When used correctly, it can play an important role in medical, beverage, catering, textile, agriculture and other industries.
However, if you are addicted to the pleasure brought by alcohol, it will not only harm your body, but also make you crazy, do many regrettable things, and even lead to death.
Of course, for Jiang Xuan, the emergence of wine definitely has more advantages than disadvantages, because it can play so many roles in primitive tribes.
If he's lucky, he can even make vinegar from the semi-finished wine grains, adding a delicious condiment to the tribe.
"How did these round potatoes end up like this?"
Jiang Xuan took the jar and found that the round potatoes inside were obviously cooked and piled up close to each other. After fermentation, some wine pulp was produced.
Nepeta said sheepishly: "I cooked these round potatoes and brought them on board to eat on the way. Unexpectedly, there were some tribes doing business with us along the way, so we basically didn't have to worry about food.
A can of round potatoes was left in the cabin and forgotten."
"This afternoon I went to the cabin to look for something, and suddenly I saw this clay pot, and then I remembered that there was a can of round potatoes in it."
"I originally thought that the round potatoes inside must be moldy and smelly, but I didn't expect that when I opened the lid, I found that these round potatoes had a strange aroma, so I brought them to the leader to have a look. I didn't know if they could still be eaten.
Not poisonous."
Jiang Xuan suddenly realized: "So that's it. After your can of round potatoes was boiled, it was kept in a cool cabin to ferment. By chance, not only did it not break, but it also fermented into wine."
Jiang Xuan remembered that when he was a child, his family raised pigs and would occasionally cook a lot of sweet potatoes. If he couldn't finish them in a day or two, the cooked sweet potatoes would go rancid and smelly, and the other would smell bad after fermentation.
The aroma of wine comes out.
This round potato is somewhat similar to a sweet potato. The sugar content may even be higher, and it tastes particularly sweet, so it is not surprising that it can be fermented into wine in a relatively airtight clay pot.
Of course, the food of the tribesmen was never enough, and food wastage rarely occurred. Therefore, for so many years, only the can of Nepeta, a can of round potatoes that had been left in the cabin and forgotten to be eaten, had been successfully fermented.
This incident also reminded Jiang Xuan that since the Vine Tribe has solved the food shortage problem through large-scale planting and breeding, can it be possible to try brewing drinks and condiments such as wine, vinegar, and soy sauce?
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At this moment, Jingjie couldn't help but interrupt Jiang Xuan's thinking: "Chief, what is wine? Can it be eaten?"
Jiang Xuan smiled and said, "Don't you know it once you taste it?"
Later, Jiang Xuan took out two pottery bowls and poured some of the wine slurry fermented from round potatoes in the jar into each of the two pottery bowls.
Nepeta impatiently picked up a pottery bowl and took a tentative sip.
This sip made his eyes light up. After noticing that there was nothing strange about his body, he drank all the wine in the bowl.
"Chief, it tastes delicious, sour and sweet."
Jiang Xuan also picked up the pottery bowl and took a sip. It tasted really good. It was a bit like the rice wine he drank in his previous life. It was very sweet.
It seems that the fermentation of the round potato wine in this clay pot was relatively successful, and it can be regarded as a good wine fermented under natural conditions.
After drinking a bowl of Nepeta, he wanted to pour it out, but Jiang Xuan held down the pot to stop him.
"Don't drink too much wine. Drinking too much will cause bad things. Remember this sentence."
Nepeta immediately retracted her hand and put down the bowl.
Jiang Xuan thought for a while and then said: "Also, this kind of naturally fermented wine has more fusel alcohol. Drinking it directly may be poisonous. Later, put it in the fire pond, add some ginger and boil it before drinking."
"Chief, I remember."
Seeing that Jiang Xuan was serious, Jing Jie nodded solemnly and took Jiang Xuan's words to heart.
Jiang Xuan added: "This can of round potato wine will stay with me. I will try to see if I can use it to brew more wine, so that my tribe can have a try in the future."
Although Nepeta was a little reluctant to give up, she had no choice but to agree in order to drink more wine in the future.
Of course, there was nothing he could do if he disagreed, because Jiang Xuan was the leader, and if he insisted, few people in the Teng tribe would dare to refuse.
Nepeta said pitifully: "Chief, if you brew wine in the future, you can share a jar with me."
Jiang Xuan smiled and said: "Don't worry, I can't do without you."
After hearing Jiang Xuan's affirmative answer, Jing Jie left with satisfaction.
At this time, the night was deep. Jiang Xuan sealed the clay pot and placed it in a cool and dry corner. Then he washed the pots and pans and went to bed.
Early the next morning, Jiang Xuan cooked half a pod of round potatoes in a clean large pottery pot. After leaving it to cool, he found a clean large pottery pot and scalded it carefully with boiling water to prevent any bacteria from getting inside.
Afterwards, he washed his hands, crushed the cooled round potatoes, put them into a large clay pot, spread them on a layer, evenly spread the fermented round potato distiller's grains on top, and poured some of the wine pulp.
In this way, he spread a layer of crushed round potatoes, smeared some wine grains and liquor pulp, and did not stop until the large clay pot was two-thirds full.
Then, he moved the big clay pot to a cool place, found a clean spider silk cloth and a pile of sand, boiled them all in boiling water, and then wrapped the sand in the spider silk cloth to replace the lid of the clay pot and seal it.
Live on the rim of a large clay pot.
The reason why he did this was because when he was a child, he saw his family making wine with his own eyes. Although he didn't understand the principle, it was better to follow the gourd's drawing than to figure it out on his own.
After doing this, Jiang Xuan went to do other things and left the rest of the transformation process to time.
After a few days, the large clay pot gradually began to emit a faint aroma of wine.
On the seventh day, Jiang Xuan opened the pot and took a look. He saw that the crushed round potatoes were fermenting normally and there was no rot or mold on the surface, so he resealed the lid with satisfaction.
It was already the beginning of October in the ninth year of the Vine Tribe. The northern part of the Southern Wilderness had already begun to feel chilly, but the central part of the country had crisp autumn air, neither cold nor hot. It was a good time for wine making and also the harvest season.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In the wastelands opened by the Vine Tribe in the early stage, the food crops of the large tribes have matured, and the warriors of the tribe are working hard to harvest these food crops and put them in time.
Take it back to the territory to dry, and then put it into the newly built granary for storage.
It is worth mentioning that, thanks to the efforts of the smelting workshop, a group of people in the new territory of the Vine Tribe have replaced bronze sickles, hoes and other tools with iron ones.
These new iron tools have good durability and are not easy to chip or break, greatly improving the work efficiency of the Vine Tribe warriors.
After half a month of such busy work, the work in the fields was finally finished, and a new batch of iron ore transported from the Bamboo Rat Tribe also arrived. Everything in the territory was proceeding in an orderly manner.
On October 20th, Jiang Xuan opened the lid of the big clay pot again, and a strong aroma of wine suddenly hit his nostrils.
"It looks like it was a success!"
Jiang Xuan was so happy that he immediately found a clean spoon and a bowl. He first used the spoon to push aside the round potato wine lees floating above the clay pot, and then scooped out half a bowl of fermented wine pulp.
Because the round potato wine pulp is not filtered, it looks turbid, but the aroma is extremely rich.
Jiang Xuan took a sip and found that it tasted better than the can of round potato wine that Jie Jie had accidentally obtained before, and he felt happy immediately.
“With this vat of round potato wine, we can try more and brew more wine in the future.”
Jiang Xuan plans to try using red crystal rice next time. Logically speaking, the wine brewed from red crystal rice should taste better. I hope it will succeed.
That night, Jiang Xuan called Nepeta over and gave him a small jar of newly brewed round potato wine, which was regarded as fulfilling his promise.
Nepeta followed the method mentioned by Jiang Xuan and boiled the round potato wine on the fire pit before drinking it. The taste was indeed excellent, and when paired with cooked animal meat, it was extremely enjoyable to eat.
From then on, Nepeta had a new hobby: drinking.
Of course, wine is still a scarce product in the Vine tribe. Even people with the status of Jiang Xuan and Jing Jie can only taste a small bowl occasionally, and there is basically no chance of getting drunk and causing trouble.