Where to buy wine song

Jiuqu is sold in supermarkets, probably alongside yeast powder and the like.

The origins of the wine song are not known, the earliest text on the wine song may be the Zhou Dynasty writings <<Book of Books - Said life chapter >> in the "if you make wine, sweet, er but cork". Analyzed from the scientific principle, the wine is actually from the evolution of moldy grains.

By raw materials to be divided into wheat and rice. Therefore, they are called wheat and rice qu. Qu made from rice, there are many kinds of qu, such as made from rice flour, made from steamed rice or red qu or Wuyi red qu, rice qu (rice qu mold).

By whether the raw material is cooked and treated can be divided into raw wheat quat and cooked wheat quat.

By the additives in the quat, there are many kinds, such as the addition of Chinese herbs is called medicinal quat, and the addition of soybean raw materials is called bean quat (beans, mung beans, etc.).

By the shape of the song can be divided into large song (straw bale song, brick song, hanging song) and small song (cake song), loose song.

By the source of microorganisms in the brew, it can be divided into traditional brew (natural inoculation of microorganisms) and pure brew (e.g., rice brew inoculated with Aspergillus oryzae, rhizoctonia inoculated with Rhizoctonia solani, and Aspergillus niger inoculated with wine brew).

Expanded information:

Schmaltz, generally written as wine quill. When the conidia of Trichoderma reesei are introduced into strongly steamed rice and kept warm, mycelium grows luxuriantly on the rice grains, which is known as liquor quern. The amylase produced by Aspergillus will saccharify the starch inside the rice, therefore, it has been used as raw material sugar at the same time as malt since ancient times, and used to make wine, sweet wine and bean paste. Those who use wheat instead of rice are called maitake.

The production process of traditional Xiaoqu:

Old liquor medicine, water, rice flour, spicy polygonum grass end→mixing→beating solid→cutting block→rolling angle→inoculation→into the cylinder heat preservation culture→into the plaque culture, change the plaque, and plaque→loaded with woks, and out of the woks→sun drying.