Chapter 24: Rye, dark beer?

To be honest, Marin despised the European domestic pigs of this era, not to mention the small size and the small number of litters. European pigs of this era only produced a few piglets per litter. Which is like the Taihu pigs raised in the previous family of Marin, it is called a cow, it can produce more than a dozen piglets in one litter, and more than 20 pigs in a high litter ...

Pigs do not want family planning, the more litters, the better. In this way, the scale of farming is also expanding rapidly. Moreover, Taihu pigs are larger and grow faster than current European domestic pigs. It can be said that all aspects have exploded. Later, Europeans introduced and crossbred specially to improve the quality of native European pigs.

However, the Taihu pig appeared in the Wanli period in the late Ming Dynasty. Now, Wanli's grandfather Jia Jing has not yet ascended the throne. However, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang generations should have excellent breeds of domestic pigs. If it can be introduced, it can also greatly promote the pig industry.

In fact, Marin wanted to introduce not only Taihu pigs but also wheat varieties from the Ming Dynasty. Because, the native wheat of Europe is too pitted right now. Not to mention the low yield, the growth cycle is super long!

After wheat is planted in November, it will not be harvested until October next year. Nimad, the growth cycle is almost a year away, what kind of broken breed?

Know that the previous Marin hometown was a continuous crop of rice and wheat. Wheat is planted in November in autumn and harvested in late May of the following year. Then, rice was planted in June, and harvested in October ... exactly, you sang me to debut ...

That is to say, the growth cycle of Huaxia wheat is a few months shorter than that of the current European ruined wheat! Not to mention wheat, rye is also sowed in spring and harvested in October. This has also led to the fact that only one round of crops can be grown on cultivated land every year, which is very inefficient. But Marin has no choice but to be such a breed. He used potash and phosphate fertilizers, but only let rye be harvested about 20 days in advance. If you want early maturity, you must change varieties ...

Therefore, Marin intends to find opportunities to go to Daming, introduce Taihu pig breeds, and introduce short-growing, higher-yielding Chinese wheat varieties. In this way, agriculture and animal husbandry will be further promoted.

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Marin was happy because she thought of a good way to consume part of the food by raising pigs. So, he planned to have a drink ...

In fact, Marin hasn't been drinking for a long time. At home, probably influenced by Italy and the Holy See, Angela and Felice are used to drinking red wine. According to religious interpretation, drinking red wine is equivalent to drinking "holy blood". However, Marin is not used to drinking red wine. Therefore, he would rather boil water than drink wine. In fact, Marin prefers tea and milk tea. Unfortunately, there is no ...

Moreover, in the past, in order to save food, Marin advocated drinking water instead of beer in East Friesland. However, he is happy today, so he plans to go to the pub for a beer ...

In fact, at Marin's house, besides Marin, the old Hoffman and Adler also like to drink beer. It's just that after Marin became a family, he generally stopped eating with his parents and brothers. Only during the holidays will they sit together to eat, but also drink some wine with his wife Angela.

Does not mean that Marin does not like to drink beer. In fact, Marin likes to drink beer very much. However, in this era, beer production has not yet stipulated that hops must be added (this regulation was only mandatory by the Duke of Bavaria in 1516), so the taste is bad. Without hops, the unique flavor of beer will be lost. Moreover, beer will be more rancid, and together it has a sour taste, a bit like the smell of swill ...

Therefore, Marin is not used to the beer of this era ...

Does not mean that there is no hops, but hops generally grow in southern Germany. There is no hops in the northern region. If you want, you have to go to the south to buy ...

Where do ordinary people want to spend money to buy hops back in the south? Even if the amount of hops is not much ...

Therefore, the beer that ordinary people drink is basically "swill" beer that does not contain hops. Malining can drink plain water instead of drinking this kind of beer. So, for a long time, Marin has forgotten the taste of beer ...

Walked into a pub in Aurich and saw the Lord Earl coming, and the bartender immediately greeted him warmly, recommending various high-end wines-low-end wines are not in line with Marin's identity ...

"Master Earl, you see, this is a high-grade dark beer from Dortmund, the kind with hops ..."

"Dortmund ... dark beer ..." Marin seemed inspired, but didn't remember it for a moment. As a result, the Dortmund dark beer delivered by the bartender slowly tasted.

Probably because of the addition of hops, the taste of Dortmund dark beer is very good, relatively mellow and slightly sweet, and the bitter taste of hops is not obvious. According to the bartender, this is the masterpiece of Dortmund's winemaker Bohr ...

In fact, Free City of Dortmund, as a Hanseatic city, has a history of brewing beer for more than 200 years. However, it is said that the southern Munich, brewing technology is stronger ...

After drinking, Marin felt that it was not fun, so he brought a bucket back to the palace. It happened that when he met old Hoffman, the father and son had a few drinks together.

"Ah, it really is the authentic Dortmund dark beer, it's really cool to drink!" Obviously, the old Hoffman was a dark beer enthusiast. Moreover, the home of the Hoffman family is located near Bochum, not far from Dortmund. Before Hoffman, he actually drank too much of the Stermund stout, but there were fewer opportunities. Under normal circumstances, the old Huffman drank low-grade beer without hops. After all, the family was not rich before ...

"Is it so delicious?" Marin was puzzled. He just felt that it was just more of a taste than the rancid and inferior beer without hops.

In fact, although Marin had drank a lot of beer in the previous life, it was more just for friends to gather together, drink beer and eat barbecue ... That kind of feeling is very good ... So, Marin just likes to drink beer , The feeling of eating barbecue, not how much you like to drink beer ...

But the old Huffman is different. He is an authentic German, and his love of beer is difficult for people in other countries to understand. Old Huffman was even excited when he drank the authentic master brew of dark beer ...

"I tell you, Marin, these good wines are made by those master brewers who selected black malt, hops, and clear spring water in the mountains. It took the boss's effort to brew it ..."

"What did you just say?" Marin suddenly stood up and asked, staring at Old Huffman, his expression seemed excited ...

"What are you doing? Placing your face on your old man? Don't look at you as count, I will beat you as well!" Old Hoffman was dissatisfied with Marin's attitude and thought Marin was angry with himself ...

"No, dad, I asked what you said just now, this is very important to me!" Marin said seriously.

"Oh, I think about it, it seems to be the master's selection of black malt ..."

"Yes! That's it! Rye malt!" Marin jumped up excitedly ...

"What happened to rye malt?" Old Huffman was a little confused ...

"Dad, our family now has too much food to put, rye is everywhere. In order to put these rye ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ I have built a new city ... you think, rye, no. Can it develop into dark malt? With hops and spring water, can you brew a delicious dark beer? "

Marin just thought like an epiphany, and thought of a brilliant idea-take out part of the grain and vigorously brew dark beer ...

He has so much rye in his hand that a ton of rye can produce 10 tons of beer. So much rye, God knows how much dark beer can be brewed ...

"But, we don't have hops ... nor master brewers ..." said the old Hoffman doubtfully.

Not that rye makes good dark beer. There must be hops and masters who know how to brew dark beer ...

"What are you afraid of? My son is not short of money. Hops, right? I sent someone to the south to buy a large number of them back! Master brewer? Smashing money! Throwing a lot of gold coins on his face, don't believe him? Will come! "Marin said in a very" upstart "tone ...

Then, Marin really sent his hands down to the south of Germany ...

His men are divided into three ways, all the way to buy hops; all the way to Dortmund, with a lot of gold coins, to "crush" top beer brewing masters; the other way is to "crush" top beer brewing masters with gold coins, but only Went to Munich ...

At the same time, after the departure of these three roads, Marin also sent people to buy new oak barrels for beer brewing. You know, the wine brewed in oak barrels will taste much better ...

As long as you have good beer, you ca n’t sell it if you do n’t believe it. You know, Marin suddenly remembered that most Germans are beer lovers. As long as there is good wine, there will be a market ...

In this way, it can be regarded as helping Marin deal with a lot of accumulated rye. Moreover, it is not as eye-catching as selling food in large quantities ...