Chapter 413 Please Wash Your Hands Before Making Wine

The two parties exchanged pleasantries, and Master Kinuma said a few words. A middle-aged man said in proficient Chinese: "Master Kinuma said that he has brewed some new products recently, and he wants to prepare a small tasting party for you. Listen. Listen to your opinions.”

"Really?" the boss was delighted, "I've long wanted to try Master Kinuma's craftsmanship!"

"The wine brewed by Master Kinuma himself is sent directly to the auction house. You are in for a treat today." The middle-aged man said with some pride.

"Hey, great! There's good wine to drink today!" Hearing the people from Baishuang Winery say this, the supervisor's saliva was almost drooling, and he was extremely thirsty.

"Didn't you quit drinking?" Zhou Ye glared.

The supervisor is less than ten years older than him, and when they get along, they are more like friends outside of the workplace. When the supervisor recently checked his body, all indicators were very high, and the doctor told him to stop drinking.

When the supervisor first entered the industry, he once heard a senior say that if you want to sell wine, you must understand the good qualities of wine, so the supervisor studied hard to taste wine. However, the time spent tasting wine did not last long, and the amount of alcohol consumed increased greatly. , drank hard and became an alcoholic.

Not to mention how uncomfortable it is to quit drinking now, but the supervisor's willpower is pretty good. He hasn't seen the supervisor drink for almost a week.

"Such a good wine, why don't you stop drinking! Drink to death!" The supervisor dragged Zhou Ye and followed him.

Not long after, everyone sat down in the conference room, and a small glass of wine was placed in front of everyone.

The supervisor was scratching his head and ears nearby. The wine bug was probably about to bite him through the stomach, but no one else moved and could only stare.

Zhou Ye sniffed it and felt that it had no taste. Seeing others picking up the wine, he also picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.

After he finished drinking it, he was dumbfounded. He saw someone else picking it up, but they didn't drink it at all. They just put it in front of their noses and sniffed it.

Zhou Ye was a little embarrassed.

Then he was glared at by the boss and the guests from Fuso State.

"You kid, you drank too fast!" The supervisor couldn't laugh or cry. Why are you chewing peonies like this? This wine is going to be auctioned, so why are you drinking it like this?

Even if you drink, you have to taste it a little bit.

Didn't you see that the brewmaster, the Fuso guests, and the boss were all sniffing with their left nostrils and sniffing with their right nostrils, looking intoxicated on their faces?

You have to sniff for three to five minutes anyway, right?

However, the supervisor was also curious about what the wine tasted like, so he lowered his voice and asked, "How does it taste?"

"It doesn't taste good..." Zhou Ye frowned, "It feels like colorless rice wine..."

To be honest, Zhou Ye was disappointed.

I originally thought that the brewmaster of Fuso Prefecture would be very capable.

I didn't expect it to be bland and tasteless. The only advantage is that it's quite refreshing.

"Don't you understand, kid?" The supervisor shook his head, "This is wine made by a master, how can it be the same as rice wine!"

"No, I think the wine Uncle Zhuang gave me is much better." Zhou Ye said.

"You don't understand... The bulk wine you brought is delicious... Well, it's really delicious, but can it compare with the master's?" The supervisor didn't believe it. The bottle of wine Zhou Ye brought back had a Most of it went into his stomach.

It was truly the best wine he had ever had in his life.

From that day on, any other wine I drank felt bland and tasted like urine. The more I drank, the worse it became, so I simply quit drinking.

But after all, it is just wine from a small brewery. Can it be compared with this kind of wine from a master Fuso?

The supervisor still thought it was impossible.

"I don't know, I don't quite understand. You will know after you try it yourself." Zhou Ye was also a little confused. After all, he is a master. He can't be inferior to Uncle Zhuang...

Uncle Lao Zhuang was just a retired employee of a winery, right?

Besides, fuso is a traditional craft and craftsman spirit, so it also has mysterious bonuses.

"You don't understand, high-end wine has no taste in the mouth, but it has endless aftertaste. If nothing else, this wine is very high-end!"

Because it doesn't smell like anything, it's not like Lao Zhuang's wine. When you smell the aroma, you take a breath and you feel like you're in a fairyland.

If this is high-level, then I would rather be low-level...

The two people murmured in a low voice. They finally finished sniffing and it was time to drink.

The supervisor impatiently sipped a little, frowned, raised his head in confusion, and drank all the wine with a "squeak", then frowned even more tightly, covered his mouth and coughed. Twice.

"What's wrong?"

"It tastes bad... what a piece of shit..." the supervisor said.

"Pfft..." Zhou Ye burst out laughing.

The two people's snickers aroused the boss's angry glare and the Japanese guest's dissatisfaction. After several consecutive looks that could kill, the two people had to lower their heads and try their best to hold back their laughter and make themselves look more serious.

You can't be rude, I'm a guest, and I'm already so pitiful...

"You two, are you dissatisfied with my wine?" At this moment, an old and cold voice sounded.

Ah, no, this brewmaster actually speaks Chinese?

What they just said must have been heard!

"No, no." Seeing what Zhou Ye wanted to say, the supervisor quickly covered his mouth, "We have never drunk such a delicious wine, so we lost our composure for a moment!"

"You two show true love and are my bosom friends. Please have a few more drinks..."

Damn it, you're talking nonsense!

Seeing the two of them drinking with tears in their eyes, Master Kinuma nodded with satisfaction and introduced: "I chose the late winter to brew this wine. Not only the rice used for brewing, but also every grain is carefully selected, even the rice washed The water is taken from the snow-capped mountains at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters. It is picked before sunrise, melted in stone vessels, and then filtered out impurities. When the temperature rises to 2 degrees, it is used to wash the rice... Only ice water that hurts like a knife can fill the wine with a sharp flavor..."

The boss sighed: "We admire the master's craftsmanship. Only a person like the master can brew such a beautiful wine..."

But the problem is, the wine still doesn’t taste good! Zhou Ye's desire to complain was almost overwhelming.

Sure enough, we don’t understand the world of craftsmen! We are only mortals!

After the tasting session, the boss took the guests to visit, and Zhou Ye and the supervisor returned to the office.

There is still a lot of work to do next.

"Did you say something happened this morning?" While he was busy, the supervisor asked Zhou Ye, "Are you anxious?"

"Yes, I was originally looking for the village owner..."

"What? That's your classmate whose family owns a brewery?" The supervisor was shocked when he heard this, and then waved his hand: "Then why are you still standing there? Why don't you hurry up and go!"

"But I have a lot of work today..."

"Leave it all to me!" the supervisor said, "As long as you remember...bring me some wine when you come back!"

"Got it!" Zhou Ye picked up the car keys and went out.

At five or six o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Ye drove back to the company.

The lights in the company are still bright, and colleagues are still working overtime.

"Did you bring me some wine?" The supervisor glared.

"I brought it, but I didn't bring it either..." Zhou Ye said, and then took out a plastic bag, which was densely packed with things similar to convenience fabric bags.

"What is this?" Looking at the pouch inside, the supervisor wondered.

I asked you to bring wine, why did you bring me a bag of convenience fabrics!

"Brewing bacteria..." Zhou Ye said, "Uncle Lao Zhuang said that if you want to drink it, you can brew it yourself. It's simple and convenient..."

The supervisor was dumbfounded, and then slapped him in the face: "Baga, if making wine is so simple, why do you need a winemaker!"

"But that's what Uncle Zhuang said!" Zhou Ye felt aggrieved. "Uncle Lao Zhuang said, buy some rice and get a temperature-controlled rice cooker or yogurt machine to make low-alcohol wine. Low-alcohol wine If so, it is most appropriate to brew and drink it now. If you want to brew high-quality wine, you have to distill it yourself..."

"Damn it, if it's just ordinary wine, I can just buy it. Can I drink the wine I brewed?"

"Uncle Lao Zhuang said that it is definitely better than most wines on the market." Zhou Ye vowed.

"Real or fake?" The supervisor curiously took out a small bag, put it in his hand, and looked at it over and over.

It really looks like a plastic bag for materials. There are some yellow-white powdery objects sealed inside, and there are a few lines of words written on the bag.

"Zhuangji Winery: Use low-alcohol aroma rice wine type A colonies for mass production, 2 grams (applicable to 2KG wine). Instructions for use: Steam the rice at high temperature. After it cools down to normal temperature, sprinkle the colonies into the rice wine, stir and let stand. Leave it for 4-10 hours, filter it or drink it directly after the bubbles stop. Constant temperature is best."

He turned the small bag over and saw it written on the back: "Strain ingredients: patented Aspergillus oryzae strain 17090411, patented yeast strain 17090918, patented acetic acid strain 17090520, patented lactic acid strain 17092309, ratio 3:3:1:1, suitable for rice brewing …”

Then the supervisor discovered that the bags were actually different.

In addition to low-alcohol aromatic rice wine, there are also low-alcohol fruit wine, ale, beer, and high-alcohol wine. The strains in them are different and the ratios are also different.

The supervisor looked at it and wanted to complain, this is homemade yogurt!

Homemade yogurt is not that simple!

Of course he didn't know that the winery's father had been thinking about mass production of wine recently.

Why is wine so difficult to brew? Because in the wine-making process, microorganisms are too complex and uncontrollable.

In the wine-making process, controlling the environment, temperature, humidity, water quality, etc. is actually to control microorganisms.

But microorganisms themselves are so complex that they require people's instinct, experience and inspiration to compromise with them.

If there could be one or several highly controllable microorganisms that could precisely control their reproduction quantity and speed, and allow them to do what they ordered and prohibited, wouldn't it mean that they would have whatever taste they wanted?

Is this idea feasible?

Impossible for others.

But what the manor is best at is domestication, and Dad Zhuang now has a lot of experience in domesticating microorganisms.

And what Zhou Ye brought back was his finished product.

Although it is still not as good as the wine he brewed by himself, the dependence on the environment and raw materials has been reduced to a minimum.

Then Father Zhuang only needs to multiply the microorganisms and mix them well. The brewing can be left to others.

"Is it really possible?"

"Really, it won't taste any worse than some master's." Zhou Ye complained.

The wine brewed by this master today really impressed him.

"How is it possible? Didn't you listen to what the master said? Only snow water at an altitude of 2,000 meters, and water with only 2 degrees, as cold as a knife, can brew good wine..." The supervisor glared, where is the spirit of craftsmanship?

Without the spirit of craftsmanship, how can we make wine?

"Did Uncle Zhuang say anything to pay attention to?"

"said."

"What?"

“Wash your hands before brewing!”