Zhu Ji rice wine

Speaking of wine, I think the best drink is glutinous rice wine in my hometown. Every Spring Festival, my father will take me back to Zhuji to celebrate the New Year. His old man likes to drink bowls of home-brewed rice wine with his uncle. Zhuji's rice wine is pure, sweet and honest. Different from honey wine in Shou Chang, in the process of yellow rice wine brewing, adding soju to improve alcohol content and adding honey to improve sweetness. People who don't know think this honey wine tastes good, so they swallow it in one gulp. As a result, they looked like Guan Yu without a few drinks, and danced at the top of their lungs when they were drunk, but they were not as handsome as Guan Gong holding his fingers in the spring and autumn. Hometown rice wine tastes sweet, soft, pure and natural. It never cheats you. Just take a sip and you'll know you have to do what you can. After drinking to a certain extent, enough is enough, stop drinking and vote.

I'm not very clear about the practice of rice wine in my hometown, but there are always several steps: washing rice, steaming, cooling, pouring glutinous rice or japonica rice (late rice) into a huge jar, adding cool and sweet well water, adding homemade or bought medicated wine, covering the lid, and finally spreading a layer of straw and cotton trousers for heat preservation and fermentation. If the weather is warm, it will take about ten days and a half months to lift the lid and open the cylinder.

In my memory, there is a wellhead in the middle of the white sparkling wine in the vat, and there is a special tool for scooping wine. First put a long bamboo basket into the wine well, and then scoop the wine with a long bamboo handle. Before drinking, it is best to warm the steel cauldron with rice wine in the soup pot. Of course, you can also bake it on the fire for a while. Among the Three Kingdoms, there is a description of Hua Xiong being beheaded by a mass of warm wine. It can be seen that the ancients also knew that warm wine would not hurt the stomach, but could dredge the meridians, relax the tendons and activate the collaterals and increase the spirit.

If you are too busy to make rice wine this year, it's your uncle's turn to play Shaoxing wine at the Eight Immortals table. Some people here add brown sugar and beer to the old wine, not to mention destroying the pure tunnel of daughter red, and sometimes this mixed wine will serve as a prank prop.

I like the wine in my hometown, the simplicity of drinking, the sincerity of toasting and the atmosphere of the banquet. This class reunion has the opportunity to see what the students are doing when they are drinking in their hometown.