Chapter Seventy-Nine: Distillation
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In the afternoon, Lu Ya was taking a nap in his room when he heard someone knocking on the door, so he rubbed his eyes and went to open the door, and found that it was Ah Zhu who knocked on the door.
"Young patriarch, the wine has already been served, I specially brought a bowl for you to taste"
It was only then that Lu Ya discovered that Ah Zhu was holding a wooden bowl in his hand, and it was the culprit who made Lu Ya have no energy all day today, and the beast ignored the wine.
Looking at Azhu's expectant eyes, Lu Ya gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, pinched his nose, and took a sip, and found that the taste was similar to what he had drunk before, with a sour and astringent taste.
"Aunt Azhu didn't expect you to be so powerful, and you have made wine in just a few days," Lu Ya handed the bowl to her again.
"The young patriarch has won the award, and I also used the introduction brought from the Qishui tribe to do it directly, in fact, there is nothing difficult about this winemaking" Ah Zhu was praised a little embarrassed.
"Aunt Azhu, you don't have to be modest, you will be the winemaker of our tribe in the future, I hope you can make better wine, and if this wine is not so astringent, it would be good, Auntie, you will experiment more, don't be afraid of waste, while producing experiments, you can also use white rice or something"
"Okay, I'll listen to the young patriarch, try my best to make better wine, I'll go back first" Ah Zhu turned around and left after speaking.
Lu Ya, who was no longer sleepy, staggered and came to the blacksmithing area again, and in the ironing area he found the white-clothed priest named Quirrell, at this moment he and Kroger were dirty and released the Pullback Charm to the blacksmithing slaves, both of them knew each other before, but they never thought that the two would fall to this point together, but they thought that these two people also had a companion, and they would not be too lonely.
Lu Ya found the old man in the blast furnace, who was originally studying how to fill and fry steel. As a result, Lu Ya was pulled aside and muttered for an afternoon, and then the next day, Lu Ya got two iron pots with steamers from the old man iron, and an iron pipe of very poor quality, this is what Lu Ya and the old man iron studied all afternoon, used as a distilled spirit, a simple distillation device, for the crooked iron pipe that seemed to be leaking everywhere, the old man's little beard was removed a lot by him, even so, it could only be made of a barely hollow iron pipe.
After ordering Xiong Da and Xiong Er to wash these tools several times, Lu Ya commanded the two to assemble them. After assembling it, Lu Ya poured the two jars of freshly brewed Beastbuli wine he had brought from Ah Zhu into the steamer and lit charcoal under the pot.
As time went on, Lu Ya nervously calculated the temperature in the country, and from time to time he would order Xiong Da and the two to withdraw or add firewood, while he stared intently at the wine outlet.
After about ten minutes, finally the first drop of transparent wine dripped out of the wine outlet in Lu Ya's expectant eyes, seeing this situation, Lu Ya hurriedly ordered the two to control the fire, and then took an empty wine jar and put it under the wine outlet.
From the first drop of wine after the speed gradually increased, the wine drops gradually refined into a thin line left, until more than half an hour after the outflow of the wine industry gradually decreased, but in this half an hour, the entire tribe was almost attracted by a strong aroma of wine, when Lu Ya ordered to extinguish the fire, picked up the wine jar and stood up, only to find that the surrounding people, especially those young and strong clansmen, looked at the wine jar in Lu Ya's hand as if he saw a poop dog, all of them were glowing.
"Ahem~ This young patriarch, what are you holding in your hand" Johnson stood at the front, staring directly at the wine jar in Lu Ya's hand and asked knowingly.
“······” Lu Ya looked at them helplessly, and then could only order someone to bring a few more bowls.
It didn't take half a minute for someone to come back with a stack of bowls with a big face.
"This bowl you hold is bigger than my jar·····"
Lu Ya was helpless, and gave each bowl the size of his face to the bottom of a bowl, and before he could say slow down, more than a dozen sea bowls were snatched up, and the person who grabbed the bowl poured down the distilled liquor with three taels in one gulp as soon as he raised his neck.
And then there was a silence...
"Uh-a-cough~~"
"Ahem~~"
"Hiss~ cough, it's so spicy, it's so enjoyable..."
"Oh my God, there's such a delicious wine in the world."
"Yes, what kind of wine is this, is it a beast ignoring wine, why doesn't it taste sour at all?"
"Why, do you still want that sour taste, this is wine?"
"yes..."
After drinking the wine in the bowl, all the clansmen blushed and began to talk about it, but in the process, their eyes never left the wine jar in Lu Ya's hand.
"Let's go, go, go~ Disperse, this is not a finished product, and it will be steamed a few more times" Lu Ya didn't understand what they meant, and held the wine jar in his arms and didn't dare to let go.
"It's okay, we can wait"
"yes, yes"
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Since the introduction of firearms and body armor, the number of people who go out to hunt has decreased considerably, and there is not much work to do in the winter, so there are more idlers in the tribe.
"If you have nothing to do, go and help Uncle Rip make bricks, don't cat here" After finally driving away those idlers, Lu Ya and Xiong Da Xiong Er have been busy for a morning, distilling 10 jars of Beast Ignorance Original Brew, these are already all the output of Ah Zhu in the past few days, but Lu Ya also greeted Ah Zhu and told her that she could increase the production.
For a whole morning, the Blackstone tribe was immersed in the aroma of wine, and even the old patriarch who rarely went out was attracted by the aroma of wine, and then after tasting a small sip, his eyes immediately widened in surprise, but Lu Ya told him that this was only a preliminary distillation, and he would have to steam it a few more times, and he was going to make some high-degree wine for disinfectant alcohol.
This preliminarily distilled beast buli liquor Lu Ya tasted it, and it could be about 20 degrees, which made him feel not very satisfied, and Lu Ya estimated that this was due to the improper control of the temperature of his distillation.
In the afternoon, Lu Ya specially called Ah Zhu over and taught the tribal winemaker how to distill, in fact, he only taught her the principle of distillation, as for how to distill to get a purer taste of wine, it is not what Lu Ya knows.
After watching the distillation process once, Ah Zhu expressed his surprise at Lu Ya who came up with this method, and of course Lu Ya could not tell him that it was plagiarized by him, so he could only reluctantly accept Ah Zhu's adoring eyes for an afternoon.
Until the evening, Lu Ya distilled the 10 jars of original brew 4 times, distilled to the end only to get less than one jar of high liquor, when the 4th distillation, Lu Ya found that it was no longer possible to increase the degree through distillation, according to his own taste of a few drops of the rest of the wine has been more than seventy or eighty degrees, can barely be used as alcohol, and can only be used as alcohol, because in the third distillation, there is no wine aroma in the wine, and the rest of the distillation is the taste of ethanol.
"Young patriarch, now the degree of these wines is very high, but they don't have any taste, what's the use" Ah Zhu also knew the word alcohol after hearing and seeing.
"Its usefulness is not small, for example, the wound of a traumatic injury can be wiped with it to prevent wound infection and inflammation, it can be made into bone-setting wine by soaking it with some medicinal herbs, and some injuries such as joint injuries and muscle injuries can be rubbed with it, and for example, it can also be used to make an alcohol stove, so that it is easy to hide without smoke when lighting a fire in the wild, etc...." Lu Ya casually thought about the effect of a few alcohols and told Ah Zhu, but Ah Zhu was stunned for a moment, muttering that he would distill all the wine into alcohol.
"Aunt Azhu, although this alcohol is very useful, it is not used so much, and your task is to experiment a lot and strive to make a high-degree and good-tasting wine."
Lu Ya hurriedly explained to Ah Zhu, he was afraid that she would really steam all the beasts into alcohol, so who would he sell them to...
"Okay, I know, I'll try more when I drink again tomorrow"
For the next two days, Lu Ya drank Ah Zhu every day and worked around the still, Ah Zhu's mind was really much more delicate than Lu Ya, she tasted the liquor distilled at each stage, and later let her find that the first and last steamed out of a small part of the wine tasted the worst, so she put the head and tail of each distillation together separately, and put the rest of the wine together, as a result, Lu Ya's eyes immediately widened when he tasted it, and now the taste of this wine is definitely several times better than the wine that Lu Ya steamed together a few days ago.
Knowing that he couldn't help much, Luya went to Rip's place to have a look, and found that Rip's brick-burning work was also on the right track, and at Ruya's suggestion, they also moved the location of the brick-burning kiln, otherwise the smoke and dust from the brick-burning would be all over the tribe.
The old man of the iron also made a special trip to ask about it, and learned that now he can pull back a cart of iron ore almost every two days, which is completely enough for him to toss, and he is also relieved, but although compared with burning bricks, the pollution of burning the blast furnace is not smaller than it at all, but considering the safety and confidentiality and other reasons, Lu Ya still did not let the old man iron move the iron area outside the tribe.
At last Ruya gave the jar of alcohol to Aunt Kama, and told her what the alcohol did and how to use it, and when he returned to the room, Ruya went through everything again, and then found that he had not missed anything, and then went to the old patriarch's hut.
"Patriarch Grandpa, I'm coming"
"Little Rua is here, come in"
"Patriarch Grandpa, it shouldn't rain now, you should fence up the skins earlier, you are old and it is very cold at night, don't freeze, wait for a while, Uncle Rip's bricks have burned enough, just build a fireplace for Grandpa first" Lu Ya sat on a stool and looked at the light coming in through the cracks in the wooden wall and said with some worry.
"Okay, grandpa knows, let's say, what's the matter" The old patriarch touched Lu Ya's head with a smile and said.
"Patriarch Grandpa, I'm ready to go to Juli City"