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Chapter 263 Expensive Materials

Liquor has an irreplaceable position in the hearts of Chinese people.

Just like beer in Germany and Coke in the United States, there are many enthusiasts in the country who are tirelessly pursuing it, pursuing its taste and value.

Chinese people love wine, which can be seen everywhere, especially at parties.

As the saying goes, there is no party without wine. At this time, wine has been given as a medium, a thing that allows everyone to communicate and trust each other.

Wine speaks to the heart, and everyone's emotions and thoughts can be conveyed through wine, so this is why so many people in China like liquor and its sales are so large.

So the question is, with such a huge demand, and there are only so many wineries in the country, and the production cycle of wine is so long, how to meet people's growing demand?

Some small wineries carry out large-scale production through blending and make profits by making fake wine.

The raw material they use is alcohol, and some black workshops even use industrial alcohol. Can you imagine how harmful it will be to the human body?
Chu Yunfeng once watched a video of a reporter making an unannounced visit to a winery. The bartender in the video confidently told the reporter that he had been doing this for almost 20 years.

As long as it's the taste you want or any famous wine, you can create the taste yourself.

The reporter expressed disbelief, and then the bartender started making it on the spot...!
After adding edible alcohol, water and a little raw wine into a plastic jug, some liquid was sucked in with a needle and dripped in. The reporter asked what it was?
The bartender replied cryptically that it was glacial acetic acid.

Because after adding water, the taste of wine will become lighter. In order to satisfy the taste of consumers, acids and lipids need to be added to it so that consumers cannot detect it.

The bartender later told reporters that there are generally about twenty or thirty kinds of additives needed to prepare this kind of wine.

Twenty or thirty kinds?

Under the reporter's shocked expression, the bartender opened the cabinet, which contained many small bottles densely packed inside.

It is marked with various lipids, acids, alcohols and aldehydes, as well as some flavors, and they are all chemical materials.

Seeing that the reporter was "shocked" by him, the bartender proudly continued to explain to the reporter: "Look at these ethyl acetate, ethyl lactate and ethyl hexanoate?
This lipid substance can be blended to create different wine aromas. I can blend it for you with the flavor of Moutai you want.

And this, did you see the glycerol? This is a thickener. If you feel that the taste of this wine is not soft and does not hang on the glass, then you can add a little more. I guarantee that you will feel that this wine tastes very mellow and is definitely aged. old wine! "

When questioned by the reporter, the bartender also said that he was making samples here. You see some small bottles, and those that are mass-produced are made in large barrels weighing hundreds of kilograms.

Every time it comes out, the output is several tons or dozens of tons.

And such a production cycle is very short, often only taking one or two days to complete.

The liquor produced by regular wineries has a very long brewing cycle, especially the brewing of Maotai-flavored wine, and some of the cycles can reach one year or more.

So we can see the gap. In this way, the profit of fake wine is self-evident. It is said that the salaries of these bartenders who make fake wine are very high.

There is no doubt that fake wine is made with some chemicals, and its cost is very low, so its profit is very high.

Correspondingly, the salary for bartenders is also very high.

It is said that some people can earn several million a year, which is almost the same as the income of bartenders in large wineries.

But for example, bartenders in some large wineries, because they create some recipes themselves and let the wineries create some brands of wine, the salary of this part of the bartenders is extremely high, some even tens of millions a year. .

However, these are all from large wineries, and bartenders in this category have signed long-term contracts with the wineries, so they cannot be poached even if they want to.

Chu Yunfeng looked at the bartending materials provided by the system. Although they contained a lot of chemical ingredients, all the materials were very safe and would not cause any harm to the human body.

Because almost all ingredients are extracted from plants or animals, their prices are definitely much higher than those of inferior chemicals.

From the moment he received the task, Chu Yunfeng had some doubts that the system would make him a bartender, right?
These dozens of materials, large and small, plus every step of bartending, and what needs to be paid attention to at every step, are all very detailed.

If you follow these steps, you will be a very qualified bartender.

Chu Yunfeng searched where such things could be purchased, and finally came to Shuangqiaozi Interchange. There were many shops of various sizes nearby, all selling chemicals.

I asked several stores in succession that they did not have any plant-extracted materials. They all said that such things are too expensive, and most of them are imported from abroad and cannot be sold at all, so few people buy them.

Later, he found out that there should be a house for sale around the corner, so Chu Yunfeng hurried to check it out.

Sure enough, when I came to this store, I noticed a difference. The stores I had been to before were always crowded with people, but this store was completely deserted. There was no one in the store.

"Boss, are there any plant-extracted raw materials for sale?" Chu Yunfeng entered the store and saw a middle-aged man with black glasses reading a book. The black glasses are thicker and give people a very retro feeling. .

There is also a purple sand tea set on the table, which looks very leisurely and enjoyable.

Hearing Chu Yunfeng's words, the uncle looked up reluctantly as if he had just woken up from sleep, and saw a young man with a somewhat surprised expression.

But he still replied: "There are things, but they are not cheap. What kind do you want?"

It seems that the business in the store is really not very good. The customers are not enthusiastic. Who will buy your things?

"I want these things. There are more than forty kinds in total. Do you have them here?" Chu Yunfeng handed over the list of materials and quantities he had written.

Hmm~? !
The moment he saw the list, the middle-aged uncle seemed to "woke up" instantly. He looked at the materials on the list with a shocked face, and then glanced at Chu Yunfeng again, his expression was a little stunned, as if he had seen something strange. Things are the same.

"What do you buy these things for?" The middle-aged uncle asked with a frown, and did not directly answer Chu Yunfeng's question, which made Chu Yunfeng feel a little strange.

I just came to buy something. If you have it, you will get it. If you don’t have it, you won’t have it. You asked me what it is for?

Considering the special nature of the bartender, Chu Yunfeng would not reveal his secret, so he smiled and said calmly: "I bought it for a friend. I said I went back to do experiments."

The middle-aged uncle frowned even more after hearing this, and said after more than ten seconds: "The materials on this are available here, but the price is not cheap, are you sure you want it?"

Everything? !That was simply great. Chu Yunfeng lamented how lucky he was to be able to gather all the materials in one go.

But what the uncle said next frightened Chu Yunfeng...!
"Based on the quantity on your order, the price is around 10. Are you sure you want to buy it?"

10?
Let me go. Is it so expensive? !
(End of this chapter)