Tiger on the Party Chapter 15 The Party Brews Yao Chi Liquid
The newlywed Yan'er, Zhao Xing, who was supposed to be entangled between G, took his wife back to M-N on the third day after marriage, and it was three months long. (_
As early as when he was engaged, Zhao Xing agreed to the Xu family's request, promising to pick a man who he and Xu Wanting would inherit the Xu family's property in the future, and change his surname to Xu. At first, the father and son of the Xu family were worried that Zhao Xing would not agree, and he might miss a good nv son-in-law. However, for Zhao Xing, the concept of surname is not as strong as that of the ancients, not to mention that as long as he works hard and hard, his son will not want as much as he wants in the future?
After coming to the Xujia Distillery, Zhao Xing and Xu Mantang and his son carefully studied the improvement measures and methods of the liquor process. Because of the in-depth research done before, Zhao Xing has a comprehensive understanding of the liquor process of this period.
At that time, most of the liquor in the Bingzhou area was made by solid fermentation, and some auxiliary materials needed to be added during fermentation to adjust the starch concentration, maintain the softness of the fermented grain, and maintain the slurry. Commonly used auxiliary materials are rice husks, grain bran, sorghum husks, etc.
In addition to raw materials and accessories, koji is also required. Koji is a crude enzyme preparation that uses starch-containing raw materials as a medium to cultivate a variety of molds and accumulate a large amount of amylase. Why Moutai can only be produced in Moutai Town, it is said that the same mold flora can only be obtained by following the original cellar that has been handed down, and once it leaves, it will not work, which is why Moutai cannot be produced in large quantities. (The specific process and process of brewing liquor will not be repeated here in Nandao, they are all professional terms, you are tired of reading it, and I am tired of writing it.)
Through analysis, Zhao Xing realized that China's liquor technology was quite complete at that time, but due to the limitations of science and technology, there were still some problems that were difficult to overcome.
For example, because of the lack of distillation and extraction technology, the degree of soju (liquor is generally difficult to exceed 35 degrees, and the 72-degree liquor like "Hengshui Laobaigan" was unimaginable at that time.
Because of the lack of live X-ng carbon purification technology, liquor should actually be called "turbid liquor", which is generally turbid, and is not at all as translucent as mineral water is now.
Because there was no bartending technology and no additives such as fragrant jīng, the aroma of baijiu was not as strong as it is now.
The reason why Zhao Xing knows so much is that he had a cousin who was a bartender in his previous life, and the two of them played together since they were children, and they often drank and farted together.
Zhao Xing put forward his own knowledge and opinions, and some winemaking processes that would only appear in later generations were also vaguely described and explained by him. Although Xu Mantang's father and son didn't fully understand what they heard, they agreed very much with some of the key points.
Just talk about it, don't practice fake tricks. In the following days, Zhao Xing and Xu Mantang father and son devoted themselves to improving the liquor brewing process, Zhao Xing was mainly responsible for the development of live X-ng charcoal, Xu Mantang was responsible for the research of liquor distillation and purification technology, and Xu Qingyuan (Xu Wanting's grandfather was responsible for simple fragrance addition methods.
After more than two months of trial and error, Xu Mantang and his son have made a breakthrough in what they are responsible for, while Zhao Xing's live X-ng charcoal production has not yet succeeded.
In a hurry, Zhao Xing ran to the local charcoal kiln to learn from the charcoal master in person, and regardless of the weather that was already burning in July, he crawled in and out with sweat and ashes, which was a bit of Comrade Zhang Side's jīng god. The hard work paid off, under the guidance of the knowledge of the previous life, and with the unremitting efforts of Comrade Zhao Xing, the simplified version of the living x-ng charcoal was finally made by Zhao Xing.
The next thing is much simpler, the specific production by Xu Mantang father and son asked, Zhao Xing from time to time put forward some ideas for improvement, originally he was still wondering whether to put out the glass firing technology also out, for the upcoming Shangdang pot wine with a transparent bottle, but thinking that Shanxi is mainly coal-producing, the origin of kaolin really can't remember where, so he had to wait until the future to send people to the Western Regions to learn this technology.
When the first pot of liquor brewed with improved technology was placed on Zhao Xing's desk, Xu Mantang and his son looked at Zhao Xing nervously. But so that the master can be drunk, and he does not know where it is!"
"Good poetry!" Li Jinsi on the side couldn't help but praise.
"It's so wet! Li Jinwu complained with a look on his face.
"Good wine and good poetry really complement each other!" Xu Mantang looked excited.
"Why don't you let Xiaoxing choose a well-known name for our new wine?" Xu Wanting also said happily.
With a stroke of his pen, Zhao Xing wrote down the words "Changhe Daqu" on the paper, and casually explained: "Chang, which means Changzi County, and He, which means the Yellow River, can be interpreted as the Yellow River has made a big bend here, and also means that the new style of big koji used in our soju process is different from the original small koji." What do you think of the name?"
The crowd applauded.
"The Great Song of the Long River" has been famous all over the world since then!
In the long years, I don't know how many civil servants and military generals, literati sao guests, and pawn peddlers got drunk in the good wine brewed by the party. I lost my sorrow for eternity, I didn't know where it was, I forgot the pain in my heart, and I forgot the sorrow of "1u-n people in the world are as cheap as dogs......