Shenhao UP Lord

Chapter 221 Daiginjo

Departure the next day and come to Marumoto Brewery, known as the local sake factory with the highest craftsmanship.

Hearing that a documentary was going to be made, the boss in his early [-]s was very excited. He held Ding Xu's hand and murmured for a while. According to Xiaoya's words: Someone finally understands the power of Qingshui Daiginjo.

"How many brothers like to drink sake?"

"Brother Xu came to the legendary winery today to find out how the island nation's sake is made."

"Please put excellence on the public screen!"

The two cameras followed the boss to the factory building, and he was surprised to find that there were not many machines, but many were traditional crafts instead?
"Sake is very pure. It is made of pure rice, water, and koji. Later, it was also added with sake mother to speed up the fermentation process. The method is similar to beer, without distillation."

"Good rice and good water are actually not difficult for an island country that has attached great importance to farming since ancient times. What is difficult is to blindly smell the immortality, that is, wine yeast."

Listening to Xiaoya's translation, Ding Xu concluded: "After all, people in island countries learned to use koji for fermentation around the eighth century AD. As for what was used before?"

"Use the saliva of a virgin, do you believe it?"

"Brother Xu is not lying. At that time, the girls who were eligible to be selected were not normal people. Usually, they needed to be witches with divine power."

"Why are you asking?"

"Because they have the unique ability to talk to God: God, please, I want to drink good wine."

After speaking, he came to rows of huge wooden boxes, the boss opened the lid, and the inside was full of white rice.

"There is a kind of chewing wine in the island country. Does it feel disgusting to hear the name?"

"That's right, spit the cooked rice into the container after biting it, and repeat until all the rice is fully blended with saliva, and the container is almost full."

Ding Xu couldn't help but feel like vomiting, and quickly changed the subject: "The principle is to use enzymes in saliva to break down starch into sugar. It originated from mothers chewing rice with their mouths to feed their babies."

"Li is generally a kind of sweet wine. There is a saying in ancient times: the friendship between villains is like sweet wine."

"That wine is an evil white, the alcohol content is said to be only 5%, and it is said to be very sweet!"

"Don't get me wrong!"

"Brother Xu never drank!"

I heard from the boss that this winemaking method was very popular all over the world in ancient times. Southeast Asia may use a lot of young women’s mouth juice, and China usually uses millet to chew?

South Americans chew and spit corn to make chicha and cassava to make masato.Spain also uses this method to make tequila?
WTF!

The boss opened another wooden barrel full of white paste. Is this the primary state of Li?
Is the little bubbles in the barrel carbon dioxide?
Does it mean that distiller's yeast is eating?
"Brothers, this is Li." Ding Xu held a small cup of fresh milky white liquid, smelled it first, and then showed it to the camera: "Brother Xu has put it together for you to taste!"

Taking a small sip carefully, he frowned instantly, what a strong drink!
"Do you know why it's called sake?"

"Due to different brewing processes, the wine in our country becomes more valuable as it is stored, while the shelf life of sake is usually only one year."

"Anything more than five years old is a boutique."

"Then drinking sake is best served in a cup with a big belly, like this."

Just kidding, we still need to popularize some dry goods. The boss led them to the lounge and began to display various products.

"Compared to good white wine, the aroma of sake is generally not as rich and long-lasting. To fully appreciate its aroma, you must use a glass with a wide body and a retracted rim."

"And it's very perishable. It's best to keep it in a fresh-keeping refrigerator at 0 degrees Celsius at any time. Most of it is suitable for drinking at 8-15 degrees Celsius. The boss's unique secret is to heat it to 42 degrees Celsius for the best taste!"

"You ask how to choose?"

"Brother Xu told you that the easiest way is"

"Look at the packaging, there are only two words of pure rice!"

Picking up a bottle of wine, he showed it: "Islanders are more honest. If there is no label, it may contain additional alcohol, sugar and sour ingredients, understand?"

"As for the specific craftsmanship, Brother Xu is lazy, and if you are interested, you can use Baidu."

“It’s easy to judge whether sake is high-grade or not. The accuracy of rice polishing is the most important indicator.”

"It is the original size of a grain of rice for sake brewing after the rough part is ground off. All sake is basically cut from brown rice. The rice with a polished rice degree of less than 50% can be called the best level of sake."

"It's the so-called Junmai Daiginjo."

"The reason why it tastes so good is that rice, water and yeast can brew fruity aroma!"

Looking at all kinds of polished rice, as expected of a little devil, one grain of rice can be tossed into so many tricks?

The smaller the value of the polished rice step, the double the brewing time, and the craftsman has to pay more effort and energy.

If you want to study it more pretentiously, sake has five flavors: sweet, sour, pungent, bitter, and astringent.Because the perception of various flavors by human taste buds is affected by the entrance temperature?
For example, when it is cold, the taste buds will become very insensitive to sweetness.As the temperature rises, the sweetness will become more and more obvious, and when the temperature is close to the body temperature of 37 degrees, the tongue will feel a peak.Then increase it again, and the sweetness will not change much.

The opposite is true for bitterness. When the temperature reaches above 37 degrees, the bitterness is almost impossible to taste.The astringency is similar, and the higher the temperature, the less obvious it is.

Therefore, if there is no recommendation from the locals, it is difficult for tourists to find good wine. The place where the wine is made can even drink the unique local raw wine. Because it has not been sterilized, it can only be stored for two months. It is a bit of domestic puree, but the alcohol content is much lower.

When 007 pretended to be aggressive, the waiter in the island country handed Bond a glass of sake instead of the dry vodka martini he always liked.

When everyone was waiting to see the joke, he took the glass gracefully and said that he likes this kind of wine, and the temperature of the wine is just right...

37 degrees Celsius!
"The Fourteenth Daiginjo!"

Ding Xu held a bottle of sake and showed it: "Sake production in the Edo period was very rare and precious, and only the royal nobles could drink it. At that time, everyone poured wine to each other, deliberately shaking their hands, and spreading it everywhere just to show off their wealth! "

"This wine is the owner's private collection, called Xue の Cottage"

"Using the ancient brewing process of Shanfei, the taste is more layered, the fruity aroma is very strong, and there are many and complex sour and bitter tastes under careful taste, and the aftertaste is endless."

"Close your eyes and imagine, on a snowy night full of moonlight, in front of an ancient hut, soaking in hot springs and drinking snow huts, that feeling..."

"Please put the force on the public screen!"

To be honest, after visiting the island country for such a long time, what impressed me most was not Michelin, but simple rice.

In particular, the Yueguang brand rice is so strict that it is divided into four grades according to the size of the rice grain, degree of damage, color, shape, etc.?
Even heard that there is a god of rice?
Insist on making rice for a lifetime, get up at [-]:[-] every morning when you are nearly [-] years old, and work continuously for [-] hours a day?

Every meal time, there will be crowds of people, many people line up just to have a bite of the rice he cooked?
Be nice!

(End of this chapter)