What is the 12987 process for soy sauce wine?

The "12987" process for soy sauce wine refers to the one-year production cycle of soy sauce wine, which requires two feedings, nine steamings, eight fermentations, seven wine pick-ups, and finally three years of storage and aging to fill and ship out the wine. The production cycle of soy sauce wine is one year.

The brewing process begins during the Dragon Boat Festival, and then the sand (grain) is dropped off during the Chung Yeung Festival, with nine times of steaming, eight times of fermentation, seven times of wine extraction, and then a careful blending process before the altar is sealed and put into storage, taking one year to complete the entire production cycle.

Introduction of the 12987 process

Moutai Town is proud of its 12987 process, a cycle. 12987 process in the "1", meaning that in the Daqu Sauce wine brewing process, the process is completed. It takes one year to complete a cycle in the brewing process. It takes one year to complete the cycle, with two grain pitches, nine steaming sessions, eight fermentations and seven wine pick-ups. That's why it's called the 12987 process.

After a thousand years of precipitation and summarization, the 12987 process is known for its complex, time-consuming and costly procedures, low wine yield, and high quality wines, making it the best process for brewing soy sauce wines nowadays.

The "2" in the 12987 process is "two times". It means that in the brewing process of Daqu soy sauce wine, it is necessary to throw grain twice. Chongyangxia Sha "Sha" means red grain, i.e., sorghum. The first feeding process is the so-called "sha" in the production process of soy sauce liquor. The "sand" includes six processes such as wetting sand, steaming, cooling, adding quartz, stacking, and fermenting in the cellar.

The second feeding that is in accordance with the ratio of 1:1, adding new sorghum, continue on the retort cooking. After cooling, add the quartz medicine, collect the pile of fermentation, and then re-under the cellar. The first two cooking raw materials are not to take wine, only to increase the fermentation time, wrapped more microorganisms. Nine times cooking, the "9" in the 12987 process. It means that in the brewing process of Daqu soy sauce wine, *** need nine times cooking.