Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 177 Quality

The wine yield and key quality indicators in workshop 1 showed a decline. Wen Qing immediately went to find Wang Jianguo. Tang Lin came over to call her, and Wen Qing took the notebook and went to workshop 3 in the new factory together.

The strong-flavor liquor workshop here is workshop two, the light-flavor liquor workshop is workshop three, and the fruit wine workshop is workshop four.

Although the strong-aroma liquor has just started to ferment, the light-aroma liquor has completed the fermentation of the first batch of liquor and is now steaming the liquor.

Wang Jianguo was here to give instructions first, and the two of them watched the workers install the equipment together.

The light-fragrance liquor adopts the clear-dregs method. The light-fragrance liquor of Changxia Distillery is mainly made of sorghum, supplemented by wheat and corn, and adopts the "clear to the end" brewing method.

Wen Qing discovered that the fire in the stove in workshop three was obviously bigger than that in workshop one, so the low wine yield in workshop one was indeed a problem of fire temperature.

Watching the workers put the mash into the sieve and put the lid on it, Wang Jianguo signaled the workers to lower the fire and start steaming the wine slowly when the temperature rose to 65 degrees.

After a while, wine dripped into the pottery jar from the tube. Wen Qing took a cup and measured it with an alcohol measuring agent, which showed it was over 80 degrees. This was the head of the wine. He took a small jar and Wang Jianguo changed to a large pottery jar and continued to collect wine.

Wen Qing took some wine and took it to the laboratory for testing, and the ethyl acetate content just met the standard.

Wen Qing returned to workshop three with the test results, and Wang Jianguo had already started to receive the tail end of the wine.

After collecting the tail of the wine, the worker poured the mash onto a bamboo plate. Wang Jianguo reached out and grabbed a handful, twisted it, and said, "This mash has a high starch content and can be used for secondary residue fermentation."

The worker nodded, pulled the mash to the drying platform, added koji and mixed it, then poured it into the ground tank for fermentation.

Wen Qing showed Wang Jianguo the results of the second test. The caproic acid content of the strong-flavor liquor was slightly lower, but the ketone content was up to standard.

She took the opportunity to tell Wang Jianguo about a problem that had occurred in a workshop and asked him to work with Jin Zicong to find the cause.

Wang Jianguo nodded, "I will adjust the temperature of the tank and fermentation to see if a longer fermentation time is better? On the other hand, I told Master Wang to pay attention when blending this batch of wine and add appropriate amounts."

Wen Qing took a small glass of wine and tasted it. Although it was spicy at first, the sweet flavor was still very obvious.

Let Tang Lin and Wang Jianguo continue to steam the wine, and Wen Qing went to the wine cellar in the backyard.

Now, there are two wine cellars in the factory. The wine cellar in the new factory area only stores the newly brewed light-fragrance liquor, and the previously brewed liquor is stored in the wine cellar in the first workshop.

Wen Qing collected a batch of raw liquor stored in the space, and then put the raw liquor in the space back to its original place.

After inspecting the area and finding no omissions, we returned to the new factory and took Wang Jianguo with us to see the maintenance of the new wine cellar.

There are 1000 wine cellars in the new factory area, and the maintenance pressure is very high. The maintenance of the first batch of 31 wine cellars has begun, and the maintenance of wine cellars No. 100 to is now being started.

Wang Jianguo said: "The first 70 wine cellars were just a trial. Now it seems that there is no problem. Next we will cultivate wine cellars at a time."

"Do you have the cellar mud?"

"We bought 4 tons last time. Now we have used up all the leftover flour and yellow wine, but it is still not enough. We need to buy more."

"Where are you going to buy it?"

"I want to go to Sichuan Province again."

"Okay, go to Yicheng and buy some old wine to make base wine."

If the winery wants to increase its output, it must have base wine with a longer age for seasoning. The wine in their winery is not old enough, and the wine they blend lacks some flavor.

Wen Qing wants to buy some famous liquors for seasoning. In the past, when they bought famous liquors, since they were still planning to blend them, they didn’t have quotas and others didn’t sell them. Now that market controls have been relaxed, they should be able to buy them.

Wang Jianguo took Tang Lin and a worker named Hu Li with him. The house was managed by Wen Qing herself. She had been studying winemaking techniques and had good skills.

After Wang Jianguo left, Wen Qing began to work hard to solve the food shortage problem.

She went to the Majiaxiang Grain Company and held a meeting with Zou Jie, Li Zhonghua and Shen Lin. They decided that the focus of their work was to purchase large quantities of sorghum. Although the three had different divisions of labor, Wen Qing asked them all to use their connections to buy grain.

Wen Qing said, "Zhonghua will go to Captain Liu and Secretary Ma to contact our commune's unplanned grain, and also contact the farms in Heilongjiang Province, where the grain production is large; Zou Jie will be responsible for contacting Shandong Province and Jizhong; Shen Lin will contact the Agricultural College in Pingjing to learn about new varieties of sorghum and corn; after the feed factory is built, we will not only buy grain but also soybean meal and rapeseed meal as raw materials. You can also pay more attention to where you can buy them?"

After the meeting, she rented a warehouse near the train station and put the grain harvested in the space into it.

This season she planted some new varieties and harvested a total of more than 30 kilograms of grain, which can last for about two months.

Back in Huashuijing Lane, Wen Qing cleaned up the fallen leaves in the yard and entered the space.

The land in the space had just been harvested. Looking around, the fields were bare. She drove a tiller to plow the soil, dug up the straw and grass roots in the fields, dried them and burned them into ash as fertilizer. Then she sowed the rice seeds she had selected in the paddy fields to cultivate rice seedlings.

She was busy until the evening, and she did not return to Erxia Village, but stayed in Huashuijing Lane.

Huashuijingxiang’s home had everything. After dinner, she returned to her study and continued designing the electric bicycle.

The body and appearance of the electric bicycle have been designed, and now she is designing the battery, motor and battery charger.

The battery is based on the automobile battery, with a smaller volume, increased battery fluid concentration, optimized diaphragm and electrode materials, but maintaining the battery capacity and discharge time.

Wen Qing felt that she was particularly inspired today, and she didn't stop writing until the late night and went to bed.

During the ten days that Wang Jianguo was in Sichuan, Wen Qing went to the winery during the day to direct and participate in the winemaking. At night, she went to the space to farm and do design. At noon, she had a simple meal in the winery cafeteria. When Wang Jianguo returned to Erxia Village with the cellar mud and base wine, he found that she had lost a lot of weight. Wang Jianguo smiled and said, "Sister Wen, are you losing weight?"

Wen Qing also laughed and said, "What weight loss? Do I still need to lose weight?"

Wang Jianguo reported to Wen Qing about his gains from this trip. It was very smooth. He bought ten tons of cellar mud in Yicheng and the other party delivered it directly to him.

In addition, I bought 3 tons of bulk famous liquor and 2 tons of packaged famous liquor, and rented a truck to transport them back.

Wen Qing went to see the wine he bought. It was packaged in plain bottles without any heavy paper boxes. Wen Qing asked him to put the wine into the underground wine cellar for proper preservation. All the wine would appreciate in value in twenty years.

Wang Jianguo came back, and Wen Qing planned to go to Shanxi Province. After explaining the situation in the factory to Wang Jianguo, she bought a train ticket to Taiping City and set off with simple luggage.

It is only a four-hour drive from Pingjing to Taiping. She first went to the provincial grain company. Now the proportion of sorghum and corn as staple foods has dropped significantly. The grain company has sufficient inventory, and the new grain will be delivered soon. The grain company is eager to deal with the inventory, so Wen Qing easily negotiated a contract for 500 tons of sorghum and 300 tons of corn per year, but the price was ten percent higher than the allocation price.

Wen Qing didn't care too much. This was the reality now. Without the planned indicators, it was impossible to buy affordable grain. If she wanted to buy the indicators, she would have to find connections and spend money to do favors. In the end, she wouldn't save much money. It was better to let the grain company make the money.

Seeing that she bought a lot, the grain company agreed to deliver the goods to her home, saving her some money.

After finishing his business, Wen Qing went to look for a hotel. Taiyuan has been an important city in the north since ancient times. It was also the birthplace of the Tang Dynasty and has left behind many historical sites and legends.