wine is going to be auctioned, why did you drink it like this?

Even if you drink it, you have to taste it a little bit.

Didn't you see that the brewing masters, as well as the guests of Fuso, as well as the boss, all sniffed in the left nostril and sniffed in the right nostril, with a look of intoxication on their faces?

You have to sniff for three or five minutes, right?

However, the director was also very curious about what this wine tasted like, and lowered his voice and asked, "How does it taste?" ”

"It's not a taste...... Zhou Ye frowned, "It feels like colorless rice wine......"

To be honest, Zhou Ye was disappointed.

Originally, I thought that the brewing master of Fuso Prefecture could be very capable.

I didn't expect it to be bland and tasteless, and the only good thing is that it is refreshing.

"You kid don't understand." The director shook his head, "This is a master's wine, how can it be the same as rice wine!" ”

"No, I don't think the wine Uncle Zhuang gave me is much better." Zhou Ye said.

"You don't understand...... The loose wine you brought with you is delicious...... Uh, it's really delicious, but can it be compared to the master's? The director didn't believe it, and more than half of the bottle of wine that Zhou Ye brought back went into his stomach.

It's the best wine he's ever drunk in his life.

From that day on, when I drank other wines, I felt light and tasteless, and even had a smell of urine, and the more I drank, the more unpleasant it became, so I simply quit drinking.

But after all, it's just a small brewery wine, can it be compared to this Fuso master's?

The director still thinks it's unlikely.

"I don't know, I don't quite understand. You'll find out for yourself later. Zhou Ye was also a little puzzled, after all, he was a master, so he couldn't compare to Uncle Zhuang......

Uncle Zhuang was just a retired employee of a winery before, right?

Besides, Fusang is a traditional craft and a craftsman spirit, so there are also mysterious bonuses.

"You don't understand, high-end wine, there is no taste in the mouth, but it has an endless aftertaste, this wine is not anything else, it is very high-end!"

Because there is no smell when you smell it, it is like Uncle Zhuang's wine, smelling the aroma, taking a breath, you feel like a fairy.

If it's advanced, then I'd rather be lower......

The two of them muttered in a low voice, and the other side finally finished sniffing and was ready to drink.

Impatiently, the director took a slight sip, frowned, tilted his head a little puzzled, "squeaked", drank all the wine, and then frowned even more, covered his mouth and coughed twice.

"What's wrong?"

"It's unpleasant...... What the......" the main pipe said.

"Poof......" Zhou Ye burst out laughing.

The snickering of the two attracted the angry glaring of the boss and the dissatisfaction of the Japanese guests, and after a few murderous glances in a row, the two had to lower their heads and desperately hold back their laughter to make themselves look serious.

Can't be rude, people are guests, and it's already so pitiful......

"Two, do you have any complaints about my wine?" At this moment, an old and cold voice sounded.

Ah, no, this brewmaster can actually speak Chinese?

I don't think they will be heard just now!

"No, no." Seeing what Zhou Ye wanted to say, the director hurriedly covered his mouth, "We haven't drunk such a delicious wine, so we lost our temper for a while!" ”

"The two of you are my bosom friends, please drink a few more glasses......"

you, let you talk nonsense!

Seeing the two of them drinking with tears streaming down their faces, Master Kinuma nodded with satisfaction and introduced: "I chose to brew this sake at the end of winter, not only the rice used for brewing, but also the water used to wash the rice, which is taken from the position above 2,000 meters above sea level in the snow-capped mountains, picked before sunrise, placed in stone tools to melt, and then filtered out impurities, and only used to wash the rice when its temperature rises to 2 degrees...... Only ice water, which hurts like a knife, can make the sake full of crisp flavor......"

The boss sighed: "The craftsmanship of the master makes us admire, and only a person like the master can make such a beautiful wine......

But the problem is, this wine still doesn't taste good! Zhou Ye's desire to complain is about to burst.

Sure enough, we don't understand the world of craftsmen! We are just mortals!

After the tasting, the boss took the guests to continue the visit, and Zhou Ye and the supervisor returned to the office.

There's a lot of work ahead.

"You kid said something was wrong in the morning?" In the busyness, the supervisor asked Zhou Ye, "Are you in a hurry?" ”

"Yes, I was looking for the owner......"

"What? Is that your classmate who owns a brewery at home? When the director heard this, he was taken aback, and then waved his hand: "Then what are you still doing in a daze?" Don't hurry up yet! ”

"But there's a lot of work today......"

"I'll leave it all to me!" The supervisor said, "As long as you remember...... Bring me some wine when you get back! ”

"Roger!" Zhou Ye picked up the car keys and went out.

At five or six o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Ye drove back to the company.

The lights are still bright, and colleagues are still working overtime.

"Did you bring me wine?" The director glared.

"I brought it, but I didn't bring ......," Zhou Ye said, and then took out a plastic bag, which was densely packed with things similar to convenient fabric bags.

"What is this?" Looking at the pouch inside, the director wondered.

I'll let you bring wine, what do you bring me to do with the convenient fabric!

"Brewing fungus ......" Zhou Ye said, "Uncle Zhuang said that if you want to drink, you can brew it yourself, it's simple and convenient......"

The director was dumbfounded, and then slapped it over: "Baga, if it's that simple to make wine, what else do you want the winemaker to do!" ”

"But that's what Uncle Zhuang said!" Zhou Ye died of grievances, "Uncle Zhuang said, buy some rice, get a rice cooker or yogurt maker that can control the temperature to make low-alcohol wine, low-alcohol wine, freshly brewed and drunk is the most suitable, if you want to brew high-alcohol wine, you have to distill it yourself......"

"Damn, if it's just ordinary wine, I'll just buy it, can I drink my own wine?"

"Uncle Zhuang said that it is definitely better than most of the wine on the market." Zhou Ye swore an oath.

"Really?" Curious, the director took out a small pouch, put it in his hand, and looked at it over and over again.

It really looked like a plastic bag, with some yellowish-white powdery object sealed inside, and a few lines of words written on the bag.

"Zhuang Kee Distillery: Low-degree aromatic rice wine type A colony for mass production, 2 grams (suitable for 2KG wine). How to use: Cook rice at high temperature, after it is reduced to room temperature, sprinkle the colony into the rice wine, stir and let it stand for 4-10 hours, filter or drink directly after stopping the bubbles, and the constant temperature is the best. ”

He turned the pouch over and saw that it was written on the back: "Strain Ingredients: Patented Yeast Strain 17090918, Patented Acetic Strain 17090520, Patented Lactic Strain 17092309, Ratio 3:1:1, Suitable for Rice Brewing ......"

The supervisor then discovered that the bags were still different.

In addition to low-alcohol aromatic rice wine, there are also low-alcohol fruit wines, ale wines, beers, and high-alcohol wines, all of which have different strains and proportions.

The director wants to complain when he sees it, this is homemade yogurt!

Homemade yogurt is not so simple!

Of course, he didn't know that Zhuang's father had been thinking about the mass production of winery recently.

Why is wine hard to make? Because in the process of winemaking, microorganisms are too complex and uncontrollable.

In the process of winemaking, the control of environment, temperature, humidity, water quality, etc., is actually to control microorganisms.

But microbes themselves are so complex, so complex that they require human instinct, experience, and inspiration to compromise with them.

If there is one or several highly controllable microorganisms that can precisely control their number and speed of reproduction, so that they can be banned by order, wouldn't it be possible to have the same kind of taste as you want?

Is this idea feasible?

Not possible for others.

But what Manor is best at is domestication, and Dad Zhuang now has a deep understanding of domesticating microorganisms.

And what Zhou Ye brought back was his finished product.

Although it is not as good as the sake he brews himself, the dependence on the environment and raw materials has been reduced to a minimum.

Then Dad Zhuang only needs to reproduce microorganisms and mix them well, and the matter of winemaking can be handed over to others.

"Can it really work?"

"Really, it won't be worse than any master's anyway." Zhou Ye complained.

Today, the wine made by this master really impressed him.

"How is that possible? Didn't you listen to other masters? It's snow water at an altitude of 2,000 meters, and it's only 2 degrees, and the water is as sharp as a knife, so that good wine can be brewed...... "The director stared, what about the craftsman spirit?"

Without the spirit of craftsmanship, what kind of wine can be made!

"Did Uncle Zhuang say anything about the precautions?"

"Got it."

"What?"

"Wash your hands before making sake!"