Datang: You Can't Imagine the Happiness of the Prince

Precipitation to the end, that is... the upper layer is clear soup, the lower layer is rice paste, and the clear soup is poured out to get rice and rice paste.

At this time, Xiao Laizi smashed the head-sized wine koji and sprinkled it into the rice paste to stir naturally.

This rice paste has cooled down just now, and it is warm to the touch, which is the most suitable temperature for koji fermentation.

On the other side, the stone mill began to grind barley, which was relatively rough, and the grains produced by the grinding were relatively large.

However, this does not affect the milled barley directly into a large pot with water to boil.

Keep adding firewood, keep adding water and water, and keep adding water when it is dry, and keep boiling like this.

It went on for an hour and a half.

At this time, Xiao Laizi asked a few strong men to lift the... cauldron, and then two more people supported the filter in their hands.

As soon as the pot was poured, the yellow liquid inside began to pour out.

Those... barley dregs and some large particles were all filtered through the sieve, leaving only the fine barley juice.

Then Li Tai looked at the yellow barley juice in front of him with a bit of bitterness: "Brother, what are you doing? This barley is not a good grain, it makes my throat go up when I eat it, and no one grows barley anymore. "

Wan Kuan glared: "I told you not to talk, why do you talk again, do you want to be kicked out by me?"

Then Li Tai was so frightened that he hurriedly covered his mouth, and Chang Le, who was beside him, covered his mouth and snickered, and whispered, "If you want to talk more, you can just take a good look. Brother Huang can always turn corruption into magic."

Then Li Tai was also a little aggrieved. Although he had never drank alcohol, it did not mean that he did not know how to make wine.

Although Li Tai does not understand the world, he has read a lot of books, so he knows a lot.

"Sister Changle, this wine is made with rice and sorghum, but not with barley.

It's ...... it's made from wheat, but it doesn't make any good wine."

Chang Le on the side raised his eyebrows, "Fourth brother, this is not right for you, when did eldest brother do something unsure about now that you dislike barley juice, don't wait until you kneel on the ground and beg for a drink in the future. ."

Li Tai curled his lips after hearing this, he was young, and at most he had drunk grape wine once.

Although the grape wine tasted good, it did not make Li Tai fascinated.

He didn't believe that he could be tempted by a bowl of wine and couldn't extricate himself.

At this time, Wan Kuan asked people to bring the big iron barrel that had been prepared for a long time. In fact, the big iron barrel was... Wankuan's brewing guy, made of iron barrel stills.

In fact, this distiller is very simple, that is... two large iron barrels are connected by steel pipes, and one of the iron barrels is filled with low-alcohol wine, and then heated continuously below.

This alcohol has a lower boiling point than water, so you can control the temperature to just let the alcohol evaporate.

When the evaporated alcohol gas passes through the iron pipe, use ice water to drench it on the iron pipe. The iron pipe is cold and the alcohol gas is hot, and the alcohol gas will liquefy when it is cold.

The liquefied alcohol drips down the iron pipe to another large iron barrel.

Generally speaking, the boiling point of this alcohol is not much different from the boiling point of water. Even if you control the heat more accurately, some water vapor will be mixed into the alcohol.

Therefore, it is difficult to distill to a very high degree at one time. Generally speaking, it is about ten degrees: the wine can reach more than forty degrees after two distillations, and if you are lucky, it will be around fifty degrees:.

It is impossible to brew high-grade liquor by pure brewing method, and high-grade liquor is distilled.

But now Wankuan is not using iron barrels... to distill, these... The sealing effect of the iron barrels is excellent, and the outside is sealed with beef tendon.

Wankuan is now fermenting, and fermentation also needs a sealed environment.

The reason why this beer is delicious, in addition to its taste, is because of the... carbon dioxide bubbles in it.

With those... bubbles, drink a sip of beer in summer, the bubbles of the beer will take away the heat in your body, it is really happy like a fairy.

At this time, the barley juice over there has also cooled down.

Wan Kuan directly asked people to pour the rice paste: into the barley juice, and then kept stirring.

The whole five barrels of barley juice use one barrel of rice paste, and the rice paste is very little, in fact, it mainly plays a role in fermentation.

And let the barley juice cool, not too hot, if it is too hot, the microorganisms in your koji will be burned to death, and there will be no way to ferment.

After the proportions were prepared, Wan Kuan added some brown sugar to it.

There must be sugar, because this barley contains too little sugar.

If the raw materials for microbial decomposition are not enough, the entire beer will have very few bubbles in the end.

In fact, the principle of brewing beer is also very simple, that is, the microorganisms in the koji decompose the sugars and turn the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide.

And in a sealed environment, the... carbon dioxide is collected in the iron barrel, and then dissolved into the liquid of the beer.

The addition of rice paste and brown sugar are all to allow microorganisms to ferment better.

The flavor of beer comes from barley and hops, but without the aid of rice and brown sugar, fermentation cannot be carried out perfectly.

Watching Wan Kuan pour the precious brown sugar into the water, Li Tai and Princess Changle scratched their heads, a little puzzled, this is not the same as the general method of brewing.

Li Tai couldn't help it until the end. He was like this. Although he was a strange person, he was willing to ask for advice when he encountered something he didn't understand.

"Brother, what are you adding brown sugar for? Are you afraid that the wine will be too bitter, so add some sugar to make it sweeter?"

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Wan Kuan could only respond with a blank eye to Li Tai's ignorance.

"You know the shit, sugar is added to make it ferment better. This wine is all fermented. How can you ferment without sugar?"

"But big brother, why don't the other brewers add sugar?"

"Nonsense, the raw materials for other brewing are rice. Rice already contains starch sugars. The starch I use is so little in barley, can I add some sugar?"

After listening to Li Tai, his eyes were dizzy, and his eyes were spinning in circles. He really couldn't understand what starch was and what sugar was.

He fermented....Understood, but Wan Kuan's words were like a book from heaven, which made Li Tai feel a little dizzy.

On the side, Princess Changle smiled, she liked to see Li Tai in a daze.

Li Tai, this stinky boy, used to be proud of himself in the palace. Because of his good knowledge, he was often praised by Li Shimin, so Li Tai has always been arrogant.

Li Tai looked down on everyone except... seeing the original Li Chengqian.

Well now, this Wan Kuan is a prince, but Li Tai is obedient and obedient.

After everything was done, Wan Kuan only turned his attention to the hops on the side at this time.

The hops have been cut into very fine pieces and scalded with boiling water.

Then, when the hops are wet, some people wrap the hops with sackcloth and rub them on the washboard constantly, in order to rub out the juice in the hops.

In fact, in general brewing beer, fresh hops are broken and put in, but the hops bought by Wan Kuan are dry goods, so this method can only be used to squeeze out the juice inside.

The hop juice that was squeezed out was green and had a strange smell. When Princess Changle smelled it, she took five steps backwards, wanting to run away.

And Li Tai also waved his little fat hand and fanned his nose: "Brother, this is too stinky, what kind of smell is this? This wild grass can make good wine"

Wan Kuan curled his lips after listening to this: "Li Tai, you like to eat fermented bean curd so much, do you know that fermented bean curd is also fermented after the bean curd has smelt. This brew is... turning rotten into magic, turning stinky things into something magical. become fragrant."

After listening, Li Tai grinned, not knowing how to answer.

And Wan Kuan just... snorted coldly: "You guys also eat pickles from Hebei, do you know what pickles are used for? That's brine.

You have never tasted the taste of that brine.

If you dare to drink a glass of brine, I will respect you as a man."

Then Li Tai's face turned green after hearing that. He didn't think that his favorite fermented bean curd and pickles were all made of this stinky stuff.

For a time, Li Tai's throat was a little tight, and it was estimated that he was about to spit it out.

However, at this time of Wan Kuan, but these two little guys, now the juice of the hops has also been poured into it.

Wan Kuan hurriedly asked people to open the large iron buckets and poured all the juice into them. They had to stir while pouring, and they had to stir evenly.

Otherwise, the fermented things will not taste right.

Wan Kuan stood on the stool, the liquid inside gradually rose, and when it reached the waist of the vat, Wan Kuan directly waved his hand.

"Stop, you can't pour it in any more, pour it in again: this iron barrel is about to explode."

The little Laizi probed his brain, and then said: "Master, there are still a lot of empty spaces, why don't you pour in:"

"You don't understand now. There will be gas during fermentation. If you pour it too full, the gas will burst the iron sheet."

"It can burst the iron sheet"

After hearing that, Lai Zi didn't believe it, and then tapped the iron bucket with his finger: "Master, the iron of this bucket is thick."

Wan Kuan shook his head after hearing this, it's scary to be uneducated, this little rascal doesn't understand at all, that explosives actually rely on the rapid generation of gas in a short period of time to produce the effect of an explosion.

Sometimes, the seemingly ordinary things are the most dangerous.

Everything is ready, Wan Kuan quickly has someone seal it up.

The seal made of beef tendon is directly strung on it, and there can be no trace of discouragement.

At this time, Li Tai was eagerly looking at the big iron buckets in front of him.

Wan Kuan looked at Li Tai's demented eyes, his saliva was about to flow out, not only a little bit of pouting.

"I said boy, you were stinky just now, but now you're starting to drool, what the hell is going on with you?"

"Brother, what do you still say, brother, don't I trust you? Brother, when have you ever let us down?"

"You don't need to flatter yourself, you can't drink it in your mouth now, at least half a month later."

Then Li Tai was a little disappointed when he heard it, but it was the same when he thought about it, how could wine be made so fast and Wan Kuan at this time told Xiao Laizi: "Little Laizi, open these big iron buckets after five days, and then put the upper layer Skim out all the dregs, and pour the fermented puree wine in the middle: into a new vat, and continue to ferment."

"And there will be some sticky deposits under the vat. These are yeasts, and they are all put away. They will be used when making wine in the future."

That little Laizi listened very carefully, although Xiao Laizi couldn't recognize a few words now, but his brain was very clever, and when Wan Kuan said something, he could remember it immediately.

And the brewing of this beer is not done overnight, and it does have to be replaced after five days.

Because the original fermentation environment is no longer suitable for beer brewing, and there will be some foam on the top and some sediment below.

These...if the foam and sediment continue to stay in the barrel, it will affect the fermentation, so the middle liquor should be put into a new barrel.

The wine has enough microorganisms and nutrients in it, and then it is fermented for about ten days to get the most charming taste.

After the explanation, seeing that the sun was already in the west, they didn't even eat lunch, and Li Tai and Princess Changle on the side were already hungry.

Wan Kuan went straight back to the house, and the two followed like stalkers, because they knew that Wan Kuan would never wrong him, and that he would definitely cook a delicious meal for himself after returning to the East Palace.