#50 - Chapter 50 Distilled Spirits
After the banquet with Zhang Zhu and Li Mo, Cheng Feng fell silent once more.
Although two young masters of their caliber were helping him find someone to teach him medical skills, Cheng Feng still felt the hope was slim.
Cheng Feng started tinkering with distilled spirits at home, an idea that only came to him after interacting with Li Mo.
That meal was valuable.
But the Yun Chun Brew, cherished and treasured by Li Mo, was probably even more valuable.
Cheng Feng had even inquired about the price of Yun Chun Brew.
Apologies, Yun Chun Brew is a seasonal delicacy.
It only considers the person, not the price.
It's a special offering for people of status.
Ordinary people aren't worthy.
Cheng Feng needed money now.
To buy a house, buy women, buy servants.
Cheng Feng needed a place to settle this whole family.
So that when children were born, they would have a place too.
Now, all three women in Residence Number One were pregnant, and Cheng Feng felt that Residence Number Two would soon follow.
If he needed to accelerate his cultivation progress, then logistics naturally had to keep up.
Pregnancy was inevitable.
Previously, Cheng Feng was only focused on struggling to survive.
He had no leisure to pay attention to things like wine and spirits.
The wine and spirits given as gifts with the purchase of the residence were Cheng Feng's first exposure.
Returning home, he prepared brush and ink.
He wrote down all the methods and techniques of distillation he knew from his previous life.
And organized the content and order.
1. Pour the fermented wine liquid into the steamer and heat the steamer with fire to bring the wine liquid to a boil.
2. Place the distiller on top of the steamer, ensuring that the bottom of the distiller is in contact with the steam from the steamer. The distiller usually has a long neck and a spherical top.
3. Guide the steam: Install a tube on top of the distiller to guide the steam into a cooling container.
4. Cool the steam: In the cooling container, use water or other cooling media to cool the steam. This will cause the steam to condense into a liquid, which is the initially distilled wine.
5. Collect the wine: Collect the distilled wine through an opening at the bottom or side of the distiller.
6. Prepare the equipment: You will need a large steamer, a copper or ceramic distiller, a cooling container (such as a wooden barrel or a large earthenware jar), and some tubing.
Simple distiller: Also known as an atmospheric distiller, it is the most basic type of distiller. It separates mixtures by heating them to vaporize them, and then cooling and condensing them in a condenser.
Cheng Feng drew and wrote out the required items and functions as much as possible.
Then he found a famous blacksmith in the area to forge the distiller.
Although some of the styles were a bit strange, the blacksmith could still meet Cheng Feng's needs.
Carrying a strange apparatus, Cheng Feng took Xiao Qing to the kitchen.
Taking out a jar of wine he had saved earlier, he began to experiment again and again.
Burning firewood to distill wine.
He placed the entire distiller on the pot.
The steamed wine liquid, after turning into mist, adhered to the inside of the distiller's pipe.
Following the side tube, it condensed into a large liquid and flowed down the tube.
To the large earthenware jar wrapped in cold water next to it.
In the alternation of hot and cold, the distilled wine slowly condensed in the earthenware jar and gathered.
An aroma of wine permeated the air.
It was several times stronger than the wine in the tavern.
Smelling the aroma of wine in the air, Cheng Feng knew he was more than halfway to success.
As long as there were no mistakes in the early stages, proving that the method from his previous life could really work.
The later stage was nothing more than a matter of gradual improvement.
Next, he tasted the newly distilled wine.
It seemed to have been re-brewed.
Extraordinary.
Looking at the results that had appeared after more than ten days of failure, Cheng Feng was already very satisfied.
In the early stage, the two jars of wine at home were divided into several portions of wine liquid.
In the beginning of the experiment, either the heat was too high and it burned dry, or the heat was too low and there was no movement.
Under Cheng Feng's direction, Xiao Qing kept picking up firewood and adding it to the fire.
But looking at the finished product of the wine liquid, Cheng Feng was not very satisfied.
Insufficient sales appeal and aroma.
The taste was also not distinctive after drinking it.
After using up the two jars of wine at home and still not being satisfied, Cheng Feng felt that he might be using too small a quantity.
He used all of his remaining three taels of silver to buy ordinary wine.
Still the ordinary wine from that Hu Family Wine Shop.
Three large jars, six small jars.
A full sixty jin.
The old shopkeeper of the Hu Family Wine Shop didn't care whether it was for weddings, funerals, or private consumption.
He sold it as long as he got the money.
This sale sold out Cheng Feng's good news.
Watching it being steamed and boiled in a large pot.
The repeated experiments almost made Cheng Feng doubt himself.
Finally, he distilled a wine that Cheng Feng was relatively satisfied with.
Cheng Feng took a small spoon and finally confirmed the feasibility of distilled wine.
After that, it was just a matter of continuing to experiment.
Cheng Feng had tasted national wines like Maotai and Wuliangye in his previous life.
He couldn't brew them, but he still had the taste.
Comparing the several different levels of distilled wine later.
Cheng Feng removed the several shares of wine that were not presentable.
The remaining three types of wine.
According to the different concentrations, Cheng Feng also ranked them into three different levels.
According to Cheng Feng's own experimental notes from the past ten days or so.
A basic portion of wine is half a jin.
Sixty jin is 120 portions of basic wine.
Three portions of ordinary wine repeatedly distilled can distill one portion of wine that is a level above ordinary wine.
Enough to rival the boutique wine of the tavern.
Five portions of ordinary wine repeatedly distilled can distill a pre-life ordinary industrial wine.
Seven portions of ordinary wine can repeatedly distill one portion of wine enough to rival the Erguotou of his previous life.
Plus, removing some of the cloudy initial distilled wine, it has to be repeatedly distilled.
This is Cheng Feng's way of not wasting it.
And it was these initial wines that needed to be repeatedly distilled.
Repeatedly distilled five times, he produced a wine that Cheng Feng praised incessantly.
The taste is mellow and the aftertaste is long.
Cheng Feng decided that this wine would not be sold externally.
He would use it as his trump card.
The combination of Chinese characters + Arabic numerals on the precious manuscript records was enough to make those knowledgeable people dizzy.
As for top-level wines like Maotai and Wuliangye.
He doesn't have the conditions to achieve that now.
But just a wine comparable to Erguotou.
In this Qingxi County, it should be enough to dominate.
For insurance.
The wine that can be compared to the boutique brewing of the tavern, Cheng Feng calls it, Chunxiao (Spring Dawn).
The industrial wine that is a bit more advanced than Chunxiao, Cheng Feng calls it, Xiasang (Summer Sorrow).
The wine similar to Erguotou, Cheng Feng calls it, Qiubei (Autumn Grief).
There is also a trump card that Cheng Feng wants to call Dongmian (Hibernation).
Cheng Feng also tried to distill more ordinary wine.
Unfortunately, funds were limited.
It restricted Cheng Feng's delusions.
Cheng Feng's wine is very simple.
Ordinary wine is distilled to remove impurities from the wine liquid.
The key lies in the distiller and the principle behind it, which are not available here in Da Zhou.
You say water vapor, who understands?
But you say that the boiling water in the pot emits white air above.
Look, who here doesn't understand?
Which family hasn't boiled water?
In addition to the small knowledge I saw in the video in my previous life.
The cost is firewood and ordinary wine liquid.
There are almost no special costs.
The ordinary wine that Cheng Feng bought is also grain wine.
It is equivalent to secondary processing and purification.
The taste, the color of the wine, and the aroma have all been upgraded to a higher level.
And this is also Cheng Feng's basic adaptation model.
Li Mo said that Yun Chun Brew is mainly brewed with ice and snowmelt water from the beginning of spring.
Cheng Feng's wine is completely based on basic wine as the foundation.
Just to increase the price.
Cheng Feng found a few small porcelain bottles.
He separated the distilled wine that he had tasted according to taste and aroma.
And labeled them.
He used Chinese characters from his previous life.
After that, he waited to open the market.
Qiubei is also an extremely high-grade wine liquid.
Cheng Feng asked himself that he was not inferior to Li Mo's treasured Yun Chun Brew.
But Cheng Feng still planned to hide it first.
The most ordinary wine liquid can be used to open up the market.
After that, Xiasang will be more convenient to develop and take the mid-to-high-end route.
Qiubei will only take the high-end route in the future.
Dongmian is the biggest trump card.
It will not appear on the market easily.
Xiao Qing watched Cheng Feng use this strange apparatus to burn those cloudy wine liquids into such fragrant wine.
Thinking about how powerful his master was.
Using a strange thing, he turned ordinary wine into fine wine.
Cheng Feng told Xiao Qing to forget what happened in the past few days.
Don't tell anyone.
Don't say it at home either.
Cheng Feng didn't want the women to worry.
In fact, the women were not worried about Cheng Feng.
What big problems could happen in the kitchen?
Just curious.
The three women in Residence Number One who were pregnant.
Under Cheng Feng's care, they didn't need to think too much.
If someone wanted to chat, someone would accompany them to chat.
If someone wanted to read and write to cultivate their sentiments, Chen Min could help.
Plus, Chen Min's daughter, Chen Zhu, ran and jumped around in the yard.
Initially showing the innocence and liveliness of a child.
The women in the yard also began to look forward to the scene of their own children being born.
In the past ten days or so, Cheng Feng took Xiao Qing into the kitchen mysteriously.
From time to time, there would be a burst of wine aroma.
Thinking of the strange thing that Cheng Feng went to find a blacksmith to build, called a distiller.
How could the women not be curious?
Watching the kitchen door open, Cheng Feng and Xiao Qian walked out with a few small porcelain bottles.
Everyone curiously surrounded the two people and talked non-stop.
Xiao Qing, with Cheng Feng's instructions, only said that she was picking up firewood and burning firewood.
She didn't do anything else.
Sixty jin of ordinary wine.
Under Cheng Feng's experiment.
He got ten jin of Chunxiao.
Eight jin of Xiasang.
Five jin of Qiubei.
Three jin of Dongmian.
A total of twenty-six jin.
Of course, there must have been waste in the experiment.
There was also the cloudy initial wine that Cheng Feng kept.
About ten jin or so.
The rest was either undrinkable or wasted.
Looking at the experimental records in his hand, Cheng Feng didn't care about the waste at all.
With this thing.
In the future, Cheng Feng will have the means of production.
It won't be boundless water anymore.
Cheng Feng doesn't have the foundation and strength to expand production now.
He can only do small business.
In the future.
The future can be expected!
