Rural wine music production is not complicated, 6 commonly used ingredients and recipes, follow the gourd to draw on the line

The heat of summer is the golden time to make the wine quartz. I remember 20 years ago, every year to three days, in my hometown this side of the basically every family will make wine quartz, are inherited from the ancient method.

Because at that time every family in the village will brew wine to drink, some people brew white wine, some people brew rice wine, and brewing will need to use the wine.

And there is a saying in our local area that the wine quartz can only be made in your own home, and you can't borrow it from others. If you don't have any at home, but you want to make wine, then you have to buy it and never borrow it from others.

At that time, the conditions were not good, the villagers were insisting on "self-reliance", and they were not willing to spend money on their own processing.

The villagers insisted on "self-reliance" at that time, and they could not afford to spend money on their own production.

So how do you make wine music? In fact, the ingredients are all around us, are some very common materials. The following is the raw materials needed for the production of farmhouse wine quartz, as well as the recipe to tell you. In fact, the production is not complicated, according to the gourd to draw a dipper on it, basically a learning will be oh.

Wine quartz is also called wine cake in some places, medicine quartz, or soju quartz, wine cake and so on. It is used to brew rice wine, white wine, an essential raw material, in the words of the people, it is the brewing of the "medicine lead", without which the brewing of wine.

The brewing culture of our country is profound, with thousands of years of history. And since ancient times, the ancients are concerned about the local materials, so the raw materials for brewing wine is also different, some places are more simple, two or three kinds of raw materials can make wine.

Some places are more complicated, more than dozens, or even hundreds of raw materials, after a number of processes to produce a superior wine, but the more complex the wine making recipe, now the more unknown, because many have been lost.

In my hometown, the types of raw materials used to make liquor quarts are still relatively rare, usually as few as three or four, or as many as six or seven, and the more common ones are Polygonum officinale, Verbena officinalis, Lantana officinalis, Bambootanical leaves, Peach leaves, Citrus leaves, etc.

Some of them have been used in the past, and some of them have been used in the past, and some have been used in the past.

Some of the more conscientious old people will also add wormwood, Poria cocos, mulberry leaves, bamboo leaves, lentil leaves, osmanthus leaves and licorice and so on. Because of the different distribution of plants in different places, the ingredients used to make the wine song are also different.

Let's talk about the simpler way of making it here.

No matter what kind of recipe you use to make wine music, Polygonum officinale is an essential ingredient. Polygonum is too common in our lives, but this plant can be subdivided into two kinds, one grows in the water, and the other is in the dry land. And the spicy polygonum that grows near water is usually not spicy, only the ones that grow on dry land.

The picking of polygonum is also a delicate matter, picking early is not spicy, only until the three days of the day, this time the polygonum has grown old, picking its young stems and leaves on the line.

In the early years, we do wine here, will use it, but these years, orchid grass has been very rare, a lot of places have not seen, so some people do not use it.

Orchid grass is also called mountain mint, just because its leaves are too much like mint, this is a small shrub plant, 26-60 cm high, its leaves are picked, a little hard to rub, will smell very good like orchid grass flavor.

A plant that looks very much like wild bamboo, its plant is relatively short, the leaves are lanceolate, very much like bamboo leaves. It usually grows in shady and moist places under the forests on mountain slopes. However, it has expanded spindle-shaped fleshy tuberous roots. In some places there are no light bamboo leaves, often use bamboo leaves to replace it.

As for the remaining vervain, it is a very common plant, and it can be seen on many roadsides, fieldsides, and inside some parks. And peach tree leaves are the leaves of the peach tree, and citrus tree leaves are the leaves of the fruit citrus.

These are not necessary to introduce you know, adding these main role is to increase the flavor. If you can't pick them, it's okay if you don't add them.

In the past, mechanization was not as widespread as it is today, and it was still very troublesome to make the brew. The general principle was to take the plants picked in the mountains and mix them with rice, and then put them into a stone mortar and mechanically pounded them. Then it will be kneaded by hand to become a ball, or pressed into a cake.

But today, the production method is much more convenient, usually all of these raw materials are dried, and then polished into powder with a machine, and then mixed with crushed rice to make it.

First, all the raw materials are dried, which is the ratio of polygonum and rice according to 1 to 13 to prepare, that is, 13 pounds of rice flour need to use polygonum 1 pound. As for the other raw materials, it should be much less, generally is the hot polygonum grass 20 percent on it.

When these materials according to the proportion of crushed, and then and rice flour together, and while mixing and adding water. But the water added should not be too much, when the hand rolled into a ball, and held in the hands of the dry humidity to not stick to the hand for the best.

After all the preparations, you can make the wine, grab a small hand, and then hold it in the palm of your hand, and pinch it hard into the size of a pill. When all are ready, place them one by one in a large dustpan or flat-bottomed tray.

This time you should take out the old wine curd, mash it, and then sprinkle it inside the dustpan, shaking the dustpan so that each grain of wine curd is coated with a thin layer of old wine curd powder.

Once that's done, it's time to start storing. Because of the high temperatures in which it is made, you can place a layer of straw directly inside the basket, and then carefully place the brews one by one inside, remembering to put another layer of straw on top of them. If it's not warm enough, you may want to add a layer of thick quilts or worn clothing to keep it warm and moisturized.

This is placed in a cool, dry place on the board for 48 hours or so, be sure to keep track of the time, when the surface of the brewery if the growth of long white hairs, the length of about three or four millimeters, it means that the brewery fermentation is good.

If the time is longer, the fuzz will become black. If you smell an unpleasant odor, it means that the fermentation has failed.

When the fermentation is done, take them out in time and put them in the dustpan, take them to the sun to dry, and then you can store them well after they are dried. In order to avoid the growth of insects, try to dry for a few days. If it is three days, drying five or six days should be completely dry, and then seal them to save it.

The key to the good and bad of the wine song lies in the control of the temperature, the temperature is not low, the temperature is high is not good, the general control in 24~36 hours. In the past, farmers didn't have thermometers, they judged by experience, because the temperature on the day of the three volts was generally 30 degrees, which was very favorable for fermentation, so at that time they all concentrated on the three volts of the day to make the wine song.

If you don't have the experience, when the fermentation is more than 24 hours, you can open it and check it out, and when you find that there is already a white layer of fine fluff on the wine, it means that the fermentation is very good. This time to pay attention in time, and do a good job of ventilation and cooling, so as not to lead to too high a temperature on the fluffy black, in fact, this is the growth of mold-like plaques, will seriously affect the quality of the wine song.

Friends, see here is not to find that the production of farmhouse wine quartz is not complicated, raw materials are also very common in life, we just have to be patient can be made successfully. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it.

Friends, in your hometown and how to make wine music? Welcome to share, we exchange learning together.