After leaving the winery, Chen Xu did not return to the Hou Mansion, but drove out of the city and went straight to the experimental factory of the Academy of Sciences. He first found Gongshusheng and Iron Poker, drew a steamer for distilled white wine, steam lid and other items, and asked the two to build it as soon as possible. Then he found a carpenter stick and asked him to quickly build a huge wooden steam barrel. After the arrangement was completed, Chen Xu went to the glass factory and took out some pictures of beakers, test tubes, flasks, droppers, glass rods, alcohol lamps and other pictures that he had drawn last night, so that Tangcheng would make some of them for chemical experiments at that time. As for scales and other things, they could not take care of them at the moment, so they could only improve them slowly.

Five days passed in a flash, and Ma Gan and others finished making all the steamed wine vessels. Chen Xu arranged for someone to send them to Du's wine shop. After waiting for a few more days, Du Zhong came to report that the steamed wine shop and the fire stove had been built. Chen Xu then brought Yu Wuya to the wine shop again.

"Marty, everything is ready, you see what to do!"

Eucommia udon had been welcoming at the winery for a long time and took Chen Xu to inspect the newly built steamed wine room. The room was not big, only about thirty square meters, and there was a newly built fire stove in the center. The chimney made of ceramic pipe stretched out outside the roof. The cast iron pot had been placed on the fire stove and sealed the surroundings with yellow mud.

Chen Xu checked the steamer steamer and the steaming lid that produced the wine. After feeling that they were almost ready, he asked someone to clean the large iron pot and then fill it with water. Then he asked someone to find a thick linen cloth to surround the edge of the pot, and finally put the steamer on it.

The steaming barrel is similar to the wooden barrels that steamed rice in later generations. Pour the fermented wine lees in it and cover it with an iron steaming cover. In order to prevent the steamed wine from leaking, a layer of wet linen should be placed between the wooden barrel and the steaming cover as a sealing gasket.

The steam cover is surrounded by an internal U-shaped structure and will be tilted in one direction. This way, after the steam condenses on the steam cover, it will fall into the U-trough and then flow out through the outlet of a conduit.

Although Chen Xu had never seen steamed wine, at least the principle of steam condensation is still very clear, so we can only design this simplest structure at present. However, according to Chen Xu's view, this structure still has huge room for improvement.

Everything was ready, Chen Xu ordered the fire to light.

Under the command of Eucommia ulmoide, several assistants in the winery lit the stove. Twenty minutes later, the water in the big pot began to roll. At the same time, the steam bucket also began to heat up and steam came out, and a strong smell of wine was emitted from the steam.

Chen Xu didn't know how much fire it should be used to steam wine, so he didn't care. Several helpers kept adding firewood to the stove as usual. Yu Wuya, Du Zhong and several winery craftsmen surrounded him and watched the news, while Chen Xu stared at the iron pipes at the outlet of the wine.

Shortly after the steam came out, a crystal clear wine flowed out of the iron pipe.

As the dripping wine began to slowly condense into a transparent thin line and fell into a clay pot below, a more intense and intoxicating smell emanated, strongly stimulating everyone's nasal cavity and taste buds.

"Wow, what a strong smell of wine!" Yu Wuya squatted next to the clay pot, sniffing hard, his face filled with endless surprises.

With the drizzle, about half a pound of pound soon appeared in the clay pot. Chen Xu asked a craftsman to take a bamboo pickup, scooped it up and smelled it. He felt that it was almost no different from the white wine steamed by the farmers in later generations. He sniffed it slightly and felt that the whole mouth was as if it was scalded by boiling water. Chen Xu vomited it out directly.

Generally speaking, the wine cannot be consumed directly because it may contain methanol. Therefore, Chen Xu used a bamboo tube to connect some at the outlet of the wine for a few minutes. After receiving half a can of the wine, Chen Xu ordered a change to a wine jar, because the wine flowing out at this time tasted much more mellow and no longer had a spicy mouth like a burning knife.

"Come on, Brother Yu, please try it and see how the wine tastes?" Chen Xu squinted his eyes and squirted a few times. After tasting it seven or eight times, he felt a little dizzy.

Yu Wuya was not polite either. He took the bamboo tube and poured it into one go.

"Ao~~cough cough~~"

After drinking a sip of wine, Yu Wuya felt that he had swallowed a piece of charcoal and burned it directly from his mouth to his stomach and intestines. He immediately lost the bamboo tube and covered his throat and jumped his feet and coughed desperately. Moreover, his skin turned red quickly. I don’t know if it was because of the wine or the choking.

"Haha, Brother Yu, how does Erguotou taste?" Chen Xu laughed happily, still remembering that he was deceived into drinking white wine for the first time, which was almost exactly the same as Yu Wuya's current situation.

Although it is no longer the strongest wine, according to Chen Xu's judgment, there are at least fifty degrees.

Not to mention the Qin Dynasty people who are drunk with only a few degrees of turbid wine and wine, even the most capable alcoholic drinkers in later generations can't withstand a few sips.

"My benefactor, this wine is poisonous~~" Yu Wuya covered his neck and looked at the white wine that was still flowing down in horror.

"Don't worry, it's not toxic, it's just that the alcohol content is relatively high. This wine is relatively strong. If you drink several bottles of wine, you can't stand it. You have to taste it in small sips..."

Chen Xu picked up another bamboo tube and picked up half of the tube at the wine outlet, carefully sipped it again, then smiled and said to Du Zhong and several craftsmen in the wine shop: "Don't be polite, come and taste it, don't sip it big. This wine is rich and mellow, and it is the ultimate taste in the world!"

There was Yu Wuya's lesson before. Although Eucommia and several craftsmen felt a little inexplicably trembling, they could not help but smelled such a strong aroma of wine. Everyone used a bamboo tube to taste it.

"What a strong wine~"

As soon as the wine was in his mouth, Du Zhong shook his face, but his face suddenly showed endless surprise and surprise. After closing his eyes for a while, he couldn't help but exclaim.

Several craftsmen quickly tasted it, each with different expressions, but their common expressions were surprise and excitement.

"Good wine, so strong, my soul will fly away in one sip!"

"I'm drunk, I'm going to be drunk!"

"It goes straight into the stomach like charcoal, extremely strong in nature but it is so fragrant!"

Several craftsmen were staring at the still flowing wine mouth. After drinking this sip of wine, almost all people's faces began to turn red, most of the reason was because of excitement.

As a craftsman in the winery, he naturally has much stronger resistance to alcohol than ordinary people. After a moment of reminiscing, several people couldn't wait to taste it again, and then closed their eyes and smacked their lips to feel the impact of this strong wine on their souls.

"Master Du Fang, how does this wine feel?" Chen Xu looked at Du Zhong.

"Mr. Marquis is indeed a master of food and winemaking master. Just steaming ordinary wine lees like this, you can get such crystal clear pure wine, and such a strong and mellow fragrance. It really convinces Eucommia udon that admires me!"

"The Marquis innovated this method of steaming wine, and no one would drink the turbid wine in the future!"

Eucommia ulmoides and several craftsmen were excitedly flattering each other.

"I heard that good wine needs to be steamed and three brewed. This pot is steamed with head wine. It tastes spicy and hot. It is not suitable for drinking directly. It is best to leave it to cool down and seal the jar and store it. After mixing with the wine after the next three brews, it will be more rich and mellow. Prepare some granules and bran. After the wine is steamed, the wine lees and bran will be spread out and cooled, then add the wine kelp to accumulate and ferment. After the granules are well, the wine tastes will be much more peaceful. Repeat this three times. When the brewing substances in the granules are exhausted, you can dry them and mix them with the fodder and feed them to the livestock so that the food will be used up and will not be wasted!"

"What the Marquis said is that every time we brew wine, we add remaining crumbs to the new ingredients, so that the wine will be released quickly, so I will arrange it now!" Du Zhong turned around and arranged for people to prepare the bran and koji, while several craftsmen began to learn every step of the operation under the guidance of Chen Xu.

In fact, the operation of steaming wine is very simple, and mixing wine lees and fermenting are also the most familiar steps for the winery, so Chen Xu understood all these craftsmanship after a few words.

"The most important thing is the heat. You can experiment more. The wine steamed this time seems to have a burnt smell. You can make the heat slightly smaller next time!"

"We have already kept in mind the orders of the Marquis!" Several craftsmen and helpers saluted together.

As the strong smell of wine in the steaming room emanated, the entire winery was filled with a smell of wine that was countless times stronger than usual. Not only did the helpers and apprentices and craftsmen in the winery surrounded the door of the room to watch, but even the coachman and wine merchants who came back and forth to pick up the winery were standing outside on tiptoe, constantly asking whether the winery today had great wines and why there was such a fascinating rich aroma.

"Hehe, what do you know? Today is Qinghehou made a fairy wine in our winery. I heard that ordinary people dare not drink it. I got drunk after smelling it!" Listening to the inquiries and discussions between the coachman and the wine merchant, some of the helpers and apprentices in the winery began to show off excitedly.

"It turns out that the Marquis is brewing wine. No wonder, can you go in and enjoy it? I want to go in and pay homage to the Marquis!" A wine merchant squeezed into the apprentice who had just spoken and said excitedly.

Soon, the sound from outside reached the room. Chen Xu asked Du Zhong to invite several wine merchants who had contact with the winery and let them taste the steamed white wine. Suddenly, there was another noise in the room. Several wine merchants were blushed by the high-level white wine, and their faces were red and thick necks were thick, and they were also completely conquered by the sweet and rich taste of the wine.

Not everyone loves to drink strong alcohol. For the Qin Dynasty people who are not resistant to alcohol, the steamed wine and poison are really no different. However, as a businessman who specializes in selling wine, he can still taste the unique characteristics of this poison-like white wine, that is, it is pure, without the sourness and bitterness of the usual turbid wine, and of course there is no sweetness of ordinary rice wine. But it is this pure smell that makes them crazy. Not only does their soul float, but their whole body begins to shake. This is why everyone loves to drink. Drunkards enjoy this dizzy process.

Therefore, once this kind of wine appears, it will inevitably attract the pursuit of people who are good at wine. They usually need to drink a few pots to satisfy their cravings. Now they only need to achieve the effect in one gulp, especially after drinking it in one gulp. If you drink it in the cold winter, it will be a magical thing to promote blood circulation and keep warm.

"Mr. Marquis, can this... be sold?" a wine merchant asked dizzyly.

"It is natural to sell, but it cannot be sold in large quantities, because the production is limited and brewing requires a large amount of grain, so the Shaofu will not allow large quantities of production. Just know about this matter, don't publicize it widely. After a few years of abundant grain production, this hou will naturally report to the emperor to allow the people to brew and sell it!" Chen Xu shook his head and explained.

"Oh!" Several wine merchants couldn't help but feel regretful.

"Since you meet today, I am not stingy. One hundred dollars per pound, each person is limited to three pounds to buy and take them home to taste!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"Thank you, Marquis!"
Chapter completed!