Chapter 170 Time Wine
After returning to Xisou, Zhou Yi began his usual life again. There were several mentally ill patients with split personality in Xisou, and he was quite interested in this disease.
On the other hand, Zhou Yi is preparing the materials to brew the first jar of white wine in his life. According to the records in the books, its name is "The Dead is So".
As the name suggests, time is like this rushing river, passing by constantly, and time goes by like flowing water and never returns.
Drinking this kind of wine can make people feel the passage of time.
It is a supernatural wonder.
Of course, the ingredients required for this type of liquor are also unique. In addition to the special types of yeast, it also requires the hair of a centenarian as a "introduction".
The richer the life experience of this centenarian, the better, the more bumpy the better, but he must also keep a innocent heart.
A hundred years old, ups and downs, and innocent heart, these requirements are very rare, and there are not many people in the entire Great Xia Alliance.
And Mrs. Sun Lihan happens to be one of them.
A 103-year-old girl.
Zhou Yi got a small handful of her hair, and counted it, a total of twelve.
"You want to make wine... How can you make wine? Tsk tsk, I, Old Li, can do it!" After learning the news, Old Comrade Li Xianfeng hurried over.
However, there is no sarcasm than ever before, but it is mostly curious, and making wine is a belief.
"I got a secret recipe. I'm idle anyway, so I might as well try it. Maybe this secret recipe works." Zhou Yi said with a smile.
"What secret recipe?"
"The dead are like this, and they will never let go of day and night!" Zhou Yi shook his head and said, "This is the saint's feelings."
"It's so literary... let me help me!" Lao Li has drunk so long that he has brewed it himself, and has rich experience in his career.
Zhou Yi did not object, and agreed with a smile.
After all, the most important thing about "the dead" is wine chorus and wine chorus. The yeast in the wine chorus comes from the booklet given by stone slabs, and wine chorus gives the hair of a centenarian who meets the standards.
Others don’t have these two things at all, and it is even more impossible to steal the sect.
First of all, the production of wine koji, rice, spicy bean grass, lentil leaves, bamboo leaves, field grass, orange leaves, osmanthus leaves... Cut these ingredients into small balls the size of pebbles.
Each small ball meatball is coated with special yeast liquid, then placed in a place with appropriate temperature, and spread rice bran or dry straw. Place the small balls evenly on the rice bran or straw to allow them to ferment slowly.
After two days of fermentation, the koji was finished.
"Well... the season is just right now, and the temperature is very suitable."
Although it was the first time to make a chorus, Zhou Yi knew that the chorus had been completed and the taste was quite high.
"It smells so fragrant... the taste of rice wine." Li Xianfeng was a person who knew the goods and opened his eyes wide. "Your wine chorus is made in an ordinary way, and the ingredients are nothing special, but why is it so fragrant? I understand, your yeast powder is not ordinary, can you give me some evenness of this wine chorus?"
"No!" Zhou Yi said: "But I can invite you to drink the brewed wine. For your help, it will be fine to give you another pound or two."
Li Xianfeng grinned, if you don’t give it, don’t give it. After all, the production of wine chorus is a secret recipe for many brewers. It’s good to drink wine. “Is one or two pounds too little?”
"Not a lot, no more!"
There are just a few businesses in the town who sell family liquor. Li Xianfeng is considered an old customer and everyone knows each other.
Zhou Yi discussed with the middle-aged man for a while and spent 300 yuan to rent the complete set of production tools for several days.
Then he called Fu Lintao and Wu Zhenyu to be responsible for fighting.
The brewing materials are actually quite ordinary and can be bought in towns. Preferred to be plump and large sorghum, and the sorghum should be crushed with a mill, with 6 to 8 petals. This is done to facilitate steaming.
Add some rice husks to the sorghum, add appropriate amount of water and mix thoroughly, and leave it for about two hours to allow the material to absorb enough water.
Then put it in a steamer and steam it over high heat for more than an hour. The steamed ingredients should be cooked. Just twist it with your hands and don’t get rid of it.
Finally, mix the steamed sorghum with the koji in proportion, add a certain degree of water, mix it and put it in the wine cellar for fermentation. The indoor temperature of the fermentation should be around 20 degrees.
The fermentation time is about 10 days.
At this time, the fragrance was almost gone, but "the dead are like this" has already shown its extraordinary power.
Comrade Fu Lintao, who was specifically responsible for stirring the fermentation broth, suddenly collapsed and cried and wanted to worship in front of his grandmother's grave.
"My grandma, why did you go..." Fu Lintao cried bitterly, claiming that he remembered his grandma.
Li Xianfeng was confused. This guy's grandmother has been dead for more than ten years, right?
What's going crazy all of a sudden?
Wu Zhenyu was also scratching his scalp, thinking of his dead grandfather, and tears flowed down his eyes.
Only Zhou Yi vaguely guessed what happened. He sighed. It seemed that if he had his own home in the future, he would have to buy a complete set of brewing tools and do all the work by himself. Renting other people's utensils may cause problems.
After the fermentation was completed, one step after 10 days was distillation. Because Fu Lintao showed signs of mental collapse, Zhou Yi did not dare to let ordinary people participate and could only play on his own. Fortunately, there was a skilled worker, Li Xianfeng, who was not unable to do it.
But after all the wine was distilled, both of them were affected to a certain extent
Li Xianfeng's expression changed, and he sighed: "Your wine is definitely a good wine, which can seduce people's emotions, and a top-notch good wine. But under normal circumstances, you don't dare to drink it."
"Is it enough for you to give two pounds?"
"Enough is enough, absolutely enough."
The last step is to store the wine. The brewed white wine must be stored in the cellar before the taste can be mellow. The new wine tastes really a little.
"The dead are like this", and there are 4 levels in total, January, year, ten years, and a hundred years. The strength of each level is different.
So Zhou Yi encapsulated them into many jars, and there was no place to store wine in the West Inn, so he simply rented a truck and transported them to the master's house and placed them in the cellar to hide. In the foreseeable future, the master should have lived in seclusion in the town.
Ye Tiansheng is also a person who likes wine. He especially heard from Li Xianfeng that this is good wine and there will be no objection.
"A hundred years old wine... I don't know if I can drink it." Zhou Yi sighed. A hundred years later, he was 121 years old, and he might have become a piece of loess and may still be alive, but most people must be gone.
This is exactly what "the dead are like this".
Chapter completed!