Barley wine brewing process and characteristics

Barley wine to the Tibetan Plateau's unique grain crops - barley as raw materials, based on the inheritance of the ancient traditional production process, the introduction of modern technology and equipment, with non-polluting natural high-quality mineral water, scientific ingredients, carefully brewed, stored for a long time to naturally mature and become. Most of the local brewmasters have inherited the secrets of their own wine altars from generation to generation, and some of the altars' histories are not even clear to their own old people. So far, a lot of Qinghai local brewmasters still use the natural production - hand-configured - old altar aging and a series of tedious process composed of ancient technology, in this series of brewing process, Huangshi wine masters pay particular attention to the wine's natural fermentation and static The length of time, but also on the storage of wine vessels have harsh requirements.

Weiyuan Town, Mutual Aid County, Qinghai Province and Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province, Haimaquan Town, are famous barley wine production. Legend has it that the production of barley wine in Mutual Aid is Princess Wencheng married Tubo passed through this place to leave the white wine brewing process, for the Tibetan land brought the origin of wine culture. And Huangshuzhong County is famous for south plastic mountain spring water brewing and Qinghai local. In addition, Huangshuzhong County within the Tibetan Buddhist shrine Tal Temple, is located in the economic and cultural center of Qinghai-Tibet region, since ancient times is the Tibetan culture and Chinese culture extensive exchanges of the front line, cultural and economic exchanges, so that Huangshuzhong County brewing process over the centuries has made great progress. And Mutual aid in Qinghai, belonging to Qinghai Haidong, with a total population of about 344,000 people. Covering an area of 3500 square kilometers. Situated in the Qilian Mountains, the eastern section; Qilian Mountains for a long time to pool the melting water of the snowy mountains into a vein called 'Zalonggou', from the Mutual Assistance North Mountain Forest Park into Huangshui and flow to Xining; known as the Huangshui system vein!

The gradual improvement of barley wine brewing process, in fact, from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Since the Ming Dynasty, with the Qinghai-Tibetan region and the central civilization of the increasingly close links, Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province, Mutual Assistance County, Ping'an County, Guide County, Qinghai Province, such as the agricultural areas, has become the main area of cultural exchanges between China and Tibet, barley wine brewing process with the deepening of economic and cultural exchanges has been a significant development. To this day, Qinghai Province is still an important production area for barley wine, especially in Mutual County, Huangshuzhong County, the most famous barley wine, the two regions of the wine culture has a long history, brewing technology, and the two in the production process there are also some subtle differences.

Since the 1990s, the development of Qinghai barley wine has entered a new stage, many large-scale wine enterprises began a long journey of new product development, barley wine in Qinghai Province has introduced to the market barley wine, barley wine, barley wine, barley beer, barley oak wine and a series of products.

The unique features of barley wine: (and different places of general liquor).

1. Different brewing materials: barley-based.

2. Brewing environment is different: plateau climate (temperature, oxygen content).

3. Brewing water is different: snow mountain holy water, natural mineral water.

4. Wine culture is different: barley wine, ghee tea, Hada is a typical representative of Tibetan culture.

The wine for sending relatives and welcoming relatives fully embodies the enthusiasm and boldness of the people of the Western region.

And barley wine, when drinking at a warm temperature can fully reflect its refreshing, mellow, clean, fragrant body style!

In addition to Qinghai Province, Yunnan Province is also a barley wine production province. Shangri-La County is one of the main producers of barley wine in Yunnan Province, Yunnan Province in 1984, the province's famous wine tasting barley wine ranked third. Shangri-La has developed a series of products such as barley cellar wine, barley gift wine, barley wormwood wine, barley rhodiola rosea wine, barley wine and other low-level wine.

In 2007, barley wine and its brewing technology was named the second batch of Yunnan Province, a class of intangible cultural heritage.

In November 2011, barley wine and its brewing technology was recognized as China's three types of intangible cultural heritage.

In addition, with the rapid development of the economic era, barley wine factories in Tibet have also taken root in sequence, forming a three-pronged barley wine mainstream distribution