Everyone laughed, and Tan Er said, "Village Chief, I'm afraid you don't have much alcohol, and you get drunk with a small glass?" ”

Tan Shan defended: "I can drink one jar of Hakka wine, and I can also drink a few glasses of earth roast, why is the amount of wine poor?" It's obviously a good wine."

Xia Nan had no concept of ancient wine, and asked Sima De: "Does Mr. Sima drink alcohol on weekdays?" What makes a good wine? ”

Although Sima De was a small official in the Nanjing Military Department, after all, he was a person from the Sixth Department, and he was inevitably invited to banquets on weekdays and drank a lot of wine. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 He mused: "If you talk about good wine, you must first look at its color, then smell its aroma, and finally taste its taste." Pour the wine into the glass, its color should be thorough and free of impurities, put the wine glass two inches under the nose, smell its flavor lightly, to be full of aroma and finally taste, to distinguish whether the taste is mellow, swallow the first sip of wine with the tongue to the lips, the wine from the nose to see if it is pungent. Only when it has both color and flavor can it be called a good wine. ”

Xia Nan was quite embarrassed, he also drank a lot of wine in the old time and space, but he didn't have such an experience, look at others, and the theoretical experience of wine tasting is one after another. He turned his head and asked Lin Weiye: "Lao Lin also drinks bars?" What do you think distinguishes between good wine and hard wine? ”

Lin Weiye said: "Old Village Chief Tan is talking about bad wine, and Mr. Sima is talking about good wine. The essence of earth roast and good shochu is the same, in fact, they are both distilled spirits, which have a larger alcohol content and higher degree than brewed liquor. The difference between good and bad is the level of purity, the higher the purity of the impurities, the less impurities, the more mellow the taste, and the more delicate the fragrance, otherwise, it will be like what Village Chief Tan said, spicy and pungent, and the taste is very poor. ”

Xia Nan was speechless, a science and engineering man majoring in metallurgy, even if he could make guns and cannons, he could be said to be interested in the field of sailing, but he even knew the manufacturing process of liquor, so he could only be described as perverted.

He leaned over and whispered, "Don't tell me, your forum that travels through hobbies, will also prepare a full set of liquor making processes?" Are you going to get the Ming Emperor and the Manchu Tartars drunk to death with wine after the crossing? ”

"Hehe, it's not that boring. I am from Shandong, although the amount of alcohol is not good, but my parents drink it, and my uncle is the workshop director of the distillery, and when he is drunk on weekdays, he likes to pull me to brag about how good the liquor in their factory is. ”

No wonder, after admiring Lin Weiye's miscellaneous studies, Xia Nan asked Sima De: "Mr. Sima, how much silver does the kind of good wine you said sell, and how much does it sell?" ”

"If it's Shaoxing Huadiao or the like, it doesn't cost anything per catty, and I drink less soju, so I don't know the price. This is the price before, but now there are disasters everywhere, there is a shortage of food, the price of rice is high, and I am afraid that the price of good wine has doubled again. And good wine is generally difficult to drink, there are only those well-known wineries from the south to the north, and they can't produce a few jars of wine a year, and the easy to drink is not good wine, which is slightly stronger than the earth burning. ”

"What is the relationship between the price of wine and the price of rice?" In the summer, Nan only drinks alcohol and does not understand the process of sake brewing.

Lin Weiye replied on his behalf: "Shochu generally uses grains as raw materials, rice is used in the south, and wheat is used in the north, so this kind of wine is delicious." Good wine costs a few catties of grain to produce a catty of wine, and now many places can't eat rice, who else uses grain to make wine, do you say that the price of rice has anything to do with the price of wine? ”

"I see. Can't it be replaced with other raw materials? ”

"It's not impossible, potatoes and the like are fine, but the taste can't catch up with the wine made from grain, besides" Lin Weiye approached him a little and whispered: "The large-scale promotion of potatoes is still in the Qing Dynasty, and it is not popular in the Ming Dynasty."

Xia Nan nodded and said to himself: "So, if you want to make high-end wine, you have to use staple food as raw materials, which is a bit luxurious."

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the imperial court, the Houjin or the displaced people, grain was the first important strategic resource. The reason why the displaced people in the late Ming Dynasty were so powerful and could not be eradicated was because of the severe drought in northern Shaanxi, there was no harvest, and the imperial court was unable to provide disaster relief, and the people had no food to eat, so they naturally rebelled.

Sima De added: "Not to mention that the food is urgent, even if there is surplus grain to make wine, there is no skilled wine master, but the grain is wasted." Those time-honored wineries, the skills of winemaking are inherited from the son and never passed on, where do we go to find such talents? ”

Speaking of the wine-making process, it reminded Lin Weiye, and he tried to ask: "Has Mr. Sima ever heard of Erguotou?" ”

Sima De shook his head blankly: "I have drunk Fenjiu and koji wine, but I have never heard of Erguotou." ”

Lin Weiye laughed and had a plan in his heart.

If he remembers correctly, Erguotou did not appear until the Qing Dynasty improved the process of soju. Erguotou is a well-known liquor in the north, and it is also very good in modern times, and the raw material used is sorghum, with bran koji as saccharification and starter agent, compared with rice and wheat as raw materials of Daqu and Xiaoqu Shochu, the process flow is simple, the production time is short, the cost is low, and the output is large, so it is the most suitable for the soju market to impact this time and space. The most important thing is that no one else knows the craftsmanship of this wine, and there is no other branch of this wine.

He told Xia Nan: "Mr. Sima reminded me that it is difficult to find a skilled master, but as long as I find an ordinary brewer, I can make a unique shochu." It may not surpass the best shochu, but it is better than the output is stable and large. And you don't use rice, you don't use wheat, you just use sorghum! ”

"Oh?" Not only Xia Nan, but everyone's interest was aroused. Although the people present are from high and low backgrounds, and there are few who do not drink, as Sima De said, good wine is difficult to drink, and it is not good wine that is easy to drink, if there is really such good wine, and you can drink it if you want to, it is really a blessing for good drinkers.

Xia Nan is most concerned about the uniqueness and stable production of this wine, with these two points, it will be able to seize the market, and if the cost of raw materials is low, it will be better if it does not have to occupy grain. He itched in his heart and asked, "What kind of wine is so good, could it be that it is really a second pot head?" ”

"It's the second pot head! Don't underestimate it, the raw materials are cheap, the cost is low, the output is large, and there is no problem with a little packaging to hit the mid-end market. As for why it's unique, let me tell you more about it later. "When it comes to the time difference between the Ming and Qing dynasties, Lin Weiye really can't say it in public, so he can only inform Xia Nan, who is also a traverser.

Hearing Lin Weiye say this, everyone avoided this problem with interest, the advanced technology should be kept secret, and there are many people!

Although Xia Nan didn't understand it a little, but in terms of technical issues, he had always believed in Lin Weiye unconditionally, and since he was so sure, he was sure. Immediately clapped: "If others don't have a better suggestion, then give the second pot of tou, this new shochu!" ”

To be continued.