In Bozhou, Xiaohuang, the prefecture government, Wang Yuwen Wen of Xiyang was tasting wine. This wine was brewed secretly. The flavor was slightly different from that of common wines in Bozhou. After drinking it in one sip, Yuwen Wen reminded him of a familiar and unfamiliar wine.

The name of the wine is beer.

There is a five-character poem called "Happy", which is "A long-term drought is met with sweet rain, meet old friends in a foreign land, and meet a wedding night, and the golden list is titled." Yuwen Wen experienced a wedding night, and it is impossible to experience a golden list is titled. Now, "A long-term drought is met with sweet rain", so he naturally has to celebrate, and have a "A long-term drought is met with sweet rain".

Beer generally refers to wine brewed with sprouted grains (grain sprouts are called tillers). Beer in the "modern" sense is defined as a low-alcohol wine brewed with malt as the main raw material, hops, and fermented by yeast.

In the "modern" where productivity exploded, beer is a very common alcoholic beverage. It is generally believed that it was introduced to China from abroad in "modern". But in fact, in ancient China, there was already a similar wine called "Li".

Around after the Han Dynasty, liquor was eliminated by the rice wine brewed by jiu koji. In addition, the brewing technology of this era was not as good as "modern", so Yuwen Wen drank a lot of wine but couldn't find the feeling of beer.

He is not a "drunk" and does not drink much, so he doesn't really care about "old knowledge". However, in Xiaohuang City, Bozhou, he tasted the familiar smell of wine from an old man who was selling wine, so he bought all the wine, wine chorus and winemaking skills without hesitation.

Sixty hu of millet is a drop in the bucket for Yuwen Wen. The surprise he accidentally encountered by the folk winemaker, which made him very good at buying sixty hu.

Yuwen Wen did not understand winemaking technology and probably knew that Zhongyuan liked to use wine koji since ancient times. He thought this thing was probably similar to the "catalyst" of fermented substances. When making wine, you must first rely on wine koji to cause fermentation, so wine koji and its use often become the key to the success or failure of winemaking.

How to make the "Divine Song" of efficient winemaking is the secret recipe for brewers. This is usually a ancestral craft that is not easily known to outsiders.

In order to make money, Yuwen Wen had thought of many tricks to make money, including the popular routine - selling high-level wine. However, he is not a master of winemaking. Pure high-concentration alcohol can be steamed through multiple distillation, but the taste is very poor after mixing it with wine. This so-called "high-level wine" is basically unsold.

The failed exploration has allowed Yuwen Wen to study the wine and brewing technology of this era. He probably knows that the popular method of making chorus (composition) is the method of soaking chorus, but the effect varies from person to person.

The method of soaking quint is roughly changed from soaking fermentation in tilapia (grain buds). It is said that the creation of quint is closely related to the time, time, and water. You have to burn incense and worship Buddha, and pray to the gods of the five directions and five earths to give them to them.

According to the book "Qimin Yaoshu" of this era, eight common types of wheat songs in the world (Central Plains) are divided into three categories: divine song, white bao song, and stupid song.

The brewing efficiency of the three types of chorus is different. The most efficient one is the divine song, the lowest one is the brood, and the white chorus is between the two. The name "divine song" may be obtained because of its high brewing efficiency, or it may be that it requires the blessing of the gods from the five directions and five earths when creating the song.

The old man who sold wine used the "Divine Comedy".

The general process of making music is to have a certain auspicious day or auspicious time in a certain season. If a boy in blue wears holds a container, faces a certain direction, and draws water from a certain source several times, and no drop of water can be sprinkled out in the middle.

Then the brewer began various mysterious processes, and finally received the gifts of the gods from the five directions and five earths, and received several divine songs.

Yu Wenwen didn't believe this "feudal superstition". He thought that the key to making chorus should be the chorus (bacteria species), temperature (water temperature, air temperature), humidity, fermentation time and water quality. Therefore, if you want to optimize winemaking technology, you have to introduce science.

With the help of thermometers, hygrometers, microscopes, and improved multiple distillation processes, it will be a matter of time before great development of winemaking technology can be achieved.

How to optimize it is not about Yuwen Wen's business. Anyway, he sent someone to learn winemaking skills from the old man, buy some "divine songs" and think about it slowly in the future.

The traditional crops in the Central Plains are millet and wheat. Rice is only popular in the Yangtze River Basin. Wine made of rice can be called "rice wine", while wine made of wheat can be called "rice wine". If there are good and low-priced ale wine, the market prospects are still pretty good with small profits but quick sales.

When Yuwen Wen visited the people of Bozhou, he found that drinking is quite popular in this area. Although civilians may not even eat enough, the demand for wine among the big and powerful people is not low.

These people are used to eating millet and wheat, and they drink wine made from millet and wheat. They seem to not accept the flavor of rice wine, so if they want to make a profit by selling wine, they have to make a fuss about ale wine.

But the more important thing is the public health problem. In this era of low medical technology, it is difficult to solve the public health problem. However, for Yuwen Wen, no matter how difficult it is, he has to find a way to solve it with existing technology. Providing cheap and large amounts of cleaning water is a relatively easy way to do it.

As the saying goes, "The disease comes from the mouth". If clean drinking water can be ensured, it can reduce people's chances of getting sick. Then the cooked water shop (boiled water shop) that only started to appear in the Song Dynasty was a good choice.

There are cooked water shops in Xiyang City, which provide the people in the city with cheap clean cooked water (boiled water) to prevent people from drinking raw water and causing illness.

This is a win-win convenience measure. After the government's vigorous publicity, the people of Xiyang began to be happy to drink cooked water to reduce the chance of getting sick, but some people are still unhappy. The other party felt that no matter how cheap the water sold in the cooked water shop was, they would never spend "injury money".

Most of these people are strong young men. They either have a shortage of money and want to save money, or think that boiling water or buying water at a cooked water shop is a sign of fear of death. They like to be heroic, but they just want to drink raw water.

What kind of water is personal freedom, and the government cannot control it, but it is related to public health and is a strong labor force. The government cannot stand idly by. In addition to strengthening publicity, Yuwen Wen feels that there may be a way to solve or alleviate it.

That is, with the help of low-alcohol alcoholic beverages, the price of wine is not low. If there is "beer" (ale), it will be different.

"Beer" can be drunk as water, because the alcohol contains alcohol, and added substances such as "hops" have certain sterilization and anticorrosion effects. Compared with ordinary cooked water, it is not easy to rot and can be used as a more hygienic source of public drinking water.

The beer halls that appeared in ancient European cities can be regarded as a relatively reliable source of clean drinking water for ordinary people. It was precisely because of this that Yu Wen Wen had the idea of ​​ale.

If you can brew ale similar to beer in a low price, a little alcohol smell will attract men with "excessive androgen" to drink it. As long as the price is not much higher than cooked water, it can ensure that the restaurant is very popular among men.

Whether it is the saying "drinking to strengthen heroic courage" or "drinking to strengthen cowards", it shows that wine has been a must-have for highlighting heroic spirit since ancient times. For ordinary people, those competitive men want to show themselves "powerful" in front of their companions or in certain scenarios, their alcohol tolerance can be comparable to the water level.

Or you can have a few friends, sit opposite each other in a restaurant, drink beer, chat with each other on a few dishes, and guess codes. It is also a good pastime, as long as the price is cheap.

Yuwen Wen felt that since there was a civilian pastime of "drinking beer and eating skewers" in that era, there should be a public pastime in this era.

Therefore, cooked water shops that sell cooked water at low prices and wine shops that sell "beer" (ale) at low prices are reliable sources of drinking water for urban residents, because it is profitable and can be maintained.

As for the problems caused by alcoholism and general's belly, the problems caused by this are nothing compared to public health issues.

Whether a bargain selling cheap beer can appear depends on whether it can brew be efficiently and in large quantities and low costs. Yu Wenwen bought the divine song from the wine seller he met. The brewing process is just a small episode in the process of achieving this goal.

In recent years, he has sent people to search everywhere and seek to buy winemaking techniques, and has gained success. The winemakers in Xiyang, Huangzhou have been trying new winemaking techniques. Good news keeps coming, but it will take a long time to turn it into real "good news".

After two glasses of wine, Yuwen Wen finished his feelings and ordered someone to seal the wine jar and move it away. As the commander of the entire army, he must not drink alcohol to make things happen. Just taste a familiar taste or two.

The drum sounded, and a moment later, the generals entered one after another. Yuwen Wen, who was a little drunk in his mouth, was afraid that everyone would misunderstand, so he declared in advance: "I just tried the wine and wanted to practice it for the heroes, so he spoke a little drunk, which would not hinder the matter."
Chapter completed!