Chapter 82 Rum
"Master, the kind of rum you mentioned has been brewed. Do you want to taste it?" Chris walked over and said with a bottle of wine.
Last time Gene came back from Carter City, he bought a batch of slaves, including a few who could make wine. Some of the waste honey left after crushing sugar in the territory. Due to technology, these waste honey containing a lot of sugar cannot be extracted from white sugar.
It is a waste to throw it directly, so Sulun is like using this waste honey to brew rum. The rum in his previous life was born because of waste honey. At that time, sugarcane was planted on a large scale, and sugarcane would also produce a large amount of waste honey after it was squeezed into sugar.
Those planters invented the use of waste honey to make rum. At that time, due to technological problems, fresh water carried by wandering on the sea for a long time is prone to deterioration. The most important thing is that rum can treat sepsis. Therefore, many ships carry a large amount of alcohol, which can be preserved and deteriorated for a long time, and can prevent sailors from sepsis.
As a result, rum spread all over the world with the great voyage, brewing waste honey into rum has also become another source of income for these planters.
It is very good to use waste honey to make wine. You can get a lot of wine without consuming food. This is good news for Sulun, who is short of food. There are very few ways of entertainment in this era. Even in Karen City in the south, entertainment among the nobles is apart from hunting and banquets.
There are few performances like bards or circuses, and even fewer entertainment methods for civilians. The most common one is to go to a tavern to have a drink. There are many barbarians here, each of whom is strong and energetic. In order to let them vent their excess energy, Sulun specially built a schoolyard for them to compete.
The same is true for preparing alcohol now, and there is another reason. The trade in the territory has begun. As time goes by, more and more caravans will definitely bring a large number of mercenaries and caravan guards. These people must find entertainment places.
There are no seafood merchants in Sulun's territory, and there are no young ladies selling abalones. There is a long way to go for spiritual civilization construction. Therefore, people like mercenaries and guards have no low rewards and are also quick to spend. As long as the pub is established, it will definitely become an important income-generating project for the camp.
This kind of solution to the problem of waste honey, adds entertainment methods, and makes money, and kills three birds with one stone. What reason is there to not do it?
After taking the rum, Sulun sniffed it first, and there was a faint aroma of wine. He poured out the wine. The rum wine showed an amber color. Suri tasted it slightly and tasted pretty good. The taste was refreshing and fragrant, which was much better than the ale he had drunk before.
The ale that Sulun bought before were all low-priced and was a little sour and astringent. The merchants added a lot of water to it. This ale is also the most popular in the pub. Who made it cheap enough? It only takes two copper nals to drink a glass.
It can be said that the ale actually carries a little alcoholic water, which is far worse than these rums.
"The wine tastes pretty good." Su Lun said in a good mood by putting down the cup.
"This rum is the best taste they make." Chris picked up Sullen's unfinished glass and tasted it.
"What is the cost?" Su Lun asked. If the cost of this wine is too high, he can only sell it as high-end wine and continue to brew cheap wine.
"As you told, rum is brewed with waste honey, which is added with a lot of water for dilution, and then yeast is added to fermentation. The cost of a barrel of 100 liters is about two ginals." Kris said as he knew it.
Sulun quickly calculated that this price still has no price advantage compared to ale.
"Master, these rums can be diluted with water, and the ones you drink are not diluted." Chris explained with a smile. "This wine can be twice diluted, and the taste will be much lighter than ale."
"Then double the dilution, you can calculate the price." Su Lun agreed directly. Adding water into the wine is a normal operation in this era, and of course high-end wine will not do this.
"Make this rum into low-end wine and high-end wine, change the high-end wine to a better name, and then mix the taste, and we sell the two wines together." Sulun said.
"Okay, I'll go and tell them to do it now." Chris nodded.
"By the way, add thirty points to each of the slaves who made the wine, and give him fifty points to those who made this wine." Sulun ordered.
"Let them prepare the drinks as soon as possible."
Chris nodded and left with rum.
Next, the wine-making slaves quickly prepared two kinds of wines according to Sulun's requirements. The high-end rum wine was clearer and closer to transparent state. It smelled with a unique fruity aroma, with a refreshing and sweet taste, a sweet taste, and a very good fragrance.
The low-end rum tastes much worse, but it tastes refreshing, with a translucent reddish brown color. From the taste to the taste, it is still much better than ale. The cost is also controlled to ten silver nals per barrel, which is close to the price of ale.
High-end rums are expensive. After mixing, this rum costs two ginals per barrel. Sulun is planning to build a glass factory in the territory and then bottle it for sale. Not a bottle is sold, two ginals per barrel can hold at least two hundred bottles.
Su Lun also gave this wine a name, Hanlu Wine, and then made up another story to increase the value of this wine. This was a common marketing method in his previous life, but it was definitely the first time he had used it in this world.
As long as the story is touching enough and the wine tastes good, this kind of wine will soon open up sales. Of course, if Sulun has enough connections to let the king use this kind of wine at a palace banquet, the effect will be better. But if he has connections, will he run to this place where birds do not shit and open up the land?
After the wine was prepared, Sulun immediately began to build a pub in the town. The location of the pub had been selected long ago and construction could be started directly. The pub was progressing very quickly. In just two days, a pub that could accommodate seventy or eighty people was completed.
[Pub: Town buildings, lively taverns can relax people who have been working for a day and drink a glass of wine. The appearance of the tavern makes the town more prosperous. The existence of the tavern will attract some people who like wine, prosperity +5, pleasure +5, information +5, security -2, special effects: There is a chance to attract heroes who come to wander around to stay here.]
Chapter completed!