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Difference between ground vat fermentation and cellar fermentation

Features are different: Floor tank fermentation is to bury the fermentation tank into the ground. This type of unique ground tank fermentation process, the project investment, meticulous and complicated, neat and sanitary environment, in our country has long lasted for thousands of years. Cellar is a kind of fermentation container in the process of liquor brewing, that is, the place of grain saccharification and fermentation. The cellar is commonly referred to as a pit dug in the ground, the pit is filled with grain for saccharification and fermentation, the fermented grain is dug out for distillation to get the liquor.

The construction of this "pit" pay attention to the terrain, soil and other innate conditions, the material used in different parts of our country according to local conditions and different materials. Generally speaking, the cellar of strong liquor is a mud cellar, "pit" bottom and around the yellow mud; soy sauce liquor cellar is a stone cellar, "pit" four walls made of stone, the cellar bottom paved with yellow mud; clear liquor cellar can be a cement cellar, brick cellar.

Operating Procedures:

1, wine spirits out of the clear, high-quality white wine with a shovel to shovel part of the cellar on the black spots and mold, with a hand or a small broom to remove the residual grains attached to the cellar wall recesses. Then mention a bucket of boiling water, the upper part of the cellar around the spray, in order to kill fungi, to protect the cellar, and then first with a large broom after a small broom gently sweep the cellar wall, and sweep out the residual spirits out of the up to stay as a small fork or back to the cylinder; not casually discarded.

2, turning double rounds of bottom grains, layered turn, layered stacking, easy to return to the bottom, such as turning to the bottom of the grains enough for the production of the shift, out of the car to pull to the production site, to be used.

3, bottom spirits out of the end, as a broom to clean the walls of the pool, as a shovel to gently scrape the bottom of the residual grains, the walls and bottom of the pool clean, dirty grains into the dregs to bring off, shall not be casually discarded.