Chapter 13: Taibai Ju
"Finish work, go, go to Taibaiju." In the evening, Chen Jian returned to the laboratory, called Luo Feng, who was still thinking, and set off on his two-wheeled small electric vehicle.
Taibaiju is located on the outskirts of the city, and it is a craft beer bar that is quite famous in the circle of drinking friends in Nanshan City, and craft beer is an industry that has become popular rapidly in recent years.
Xia is a country with a unique wine culture and tradition. When ordinary people gradually become richer, they begin to be dissatisfied with the cookie-cutter beer in the big supermarket, but pursue more unique and more in line with their own tastes, and then craft beer jumps into the sight of drinking friends.
The brewing of beer has more personal style of the brewer, and the taste is richer, which greatly satisfies people's desire for novelty and taste.
Here you can drink bread-flavored and banana-flavored beers, such as German wheat beer priest and Borona. You can also drink toast, cloves, coriander seeds, bitter orange peel and other spices, such as Belgian wheat beer Fujia. There are also a variety of beers from all over the world, such as citrus-flavored rice wheat beer, Goose Island 312, and so on.
If you're a girl, you can try a variety of fruit beers, with flavors like cranberry, raspberry, strawberry, yellow peach, cherry, etc. There are also coffee, chocolate, and milk, only you can't think of it, and there is no winemaker who dare not play.
Different beers are paired with different wine glasses, such as the Holy Grail, the Pint Cup, the Pilsner Cup, the flute cup, and a special coaster with the origin of the beer.
As a relatively economically developed transportation hub city, Nanshan City has seen a lot of craft breweries pop up in recent years, and the main reason why Chen Jian chose this place is that the owner here, Jiang Jinjiu, is his iron buddy.
Taibaiju was originally a warehouse for farmers, but with the development of the city, the suburbs have gradually changed from farmland to high-tech development zones.
Jiang Jin Liquor bought an idle agricultural product warehouse and converted it into a bar, he said that when he bought it, it was clean here, and there was a well behind the warehouse, and the water quality was good, suitable for brewing.
But he didn't expect that after only a few years of hard work, the surrounding area has changed greatly, and his bar has become a good location adjacent to two economic development parks. Visitors are either engaged in IT or finance.
As the owner of the bar, Jiang Jin Liquor can be regarded as witnessing the wave of entrepreneurship of the times, and those who came to drink in the past began to brag after drinking high, hundreds of thousands, millions seem to be at their fingertips. Those who come to drink now, before they start drinking, are already tens of millions, hundreds of millions of people are coming. The world is sometimes more joyful than the comedy on stage.
When Jiang Jinjiu first arrived in Nanshan City, he met someone at the train station shouting to catch the thief, young and vigorous, and Jiang Jinjiu didn't say a word, threw down his luggage and went to chase, ran out of a hundred meters and kicked the thief to the ground with a flying leg, and then a "shoulder solid" of fighting joint skills, locked the thief to death, and when the police came to separate them, the thief felt that he was saved, and his arms and neck were about to break.
But when Jiang Jinjiu went back to look for his luggage, he found that he had already disappeared. Unexpectedly, he caught the thief himself, but his own luggage was stolen.
Just when Jiang Jinjiu, who suddenly became penniless, was thinking about what to eat and where to sleep at night, Chen Jian's father, who witnessed the whole process, pulled this brave young man back to his shop, and said with a smile: "I don't have anything else here, enough food!" ”
That year, Jiang Jinjiu was 17 years old and Chen Jian was 13 years old.
Therefore, Taibaiju naturally became a meeting place frequented by Chen Jian and his friends.
When they arrived at Taibaiju, it was already full, and a singer wearing a "Couple to Die" T-shirt and a slab head on the stage played the guitar and slowly sang "Nanshan Nan".
Liu Haoren sat in a booth with a "Reserved Seat" sign and lowered his head to play with his mobile phone, completely ignoring Chen Jian and Luo Feng coming in.
Chen Jian went up and slapped his stomach with a strong King Kong palm, Liu Haoren didn't raise his head, moved his buttocks, moved a seat, and shouted dissatisfiedly while moving his fingers: "It's dead, it's dead...... I almost killed you! I'm taking my family Ke'er to score, don't bother me, ask Brother Jiang for wine by yourself. ”
Ignoring this dead fat man of the opposite sex and inhumanity, Chen Jian walked to the bar and asked the bartender, "What about Brother Jiang?" ”
"Isn't it right here?" A clear voice came from under the bar.
Then a head rose up from under the bar, the appearance of the head owner is ordinary, only the two eyebrows are very eye-catching, his eyebrows are slender, straight as a sword, flying into the sideburns, it is this peculiar eyebrows that make him originally very ordinary appearance change the temperament is unique, such as a long sword out of the sheath, the spirit is flying, between the eyebrows, full of confidence and vitality.
"Brother Jiang...... Play this trick again. Chen Jian looked at Jiang Jinjiu speechlessly and waved his hand, and began to walk sideways to the left, descending his whole body as he walked, as if he was going down the stairs, and disappeared under the bar in a few steps, and then there was a little bit like going up the stairs, moving his body and rising.
This set of pantomime movements up and down the stairs has certain requirements for body control and stability, and the upper body should remain stable and unchanged, all relying on the changes in the legs, because there is a bar counter, only the upper body can be seen, which can make people look as if they are walking the stairs. In the past, Chen Jian imitated it several times, but it was not very successful.
But today, Chen Jian suddenly had an idea, "Alpha, imitate his movements just now." ”
Then turning sideways, Chen Jian also began to walk to the right, with each step, his knees bent a little, and after three steps it became a half-squat position, and after five steps he squatted completely, but his upper body always remained straight and did not shake. Turn around again, take a step at a time, and finally stand up straight.
With the help of the Alpha system, Chen Jian perfectly copied and imitated Jiang Jinjiu's movements, which gave him a further understanding of the function of Alpha.
The alpha system cannot directly control Chen Jian's body, every human action is completed by the brain through the nervous system to the muscles to send pulse signal instructions, and the alpha system can excite a guidance signal in advance in the neurons that need to give instructions before the brain gives instructions, telling the brain where the skeletal muscles are needed for the action, so that Chen Jian can exert the correct force. and strengthens body memory.
If a person learns to ride a bicycle, even if he hasn't ridden it for ten years, he will quickly operate it when he gets back on the bike, relying on human body memory, or muscle memory. But body memory is acquired by repeated practice, and body memory can also be forgotten, but the rate of forgetting is very slow.
The disadvantage of body memory is that once you remember the wrong movement, it is difficult to correct it, for example, when a person is learning to swim, the posture is wrong, and it takes many times longer to correct it than when you learn the wrong movement. With the help of Alpha, Chen Jian can gain body memories faster, and he will never forget, even if he wants to correct mistakes, he is very fast.
"Yes, it's finally time to practice. Come, brother will teach you a few more tricks to ensure that you will be invincible in bars and parties in the future! ”
"Don't don't, don't, you should keep the sister's routine to teach the fat man, he needs it more, I came to ask you some questions." Chen Jian hurriedly stopped Jiang Jinjiu and took out another poker painting.
"Fat guy, you see his spare tire is full of joy, rotten wood can't be carved. What do you drink? Jiang Jinjiu asked
"It's the same as before, it's still Qinglian No. 1." Qinglian is an IPA brewed by Taibaiju, and lotus seeds are added to the materials of winemaking, so it has a unique aroma and bitterness, of which No. 1 is the most fragrant and bitter, and Liu Haoren complained that where is this wine, it is simply a medicine.
When Jiang Jinjiu was developing Qinglian, Chen Jian was like a helper, and spent most of the summer vacation in Taibaiju. The first finished product was Qinglian No. 1, which was bitter but unusually clear, with a pale golden foam and a fragrant aroma.
The first sip is extremely bitter, but when you insist on taking a second sip despite the bitterness in your mouth, you will be greeted with a sweet taste that fills your mouth, a unique fragrance that seems to be in full bloom of lotus flowers, and a lingering aftertaste.
Chen Jian immediately became obsessed with this kind of bitter and then sweet beer, although the best-selling beer in Taibaiju was Qinglian No. 6, which had a lower bitterness and a warmer taste. But Chen Jian must order No. 1 every time he comes, and Jiang Jinjiu even jokingly said that if it weren't for Chen Jian, he wouldn't plan to brew No. 1 again.
The fat man Liu Haoren asked Chen Jian why he liked Qinglian No. 1 so much.
"If life can be bitter first and then sweet, then this sweetness is more worthy of expectation." Chen Jian replied with a smile and drank the wine in the cup in one gulp.