52. Good wine
After a few days, the sorghum wine was fermented.
Shen Qian had to teach the children in the village to read in the morning, so he set the time for steaming wine in the afternoon.
After a hurried meal at noon, the three of them started working in the kitchen. Mainly Lu Jiu and Song Lan worked while Shen Qian watched the status of various things.
Song Lan had already cleaned the two pots, steamer, and wine pipe that would be used in the morning. Lu Jiu had also prepared the firewood to be burned and the water that needed to be replaced in the sky pot.
The fermented sorghum is poured into the first pot, and a steamer is placed on top. The gap between the steamer and the iron pot is filled with rice bran. A wine pipe is placed in the middle of the steamer. The wine pipe is five or six inches wide. The wooden boards, which are high on both sides and low in the middle, can well catch the wine dripping from the sky pot, and then gather them together, and then flow out of the steamer along the small tube at the top.
When the time comes, just grab a jar and catch the wine outside.
Another sky pot is placed on top of the steamer, and the sky pot is filled with cold water. When the temperature of the water in the pot comes up, it needs to be replaced, so that the distilled wine in the steamer can condense when it is cold.
Although these few things are simple, they make up a very practical distillation tool.
Steaming wine can only be done over low heat. It took almost three-quarters of an hour to boil the fermented sorghum in the pot. By the time the wine dripped out of the wine tube, it was already almost half an hour.
Shen Qian took a glass in a small porcelain cup. The wine was crystal clear and fragrant.
Song Lan and Lu Jiu both showed surprised expressions.
"This is the first time I've seen wine with such a clear color," Song Lan said.
Lu Jiu continued: "It's almost like water." He looked at Shen Qian expectantly, "Can I have a taste?"
"Not now, you can't drink the wine." Shen Qian said.
He remembered this very clearly. At that time, his friend specifically emphasized in the video that the methanol content in the wine head was too high and could not be drunk, but after being stored for a while, it could be used for cooking.
He looked at the head of a small glass of wine in his hand. When they brewed more wine in the future, if they saved one cup at a time, they would be able to save a lot over time.
The jar that received the wine dinged for half an hour before Shen Qian lifted up the old clothes and oil paper covering it. The fragrant aroma of wine instantly overflowed and filled the entire kitchen.
Lu Jiu, who was lighting a fire in front of the stove, and Song Lan, who was doing needlework next to him, both came over.
The two of them were previously curious as to why Shen Qian put the wine pipe into the jar, and then tightly covered the mouth of the jar with oil paper and old clothes. Now they understood that it was not only to prevent the wine that had just flowed out of the steamer from following him. The heat has dissipated, but the aroma of the wine is not allowed to float out. Although their yard is not small, the wine is so fragrant. If the jar is kept open, people passing by outside will definitely be able to smell the aroma.
Shen Qian took a small sip and tasted it. After confirming that the taste was okay, he said to the two people standing next to him, "Mom and Ajiu will try it too."
YOU ARE READING
Marry a hunter to be husband
Romance*This is not my story For offline read Mtl After Shen Qian died, he traveled to a different world. The original owner Han Chuang studied hard for more than ten years. When he was about to take the county examination, he was implicated by his uncle's...
