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What do solid liquor and liquid liquor mean?

Solid liquor refers to liquor produced in the form of solid matrix in the main processes such as cooking, saccharification, fermentation and distillation.

Traditional solid liquor production is made by using sorghum, rice, glutinous rice, corn, wheat and other raw materials, solid state saccharification and fermentation, open production, natural microorganism inoculation and koji making, dry distillation and distillation, pottery jar or wine sea storage and aging and a series of unique technologies and equipment.

Liquid liquor is a base liquor (or edible alcohol) made from starch and sugar by liquid saccharification, fermentation and distillation, which can be mixed with fermented grains or flavored with food additives. The national standard is GB/T 2082 1-2007.

Solid liquor is a traditional liquor in China.

People have formed inherent consumption habits and quality evaluation standards in the long-term drinking process, and it is an important feature of solid liquor to contain very rich flavor substances, so the richness of liquor body has also become an important material basis for judging the quality and value of China liquor. This problem can be explained from the following aspects: (1) A variety of flavor substances were detected in famous wines; The combination of sensory evaluation and flavor detection also shows that the type and quantity of flavor substances have obvious correlation with product quality.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Solid Liquor