Chapter 286: The Dionysian Controversy

See this bartending test venue. Ji Dong realized that Du Sikang was not modest before and didn't want to take advantage of himself. From the arrangement of these thousands of precious wines, it can be seen that he is bound to win. There is no doubt that as the president of the Bartenders Guild, he must be very familiar with these wines, and the placement on this wine cabinet is definitely the most suitable for him. Such an advantage does need to be balanced by a comparative approach.

Du Sikang took off his coat and handed it to an elderly bartender, his expression had become solemn, to Ji Dong's surprise, Du Sikang was obviously a little guilty and ashamed before, but when he saw the bartending table and the thousand kinds of wine in the wine cabinet, all his emotions had been replaced by fanaticism. It was a realm that only bartenders of their level could understand, and there was nothing other than wine.

Ji Dong found that he still looked down on this god of wine, and he saw his own shadow before coming to this world from Du Sikang. The name of the god of wine is indeed well deserved. I thought that the change in mood would have an impact on him when he tried bartending with him, but now it seems that he is too worried.

However, this is also the situation that Ji Dong wants to see the most, after all, after just coming to this world. He heard the name of Du Sikang, the god of wine, and it can be said that he was the first person to mix wine on the Bright Five Elements Continent before he came to this world. What is the point of being a generation of wine gods, in a sense, he is the same person as Du Sikang, that is, he is absolutely confident in his own bartending skills. As a bartender at the top of your game, you will never lose such confidence. At this time, he can finally compete with Du Sikang in the real sense.

It is precisely because he saw Du Sikang's eyes that the unhappiness in Ji Dong's heart before was gone, and the god of wine in front of him was able to fight for the source of life at the risk of revenge, which shows how persistent his attitude towards wine is. He can even give up everything, including his own fame, for the sake of wine. Such a bartender is absolutely respectable.

Du Sikang made a gesture of invitation to Ji Dong, and he walked behind another bartender table, the light in his eyes becoming more and more hot. He hadn't been under such pressure in the bartending world for years, and now that feeling is finally back. For him, this feeling is wonderful and what he is looking forward to, and only under such pressure can his bartending skills be fully developed, and even make a breakthrough. Of course, he didn't think that this pressure was brought to him by Ji Dong, but the desire for the source of life for a thousand years. No matter how weak Ji Dong's bartending strength is, he will definitely go all out today. Let the source of life fall into your own hands without regrets, and fall into the hands of the bartenders guild.

Ji Dong walked to the bartending table opposite Du Sikang and stood still, the two looked at each other, Du Sikang was surprised to find that although he did not see the same enthusiasm and persistence as himself in Ji Dong's eyes, what he saw was unparalleled self-confidence, absolute self-confidence. The calm and clear gaze is bottomless, but there is no half of tension, and the whole person looks so calm.

"Mr. Ji Dong, please suggest a way to learn from each other. Du Sikang said in a deep voice.

Ji Dong said: "Since it is a competition, then we should show our bartending ability from all aspects." It's better to do this, and the winner will be determined by three games. Two wins in three games. What do you think?"

Du Sikang nodded and said, "No matter what kind of competition it is, you are in charge." ”

"Good. Ji Dong's eyes lit up, and like Du Sikang, he hadn't felt this excitement from bartending for a long, long time. Not even when facing Ray Fury. The draw between him and Fury at that time was itself of his own making. Although Fury's bartending ability is strong, there is still a slight gap between him and him, and for the truly top bartenders, even a slight gap is an insurmountable gap. The Du Sikang in front of him represents the world's pinnacle bartending power. What's more, by his side, there are flames watching. This bartending was also his gift to Blaze. He and Blaze were bonded by wine, so how could he not give it his all?

"In the first session, we mixed wine with a single bottle, and each chose the base wine and ingredients according to their own techniques. In the second game, we had a multi-bottle competition, and we also chose our own base wine and ingredients. And in the last one, we mix a glass of wine with each other, and the other imitates it. What do you think?"

Listening to the method of competition proposed by Ji Dong, Du Sikang's pupils shrank significantly, not because of how harsh the method proposed by Ji Dong, on the contrary, the three competition methods mentioned by Ji Dong are the three most common and the fairest three among bartenders. Is he really that confident?

Taking a deep breath, Du Sikang faintly felt that the young man in front of him might really be unique in mixology. But how could he have less confidence in himself? He is a genius bartender, and it only took ten years from entering the bartenders guild to becoming a generation of wine gods. In the past 30 years, no one in the bartending industry across the continent has been unmatched, and naturally no one has been able to shake his position as the president of the bartender guild.

"Good. Then let's get started. Du Sikang didn't say much, feeling the blazing and intense excitement in his body, and the whole person had completely entered the state.

The bartenders around them all widened their eyes, and Du Ming and Du Xin'er also knew that it was impossible to interfere with this competition at this time, so they all watched quietly from the sidelines.

Only the flames. Walked slowly to a short distance from Ji Dong's bartending table, and looked at him through the veil on the hat. Except for Ji Dong herself, she is the only one present who has absolute confidence in Ji Dong.

Ji Dong and Du Sikang walked to the hand purification pool next to their respective bartenders almost at the same time, and began to wash their hands seriously. The palms, fingers, fingers, fingernails, and even every texture on the hands are cleaned with great care. If an outsider sees them washing their hands like this, they will definitely poof. However, the senior bartenders present all understood that washing their hands completely is not only a sign of respect for the bartending, but also to prevent any trace of taste on their hands from affecting their judgment of the wine. Who would be sloppy in this kind of top-level matchup?

Almost at the same time, they washed their hands and returned to the bartender at the same time, and each of them took out an identical crystal shaker from under the bartender. Since it is a fair competition, the competition is about the techniques and the skills of bartending, not the bartending tools, so all the tools in this competition are exactly the same.

Until this moment, almost everything that the two Bacchus had done was a mirror image, and the two looked at each other in the air, and the next moment, they had already started their first bartending at the same time.

Du Sikang doesn't need to see with his eyes at all. can also clearly grasp the position of each bottle of wine in the wine cabinet behind him, which is originally placed according to what he is best at, and it is also the position of his own wine cabinet. Without looking back, his arm flung backwards as if it had been broken, and in an instant, three bottles of wine appeared on the bartender in front of him.

However, to Du Sikang's slight surprise, Ji Dong also didn't look back, didn't even make a move, three faint red lights flashed, and there were three more bottles of wine on the bartender table in front of him. And these three bottles of wine are exactly the same as those selected by Du Sikang.

But. Du Sikang didn't think about how Ji Dong did this, because at this moment, there was no Ji Dong in his eyes, and only the existence of the three bottles of wine in front of him remained.

Ji Dong, like Du Sikang, looked down and fell on the three bottles of wine, and he saw the wine cabinet behind him for the first time. But when he glanced at it before, his spiritual power, which had been improved after ten transformations, had firmly remembered the location of each bottle of wine. The reason why he chose the same wine as Du Sikang was to compete with his opponent on the same kind of bartending.

The three base wines chosen by Du Sicong are vodka, Cointreau orange and almond brandy. These are three completely different wines.

Vodka is similar to filtered purified alcohol with purified water. There is no additional flavor on the one hand. It is widely used in base wines, but only by diluting other base wines and ingredients to produce auxiliary effects.

Cointreau Orange Liquor, also known as Cointreau Orange Liqueur, is a liqueur with the aroma of sweet and sour tangerine. It is the core ingredient of many famous cocktails,

To achieve perfect Cointreau, it is necessary to obtain the essence of sweet and bitter orange peel by distillation, which is then mixed with high-quality pure alcohol, sugar, and water, and finally synthesized an absolute fine finished liquor with an alcohol content of 40%. All the careful selection in the whole process is to ensure that the taste is pure and moderate.

As a result, Cointreau's taste is unique, mellow and rich. Although the blend is balanced, it gives a refreshing taste experience with a strong and mild, cool but warm, bitter and sweet contrast. When first poured into the glass, it has a crystal clear color, but when it is added on the rocks, it transforms into a milky white color, with light floral and fruity aromas, followed by a burst of intense orange aromas. The overall feeling is a cool, subtle, complex and lingering aftertaste of temperature.

Obviously, there is a fixed gap between Ji Dong and Du Sikang, that is, he does not have the ability to make ice, which is a congenital disadvantage. But even if he hasn't opened the cap yet, Ji Dong can still feel the perfect perfection of the bottle of Cointreau orange in front of him.

The last base liquor is almond brandy, brandy in general, mostly referring to grape distilled spirits. This almond brandy, on the other hand, is a distilled liquor made from almonds, which is more complicated to make. But it also has a unique taste. Intense on the palate with a hint of almonds, it is not as famous as Cointreau Orange, but it is undoubtedly an excellent wine. It's just that it never appears as a base on its own.

The cocktails brought by the three base wines with different tastes and origins will naturally be ever-changing, with different bartenders. It's possible to create different results. In the future, there are already staff members who have sent ingredients to Ji Dong and Du Sikang respectively, the same ingredients, there is no need to order them at all, and the staff of the Bartenders Guild also know what they should go with.

The ingredients are two, pomegranate pulp and lemon juice.

The cocktail made from these three base liquors and two ingredients is the famous Midnight Sun, and it is also a kind of liquor that Ji Dong used to make for the flames. I don't know if it's a heart, this was originally one of the several cocktails that Ji Dong wanted to choose in the first game, and since Du Sikang chose it, Ji Dong had no reason to choose anything else.

The caps of the shakers were still on at the same time in the mirror-like opening of the two sides, and both Ji Dong and Du Sikang had their hands steady, with four tenths of vodka, two-tenths of Cointreau's orange, two-tenths of almond brandy, one-tenth of pomegranate pulp, and one-tenth of lemon juice. There was not the slightest difference in the amount that the two men added to the shaker. None of the residue dripped on the bartender.

The three base wines, the liquid mixed with the two ingredients sparkle in the crystal flask by the light from outside, and some cloudy liquids soak into each other.

When the lid of the shaker was closed, Ji Dong and Du Sikang's movements stopped, and they also surprisingly reappeared as a mirror image, and closed their eyes at the same time. Everyone's nerves couldn't help but become tense at this moment, because they knew that this peak showdown was finally about to start in earnest.

The mirror image was broken in the next moment, and the hands of the two were raised almost at the same time, the difference was that Ji Dong only raised his right hand, while Du Sikang raised both hands.

Ji Dong's right hand swept towards the bottom of the crystal shaker on the bartender like lightning, and in an instant, the brilliance flashed, and the shaker had spun rapidly and flew into the air.

And what Du Sikang did was completely different, his hands pressed towards the bartender at the same time, and two rich black water magic power surged out, one after the other, under the effect of these two magic powers, the entire bartender spun rapidly on the bartender like a top.

From the very beginning of the competition, the two showed completely different bartending styles. Ji Dong mainly relies on his pure skills, while Du Sikang, the god of wine, completely combines his bartending skills with magic. This competition of the Dionysian battle kicked off at this moment, and until this moment, only Flame was the only one who believed that Ji Dong would win. Among the others, only Du Ming still has some confidence in Ji Dong.

The same flasks, the same mixed liquids, at this moment, began to bloom with their dazzling brilliance.