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Classification of Baijiu's alcoholic beverages

The main types of solid-state liquor are:

(1) Daqu

Daqu wine, using Daqu as the saccharification fermentation agent, the raw materials of Daqu are mainly wheat, barley, plus a certain amount of peas. It is also divided into medium-temperature, high-temperature and ultra-high-temperature quarts. Generally, it is solid-state fermentation, and the quality of wine brewed by Daqu wine is better, and most famous wines are brewed by Daqu.

(2) Xiaoqu

Small quarts of wine are made from rice, and are mostly fermented in a semi-solid state, and most of the white wine in the south is small quarts of wine. Quill is also known as wine medicine, there is no medicine quill and medicine quill points. There are many varieties of small currant, and the herbs used are also different from each other. But the microorganisms contained therein are mainly root molds and hair molds.

(3) Branqu

This is the post-liberation development on the basis of the Yantai operation method, respectively, pure culture of Aspergillus and pure cultivation of the mother liquor as a saccharification, fermentation, fermentation time is shorter, due to the lower cost of production, most of the distilleries for the use of this type of wine production is the largest. This type of wine has the largest production volume and is consumed by the general public.

(4) Mixed Quartz

This type of wine is mainly made by mixing large quartz and small quartz.

(5) Other

This is a white wine made by fermentation with the enzyme saccharase as the saccharifying agent, plus brewing active dry yeast (or raw yeast).

Types of solid-liquid combined liquor are:

(1) half-solid, half-liquid fermentation liquor

This kind of liquor is based on rice as the raw material, the small song as the saccharification of the fermenting agent, the first in the solid state conditions of saccharification, and then in the semi-solid, semi-liquid under the fermentation, and then distillation of liquor, the typical representative of the Guilin Three Flowers liquor.

(2) string incense liquor

This liquor is made by the string incense process, which is represented by: Sichuan Tuopai liquor.

There is also an aroma string steaming method of liquor, which is made by adding aroma spirits in the aroma grains and then string steaming.

(3) Blended liquor

This kind of liquor is made by blending solid liquor (not less than 10%) with liquid liquor or edible alcohol in the appropriate proportion.

Liquid fermentation baijiu

Also known as "one-step" baijiu, the production process is similar to the production of alcohol, but in the process of absorbing some of the traditional techniques of baijiu, the quality of the wine is generally more bland; some of the process to make up for the use of raw yeast.

In addition, there are flavored white wine, which is based on food alcohol, with food flavors and special flavored white wine blended, its typical representative is the hemisphere king of white wine