The Rise of Primitive Tribes Farming

Chapter 414 Brewing Rice Wine

A few days later, the fleet led by Bibo returned to the tribe.

After unloading the cargo, Bibo personally went to Chenbei's yard to plead guilty.

In the yard, Chen Bei was making distiller's yeast.

Although the Mang tribe already has wild wine, the taste is still unsatisfactory due to technical problems.

The Mang tribe has now harvested 10,000+ catties of rice, so Chenbei wondered if he could brew some rice wine.

Chen Bei grew up in the south in his previous life. There are many people in the south who like to brew some rice wine every year. This kind of home-brewed rice wine may not look good in appearance, but it tastes very good.

One of the key points is the production of koji, the quality of koji directly affects the quality of rice wine.

Chen Bei has seen it and learned how to make distiller's koji, but making distiller's koji requires aged wine medicine. This is the primitive era. Where can he find old wine medicine?

However, Chen Bei remembered that he had read a very old miscellaneous book, which recorded an interesting event, and his memory was very deep.

It is said that the most original distiller's koji is actually moldy or germinated grains. By coincidence, they are mixed with cooked grains and left for a long time to ferment into the most original wine.

But whether this method can work, he doesn't know, he can only try.

He divided some rice into two parts, soaked one part in warm water for a day, then fished it out with a basin, covered it with a moist sackcloth, and placed it next to a warm stove to urge it to germinate.

The other was also soaked in water, but it was placed in a dark corner to let it mold.

Three days later, the rice soaked in water germinated first, and because it was warm enough, the white grain buds grew quickly.

Chenbei heats the cooked rice until it is not hot to the hands, then mixes the germinated rice evenly, and finally puts it into a pottery wine vat, stuffs rice straws around the vat to keep warm, and uses the finest linen cloth for the mouth of the vat Cover it with sand and cover it with a layer of animal skin to keep warm.

After a few more days, the rice placed in the shade also became moldy successfully. There was a layer of gray mold on the millet, but the millet hadn't turned black yet, and the mildew was not particularly severe.

Chen Bei is going to use these moldy millet to make distiller's yeast.

"Spicy Polygonum grass is crushed, rice is crushed to death, moldy rice is added, and water is formed..."

While talking about the process, Chen Bei quickly made the koji.

Spicy Polygonum is a common common weed. It can be seen everywhere in Nanhuang, but it is particularly effective in making distiller's yeast. It can inhibit the growth of harmful pathogenic bacteria in distiller's yeast and ensure the growth of beneficial microorganisms in distiller's yeast.

After making wine cakes, Chenbei coated them with a layer of rice flour, put them in rattan baskets, and then placed them next to a warm stove to cultivate mycelium.

Half a day later, the wine cake grew vigorous mycelium and became fluffy. Chen Bei covered it with a moist sackcloth to let it continue to ferment.

Two days later, the mycelia matured. Chenbei rolled them and dried them outside to make the first koji of the Mang tribe.

When Bibo entered the yard, Chenbei had already dried the koji, and was putting them away one by one in animal skin bags, preparing to use them to brew rice wine.

"Leader, let me help."

As soon as Bibo entered, she saw Chenbei busy with work, and with the idea of ​​atonement, she wanted to go up and help.

"No need, I'll do it myself."

How could it be possible for Bibo to get started with the wine song that Chen Bei had made with great difficulty, he speeded up, the totem pattern on his arm lighted up slightly, his hand speed became faster, and even only afterimages could be seen.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Bei put all the dried koji into animal skin bags.

Bibo was a little regretful that she couldn't help Chenbei, she asked curiously: "Boss, what kind of treasure is this? Witch medicine?"

Chen Bei shook his head with a smile, and said, "It's not witchcraft, it's something used to make wine. You'll know it later."

"By the way, how did you get out this time?"

Chen Bei tied up the animal skin bag and hung it on the wall of the back room, while looking at Bibo.

Bibo's complexion darkened a bit, she took out an animal skin roll, handed it to Chen Bei, and said: "Boss, I have written all the experience of this voyage on this animal skin roll, please have a look at it."

Chen Bei washed his hands first, and quickly dried the water with the power of the totem, and then took the animal skin roll.

He unfolded it for a while, and then asked in surprise, "Are you going to sea?"

"Yes, because of this, three small boats were lost, the big boat was also damaged, and more than a dozen soldiers died in the sea. All this is because of my fault. I have come here to plead guilty to the leader."

Bibo lowered her head, feeling uneasy, she didn't know how Chenbei would think about this matter.

Chen Bei shook his head, and said: "Opening a new waterway is like opening a new route for a hunting team. Casualties are always inevitable. You don't have to blame yourself."

"If I punish you severely for opening up a new waterway, then no warrior from the Mang tribe will dare to explore new places in the future."

Chen Bei's words made Bibo secretly heave a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Chen Bei is not a conservative leader, otherwise, she would probably be severely punished.

Chen Bei said again: "However, you also committed a very serious problem, that is, you rashly sailed into the sea without asking Yutribe about the sea."

"It's a place we're completely unfamiliar with, but the Fish Tribe has lived by the sea for a long time and has a certain understanding of the sea. If you are more patient, you can learn more about the situation in the sea from the Fish Tribe during the transaction, maybe You can reduce some losses."

Before Bibo had time to rejoice, Chen Bei lowered his head again, feeling ashamed and feeling guilty at the same time.

Because of her overconfidence and because she didn't want to bow to Honglin, Bibo didn't know much about the sea from Yutribe, but went to sea rashly.

Chen Bei said: "Go back and reflect on yourself, this kind of problem is not allowed to happen again in the future."

"Yes!"

Bibo lowered her head in shame, ready to turn around and leave.

At this moment, Chen Bei said: "Wait..."

Bibo turned her head and looked at Chen Bei blankly.

"What you described in the animal skin scroll about the defects of river boats entering the sea is a good summary. After you go back, think about how to change the structure of the boat to make it easier to sail in the sea."

Chen Bei drew another picture and asked Bibo to take it back. In the picture, what he drew was a sea boat he had seen in his previous life, with a pointed bottom and pointed ends, for Bibo's reference.

Bibo looked at the picture drawn by Chen Bei, and her eyes lit up after having experienced sailing in the sea. She felt that the boat Chen Bei drew was the boat needed for sailing in the sea.

Of course, she had to rely on herself to modify the details.

Chen Bei seemed to be an omnipotent god, this incident, and this picture, made Bibo's sense of admiration for Chen Bei straight up.

After Bibo left, Chenbei began to try to brew rice wine. He first cooked the rice with a big cauldron, put it in the pot and spread it out to let the rice cool down, then crushed the wine koji, mixed it evenly with the rice, and finally sprinkled some water to serve it Put it into the wine jar and keep it warm for fermentation.

"Whether it can be done or not depends on luck."

Chen Bei looked at the wine brewed by the two methods, he was not sure which one would be successful, so he could only wait patiently.

(End of this chapter)