Brewing steps and methods of yellow rice wine

Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, China is famous for its yellow sauce. Because of the different colors of sauces, there are yellow-brown "Zhuangyuanhong" and yellow-brown "Zhuyeqing". This high-alcohol wine has been stored for many years. The jar is painted with red pigment, dried and then painted with yellow-green pattern. The mouth of the jar is sealed with clay and then painted with color. This wine is called "Flower Carving".

1. Soak rice. Choose better glutinous rice or rice and wash it; Soak in ordinary cold water for 8- 10 hour and drain for later use.

2. rice. Put the drained rice into a pot and steam until it is 90% cooked. Remove from the fire. Rice is required to be steamed until it is hard outside and soft inside, without sandwich, loose and non-sticky. Don't lift the lid immediately after cooking, put the rice in the pot and take it out when it is almost cold. Break up after cooking; Then spread out the vegetables and air them below 28℃.

3. Pre-fermentation. Pour the prepared water, culture koji and medicinal liquor into the jar and mix with the steamed rice evenly, cover it, dry it at room temperature in summer, put it on the heater or in front of the stove in winter, and the rice will become soft and sweet in about 3 days, then stir it with chopsticks, and wine will ooze out. At this time, the temperature in the tank reaches about 23℃, and the early fermentation can be stopped.

Step 4 squeeze. Put the pre-fermented raw materials into a clean cloth bag, press boards and heavy objects on it, and squeeze out the wine.

5. Stir-fry wine (heat sterilization). Put the pressed white wine into a pot and steam it (any kind of steamer can be used), and stop heating when the temperature in the pot rises to 85 degrees.

Filter. Make a cloth bag with bean bags, pour the steamed wine into the bag, filter and store the filtrate.

7 seal. Put the filtrate into a clean jar, wrap the jar mouth with clean kraft paper, then seal the jar mouth with straw or rice husk and mud, then put the jar in a suitable place, and you can open the jar for drinking after more than two months.

The production technology of Shaoxing yellow rice wine is extremely exquisite and complicated. After oral instruction from experienced winemakers from generation to generation, the practices and techniques of yellow rice wine were constantly summarized, and they were improved and improved with the help of modern science and technology, which made it develop to today's point.