How to make cinnamon wine from dried cinnamon flowers? How to make wine with dried osmanthus flowers?

Osmanthus wine is a traditional Chinese wine, from a long time ago, people have used osmanthus to brew wine lung fever custom. To this day, people still retain this practice, then, dry osmanthus how to make wine? What are the tips?

Dry osmanthus how to make osmanthus wine

The method of making osmanthus wine:

First, soak the rice: water into the tank, submerged rice, wooden ladle stirring to make the dirt floating skimmed and discarded. Four hours is appropriate. Second, steaming rice: on the cage, burn a large fire, cooked up to eighty percent, away from the fire, water, the first rice in the middle of the cage after around, the temperature dropped to below three degrees can be. Third, mixing: spread out in the case, sprinkle the surface, mix, need to be uniform. Fourth, the cylinder: first set a wooden stick, in the center of the cylinder, the rice from all around into the gently patting pressure, after the wooden center of the rotation of the extraction, the mouth into a trumpet shape. Covered with a white cloth, and then add a soft round straw mat to maintain a temperature of 30 degrees, three days after the wine grains will be cooked. Fifth, over the wine: the mouth of the cylinder placed two sticks, copper wire rods on the frame, how many spirits of wine in the roo, with how much raw water several times under the hand into the spirits of wine into the turn, stirring, rubbing, pressure, repeated and repeated, the wine is dry spirits. Put saccharin in the wine, add cinnamon, heat and boil.

How to choose wine

The brewing of top quality osmanthus wine must use authentic quality glutinous rice wine, and the degree of wine should be more than 35 degrees. This is because rice wine is not only rich in nutrients, but also has been the best choice for brewing medicinal wine since ancient times. Some friends may say that yellow wine is the first choice for making medicinal wine, but in fact, yellow wine is also a kind of rice wine. It's just that because yellow wine has a distinctive flavor, using it to make osmanthus wine will mask the fragrance of osmanthus, so white glutinous rice wine is the preferred choice for making osmanthus wine, not yellow wine. If you really can not find more than 35 degrees of glutinous rice wine, then use a high degree of white wine instead of it, high degree of white wine in the best choice is Beijing Erguotou, this kind of white wine is the most pure flavor, no miscellaneous tastes.

How to choose osmanthus

Of all the varieties of osmanthus, the golden osmanthus is the best, because this osmanthus is the most fragrant. Of course, it is better to use fresh osmanthus flowers just picked, and it is best not to wash osmanthus flowers, only need to sieve the small impurities in the osmanthus flowers, and pick up the larger impurities with the hand can be. Because washing will lose the flavor and medicinal properties of osmanthus, if you have to wash it must use the correct cleaning method to minimize the loss of flavor and medicinal properties.