Tang Dynasty Mingyue Song Dynasty Pass

Chapter 21 Distilled Alcohol

At night, the bright moon hangs high and the breeze comes, and the whole courtyard is filled with the fragrance of plants and flowers.

Under the night, Su Chen was still working hard, because he already felt the competitive pressure of the candied fruit business, which would increase day by day, and the final sales and profits would shrink further.

Therefore, he had to consider that other products should be accelerated, released ahead of schedule, and brought to the market.

At present, the soap technology has been mastered, and the soap has basically been formed. He is suffering from the restriction of sales channels. He is not familiar with the place here, and it is a difficult problem to find a large number of buyers.

The best plan is to find a reliable giant or a strong family as a business partner, provide the technology and get half of the shares; let his partner provide manpower, materials, and be responsible for market sales, which is the most trouble-free. You don't have to worry about it, just wait and collect the money.

However, if you don't have a trusted partner, this kind of thinking seems naive. If you find a big businessman, it is very likely that just after it is revealed, people will turn their faces and deny the secret recipe, or even kill them.

Remove the method of finding a partner, and you can only produce and sell it yourself.

The worst plan is to set up a stall to sell it, but this thing is hugely profitable and new, and it is easy to attract the attention of the wealthy, merchants, and officials from all over the world.

At present, the relatively safe way is to take a few dozen yuan, disguise, and then go to a restaurant or a brothel to sell it quietly, and then take the money and make a fortune after selling it.

"Hey, it's really troublesome. In ancient times, apart from having no status in business, it was difficult to guarantee life safety. Only when one's assets were strong, with the protection of the family's nursing home, and the yamen's relationship covered, could he live a stable and profitable life. days!" Su Chen sighed softly, for the time being, there was no better way.

This doesn't work, that doesn't work, the feudal society does a lot of harm!

Yang Linger came over and asked, "Brother Su Chen, what are you doing?"

"Try making wine!"

"Wine?" Yang Linger was speechless.

Su Chen nodded: "Yes, most of the wines on the market today are rice wine and yellow rice wine, and the alcohol content is too low. Many heroes drink a lot of alcohol, so they should not be able to drink it. If the alcohol content can be increased, then the supply of this kind of wine will be large. It can bring us a lot of wealth.”

The ancient wine was mainly made of rice, millet, corn and other grains as the main raw materials, so it can also be called "rice wine". After that, it also contained a lot of fine rice dregs, and it appeared cloudy, which was called "turbid sake" at that time.Therefore, in Du Fu's "Ascension to the Heights", there is a verse of "hardship, bitterness, hatred, and frost on the temples, and the new stop turbid wine glass"!

In addition to this type of "turbid wine", a clear-looking sake appeared during the Tang and Song Dynasties. This kind of wine is often brewed in winter and summer, and becomes clear liquor after precipitation and fermentation. Similar, but with a sweeter taste, it is basically exclusive to the royal aristocracy.As described in Li Bai's poems: "The golden bottle of sake is worth [-], and the jade plate is worth [-]."

At the end of the Song Dynasty, after the nomads introduced distillation technology from the north to the Central Plains, the domestic alcohol content has since increased.In the Ming Dynasty, the heroes did not dare to drink in large bowls, but began to drink in small sips.

If Wu Song lived in the Ming Dynasty, he would never be able to drink eighteen bowls of liquor before going to fight tigers.

"Brother Su Chen, do you know how to make wine?" Yang Ling'er was suspicious, because the previous Su Chen was a lazy, lazy boy, and he had never seen him learn how to make wine!

"This... a little understanding, it takes trial and error!"

Based on the high school physics knowledge in his mind, Su Chen knew that to increase the degree of alcohol, distillation was required. The principle of this distillation technique was actually very simple, that is, the temperature required for alcohol to become gas is lower than that for water to become gas.

Because the vaporization point of alcohol is 78.3°C, vaporized alcohol can be obtained by reaching and maintaining this temperature. If the vaporized alcohol is fed into the pipeline for cooling, it is liquid alcohol.

However, the process from the processing of rice raw materials to the brewing of wine is relatively complicated. The complete process has to undergo repeated fermentations, which requires not only many tools in the winery, but also more than half a year of brewing time.

Therefore, Su Chen did not plan to brew from scratch for the time being, but used the purchased rice wine for reprocessing and distillation to purify the exact concentration.

In the middle of the night, Su Chen was in the small courtyard. According to the method of making alcohol, he used fire to heat the rice wine he bought to a higher temperature, but he couldn't control it below the boiling point of water. He covered it with an iron pipe to guide the vaporized alcohol. After cooling in the vessel next to it, it condensed little by little, and liquid alcohol gradually appeared.

After many tests, it has been purified to a high degree of wine, but only three catties of rice wine can produce a small half catty of high-purity wine, which makes the price of this wine higher.

Su Chen was still not satisfied, so he continued to distill and repeated many times, and finally got a high concentration of alcohol of about two taels, which can be used for disinfection and sterilization in the future, and there is no need to worry about bacterial infection if there are bumps and skin injuries.Otherwise, in this era of no anti-inflammatory drugs, it is very likely that a small wound will become infected, and if you are unlucky, you may die.

"Ling'er, bring some cotton balls!"

"Okay!" Yang Ling'er entered the room and brought some cotton.

Su Chen took it in his hand, rubbed it into a small ball, dipped it in alcohol, took off his coat, and wiped the bruised and broken skin on his body to disinfect and sterilize it.

"Brother Su Chen, what are you doing?"

"Disinfection!" Su Chen just wanted to try the feeling, a little professional reflex.

Yang Linger asked again, "Aren't we making candied haws tonight?"

She was a little strange. Tonight Su Chen has been tinkering with drinks, but he didn't make candied gourds. Isn't he going to sell it tomorrow?

Su Chen explained: "There are many imitators on the street today, and they are all selling candied gourds, such as Zhang Ji, Wang Ji, Cui Ji, Li Ji, and many streets and alleys have appeared one after another. This business is no longer easy to do. We can make a living, but it is difficult to make a lot of money to pay off huge debts, so we need to find another way.”

"So that's how it is!" Yang Ling'er frowned, a worried look on her pretty face.

Su Chen got up, stroked her hair and said, "Don't worry, my brother is already thinking of other ways. I won't go out to sell candied haws tomorrow. I'll go up the mountain to pick up a kind of Panax notoginseng herbs, and prepare the best medicine for golden sore. It can speed up the recovery of my injuries, and I can also carry it with me to increase safety in the future. By the way, I can relax for a day, relax outside the city, and consider the next big money-making plan!"

After Yang Ling'er heard it, although she didn't fully understand, she still chose to trust him completely, put her head in his arms, and said softly, "Listen to Brother Su Chen!"

(End of this chapter)