Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

After Zhang He returned to Heishui Town, he approached Wei Peng.

"You arrange a few people to go to the street and buy acorns in large quantities. You can send people to other towns to buy acorns in large quantities."

"Son, what do we need so many acorns for?"

Acorns are the cheapest of all grains, but they don't taste very good.

Thinking of the various measures of the previous son, he always received good results, and the most intuitive performance was that he could earn a lot of money.

"I'm going to try some wine from acorns."

Acorns contain a lot of starch, so they should be able to make wine. When he went to Suifeng City this time, he planned to make some wine and bring it to sell for money.

In addition, there are too many sweet potatoes on Qifeng Mountain. It is not easy to sell in this small place, and a larger place is needed to handle it.

Wei Peng left in a hurry after receiving the order. He didn't know how to make wine, but the young master said yes, then there must be no problem.

There were some ready-made acorns in the warehouse. Zhang He took more than 100 catties and asked the zombies to crush the acorns and then remove the shells.

Acorns contain a lot of tannins, which are very bitter to eat. You need to soak them in water for a period of time to remove some of the tannins.

In fact, tannins are contained in many winemaking materials, such as sorghum and grapes. In addition to being bitter, the tannins in them can also be transformed into an aroma substance over time, adding flavor to the wine.

Some wines also have some specially added tannins, but too much tannin is too bitter to taste.

Zhang He soaked the shelled acorns in clean water for seven days, changing the water once a day.

Then steam it, let it cool, and when the temperature is not hot enough, stir in the koji.

His koji seeds were not very glamorous. They were stolen from a brewery by sneaking into a brewery at night.

He originally wanted to buy it with money, but people regarded this as a secret that was not passed on, and he would not sell it, so he had no choice but to do it.

You only need some seeds to make koji, and then you can make koji with grain. The principle is similar to that of brewing. For Zhang He, it's not too difficult. .

After the steamed acorns and koji are mixed evenly, they are loosely packed into several large jars.

In the early stage, the yeast in the koji reacted with the starch to convert the starch into sugar. At this time, a large amount of oxygen was required to participate, and ventilation was required.

Two days later, the acorns had a smell of wine, and they tasted sweet.

At this time, pour in a large bucket of water, soak all the acorns, and then cover the outside tightly with a lid.

This is one of many brewing processes. Generally, the fragrance and semi-solid fermentation is this kind. The advantage of this method is that the wine yield is high.

In addition to making wine with acorns, Zhang He also made a batch of wine with sweet potatoes, ready to compare the pros and cons.

Now is the harvest season of acorns. Wei Peng bought a lot of acorns in just over ten days.

This thing is cheap, only a penny a pound, and a large warehouse is charged for dozens of dollars.

It just so happens that the wine made by Zhang Hexian is also fermented about the same. I plan to distill it first and see it. If there is no problem, it will be put into production in large quantities.

During this period of time, he had already customized a wooden retort and a heavenly pot. These things were very common in the countryside in the past life. There was no distilled alcohol in this world, and naturally there was no such equipment.

On this day, Old Man Zhang, Wei Peng, Ma Gan and others gathered around the stove, wondering what kind of trick Zhang He was going to play with these wines.

In their eyes, the liquids in the vats are already wine.

I saw Zhang He poured the wine and the lees into a large pot, and placed a strange wooden retort on top of it, and a large iron pot filled with water was placed on top of the wooden retort.

The fat tiger was in charge of burning the fire, and when a lot of firewood went down, he soon heard the sound of gurgling from the pot.

"Alas! Come out, come out!"

I saw the pipe sticking out from the wooden retort, after the fragrance of wine wafted out, a clear liquid flowed out, and Zhang He quickly caught it with a large bowl.

The first bowl of wine, Zhang He, was poured into a small jar by itself, and the front end of the wine could not be drunk directly.

There are many kinds of fusel alcohol in the head of the wine, including the high content of methanol.

In particular, he didn't know the material for making wine, acorns. The methanol in sweet potato wine is notoriously high. If it is not good, it will kill people.

However, since the boiling point of methanol is much lower than that of ethanol, most of the methanol is concentrated in the first bowl of wine.

As long as this first bowl is discarded, it will be fine.

When Zhang He received the second bowl of wine, he handed the bowl to Old Man Zhang to taste.

"Is this wine?"

Everyone knows that wine is cloudy, usually red, black or yellow, but I have never seen it like this. It looks like water and smells like wine.

Old man Zhang brought the bowl to his mouth and took a big gulp. Everyone is used to taking such big gulps, and small gulps are boring.

"Cough cough cough..."

How could old man Zhang ever drink such a spicy liquor, his mouth was like fire like a knife, his tongue trembled from the heat, and he swallowed it, like a fire dragon burrowing straight into his belly.

But old man Zhang He Xuren, just swallowed this big mouthful of wine, no matter how uncomfortable he was, he was not willing to spit out a drop, and after swallowing it, he couldn't help coughing again and again.

"Good wine! You try it!"

The old man Zhang handed the wine bowl to Wei Peng next to him, and then everyone in the room took a sip, taking turns to drink the bowl of wine to the bottom.

The reaction to drinking was similar to that of Old Man Zhang, and he was so hot that he cried.

Undistilled wine is generally only ten degrees, and no more than twenty degrees at most, because the yeast will be killed by alcohol after fermentation to a certain extent, and it cannot continue to ferment to increase the alcohol degree.

Even if it is this kind of low-alcohol wine, the winery will still mix it with some water when it is sold, and many inns will have to mix it with water again when it is bought back.

When ordinary people actually drink it in their mouths, there are only a few degrees left.

There is also wine that has not been mixed with water, but it is very expensive, and most people cannot afford it.

However, this kind of distilled wine has a high degree of content. The head wine that has just been steamed has the highest degree. This semi-solid wine head has at least fifty or sixty degrees. If it is fully fermented, the head wine can reach seventy or eighty degrees.

Those of you who can only occasionally drink a pot of water mixed with wine, and occasionally drink a drink of fifty or sixty degrees, who can stand it.

"Son~www.wuxiahere.com~ How much water do you think we need to mix this wine to sell?"

Although Old Man Zhang didn't have the concept of alcohol content, he could feel that this kind of wine, like clear water, had a very high concentration.

Of course, you have to mix a lot of water into it to make more money.

After he asked this question, it reminded Zhang He that the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty have always been used to drinking low-alcohol wine, and suddenly drinking such a strong wine, it is estimated that they can't adapt to it, but it is not easy to sell.

After thinking about it for a while, a light flashed in my head and an idea came to mind.

If this idea can be successfully implemented, he should be able to defeat all other wine merchants and monopolize the high-end wine market of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty.

"We don't add water to it, we add wine to it."

"How is this exchanged?"

Old Man Zhang and the others all looked surprised. They had never heard of mixing wine with wine.