2024-09-01

How to Pour Wine at the Table

For a long time in Chinese history, eating and drinking has always been a difficult task. Especially on important occasions, one of your small actions may lead to the failure of negotiations or business.

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2024-08-28

Why does red wine drink?

Softening tannins: The tannins in red wine may make the taste bitter and raw. In the process of sobering up, tannins will be oxidized after contact with oxygen, which makes the taste softer and more complex, and improves the quality and taste of red wine.

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2024-08-21

One minute to understand the main differences between white wine and rice wine, beer and red wine

Liquor, rice wine, beer and red wine have significant differences in raw materials, brewing, alcohol content, taste, drinking occasions and cultural background. Liquor raw material for grain, high alcohol content, commonly used in formal occasions; rice wine, mellow taste, suitable for meals; beer taste fresh, suitable for leisure; red wine taste soft, commonly used in banquets.

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2024-08-14

Why Private Brewing is Harmless

The main reasons for the harm of private brewing include excessive methanol, contamination by miscellaneous bacteria, easy explosion, high lead content, high cyanide content, and the production of suspected carcinogens. Excessive methanol: In the process of self-brewing, the production of methanol is inevitable, and the methanol content is related to the thoroughness of the fermentation process. Methanol is very harmful to the human body and can easily lead to health problems 1. Miscellaneous contamination: It is often difficult to effectively remove pesticide residues and prevent contamination during the brewing process, which can lead to the accumulation of toxic substances. The problem of contamination of self-brewing bacteria is very common, and these bacteria and viruses can have a very serious impact on human health 1. Explosive: In the process of self-brewing, due to the generation of gas, the pressure in the container will continue to increase, which can easily cause the explosion of the container, resulting in serious injuries and losses. High lead content: The lead contained in liquor is mainly from the lead in the distiller, the condensing duct, and the wine storage container. The higher the lead content of these utensils and the higher the acidity of the wine, the greater the lead erosion of the utensils. In order to reduce the lead content of liquor, try to use lead-free metal to hold liquor or make appliances and equipment 2. High cyanide content: Cyanide in liquor mainly comes from raw materials, which are hydrolyzed to produce hydrocyanic acid in the liquor making process. When poisoning is mild, people have salivation, vomiting, diarrhea, shortness of breath, and when it is severe, they have difficulty breathing, convulsions, coma, and die within a few minutes to two hours2. Production of suspected carcinogens: Self-brewing inevitably produces small amounts of methanol and other miscellaneous alcohols during fermentation, as well as a naturally occurring suspected carcinogen called 'ethyl carbamate. Therefore, in order to ensure their own health, it is recommended to choose to buy regular manufacturers of wine, rather than their own private brewing 1.

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2024-08-07

The difference between red wine and white wine

The main differences between white wine and red wine are brewing raw materials, alcohol content, taste, drinking occasions and cultural background. Brewing raw materials: The main raw materials of liquor are grains, such as sorghum, wheat, barley, etc., while the raw materials of red wine are grapes. 12 Alcohol content: the alcohol content of white wine is usually between 38% and 53%, which belongs to high alcohol content; the alcohol content of red wine is generally between 12% and 15%, which is between white wine and beer. 12 Taste and flavor: liquor has a strong taste, with spicy flavor, but also has fruity and sweet taste, rich taste; red wine has a soft taste, with fruity and sour taste, and the presence of tannins gives red wine a unique taste structure. Drinking occasions and collocation: liquor is often used in social, party and other formal occasions, but also often as the main wine at banquets; red wine is often used in formal banquets or romantic dinners, and red meat, cheese and other food perfect match. Cultural background: As a part of Chinese traditional culture, liquor is often used in major celebrations or occasions with strong traditional colors; red wine is a kind of wine, and its brewing skills and tasting culture also have a long history and inheritance. 23 In summary, there are obvious differences between white wine and red wine in terms of raw materials and brewing methods, alcohol content, taste and flavor, drinking occasions and collocation, and cultural background.

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2024-07-31

How many red wines?

Red wine is the appearance of color approximate purple or present dark red, ruby red, red with brown, brown red and other colors of wine. Among them, red wine can be subdivided into dry red wine, half dry red wine, half sweet red wine and sweet red wine. The composition of red wine is quite simple. It is a fruit wine brewed by natural fermentation. It contains more than 80% grape juice, followed by alcohol produced by natural fermentation of sugar in grapes, generally 10% to 30%. The remaining substances are more than 1000 kinds, and there are more than 300 kinds of important ones. Other important components of red wine are tartaric acid, pectin, minerals and tannic acid.

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2024-07-22

What is Hops?

Many drinkers understand that when shaking the bottle, we often find the liquor bubbling, which is commonly known as "hops". Many people think that more hops are good wine, less is poor quality; the faster the hops disappear, the higher the degree of wine. Is this true? Judging the quality of liquor by hops is unreliable and uncertain, but it is still possible to distinguish the degree of liquor by hops. Xiao Bian will teach you a cold knowledge of how to judge the degree of liquor through hops-"flower-watching measurement", and distinguish the degree of liquor according to different hops. Simply put, due to different alcohol concentrations, the surface tension of the wine is different, so the size and retention time of the hops formed by shaking the wine bottle are also different. Therefore, hops can be used as a reference to identify the degree of liquor. 1. Daqinghua Hops are as big as soybeans, neat and consistent, clear and transparent, disappear very fast, and the alcohol content is 60 ~ 75%(v/v). 2. Xiaoqinghua Hops size such as mung bean, clear and transparent, disappear slower than the big clear flowers, alcohol content of about 50 ~ 60%(v/v). 3. Yunhua Hops, such as rice grains, overlap each other (can overlap two to three layers) for a long time, about 2 minutes, and the alcohol content is between 40 and 50%. 4. two flowers Also known as florets, shaped like cloud flowers, different sizes, large ones such as rice, small ones such as millet, the retention time is similar to that of cloud flowers, and the alcohol content is between 15 and 40%. 5. oil flower Hops, such as 1/4 of millet, are full of liquid surface, mostly oil droplets formed by fatty acids, and the alcohol content is obvious at 5%(v/v). Thus, to sum up: The bigger the hop, the faster it dissipates-the higher the alcohol The smaller the hop, the less it dissipates, the slower it dissipates-the lower the alcohol content Take Luzhou-flavor liquor as an example: 52-degree and 38-degree liquors are common on the market, and 52-degree liquors should present small clear flowers, the size of mung beans, and the dissipation speed is medium and high. On the other hand, 38 degrees should present two flowers, of different sizes, and the dissipation speed is slow. Of course, if you really want to judge the quality of wine, you have to rely on wine tasting and sensory identification. This little skill only allows everyone to have one more gadget when drinking, and to understand a deeper "wine meaning" through the wine bottle ". Next time you drink, don't forget to try it!

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2024-07-19

There are several ways of liquor fermentation

Liquor is a kind of distilled liquor unique to China and one of the eight largest distilled liquors in the world. It is made from starch or sugar raw materials into fermented grains or distilled after fermentation. so what are the ways of fermentation of liquor? 1. Solid-state fermentation Solid fermentation is the traditional production mode of famous liquor in China, that is, solid ingredients, fermentation, steamed grain distillation of liquor production mode. Among them are Daqu, Xiaoqu and Bran Qu liquor. Photo 2, semi-solid fermentation Semi-solid fermentation refers to the use of solid saccharification, liquid fermentation distillation of liquor production methods. China's rice-flavor liquor and soy-flavor liquor are typical semi-solid fermentation wines. 3. Liquid fermentation Liquid fermentation is the use of alcohol production methods, that is, liquid ingredients, liquid saccharification, liquid fermentation and distillation of liquor production methods. At present, this kind of liquor is relatively rare in our country.

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