Jiao Yucheng's face suddenly turned ugly.

If it is true as Dou Hongyi said, what he built was not a watermelon winery, but a winery.

The winery didn't make any sense.

He asked, "I asked you to redesign the winemaking plan. Did you get any results?"

This time it was Ding Qian who spoke: "Yes!

We made a total of 300 sets of plans, comparing 21 indicators including watermelon varieties, dosage, sugar content, light, water holding capacity, dissolved oxygen content, fermentation time, etc.

The results showed that the watermelon wine from the 112th experiment had the best taste.

After saying that, she opened an aluminum cabinet.

The inside was filled with test tubes, and the various labels made Fu Song dizzy.

Jiao Yucheng walked over, found the 112th experiment, picked up the data, examined it carefully, and threw it to the ground: "Redo all the experiments."

Dou Hongyi's expression froze instantly, and he spread his hands and said, "Teacher, I know you are not satisfied with the result, and I am not satisfied either.

But these experiments were completed by Ding Qian and I after working all night.

We've tried everything we can think of, and the only thing that's proven to be true is that watermelon is not suitable for making wine.

At the very least, wine made from watermelon is inherently inferior to wine.

At the same cost, watermelon wine will never outsell wine.”

Ding Qian also said: "Yes, teacher, if it is really possible to make good wine with watermelon, someone would have figured it out long ago, and it would not have waited until now.

There’s only one best way to eat watermelon.”

Jiao Yucheng's expression was uncertain. How could he not know the result?

He just couldn't bear to think about the watermelons that were about to rot in the farmers' fields.

Suddenly, Fu Song spoke up: "You said watermelon is not suitable for making wine, there must be a reason, right?"

“It’s simple, because watermelon tastes worse after oxidation, and winemaking requires yeast.

Although koji does not need oxygen to break down sugars into alcohol, its own growth and reproduction cannot be separated from oxygen.

So no matter what we do, the end result is failure. ” cascoo.net

Fu Song: "What if watermelon isn't used in the winemaking process?"

"No watermelon?" Dou Hongyi was a little dumbfounded. "The teacher asked for watermelon wine, how can we not use watermelon?"

Fu Song smiled and said, "It's very simple. Didn't you say that the best tasting watermelon wine is 'grape-watermelon' wine?

Then just use grapes to make wine, completely remove the oxygen, and then blend it with watermelon juice.

Don't tell me you don't know how to blend wine."

In the eyes of many people, the mere mention of blended liquor is abhorrent.

Because in their eyes, blended wine is fake wine.

In fact, "fake wine" usually refers to wine that contains a certain amount of methanol.

Methanol is poisonous. Once the content exceeds the standard, it can cause hearing loss and blindness at the very least, or death at the worst.

As for where methanol comes from...

It's very simple. Methanol is produced during the process of grain fermentation and winemaking.

Regular wineries will use distillation to extract all the methanol, ethanol and biofat, and then remove the methanol.

The resulting ethanol is then added to the distilled and separated "base wine" and flavored with bio-fat.

This is what is often called blending.

Simply put, it is a process of separating the "active ingredients" and "base wine" in the brewed original wine and then merging them.

The main purpose of adding this step is not to remove methanol.

Rather, it is because the wine tastes very differently during the fermentation process due to different fermentation conditions.

Unified distillation and blending are to minimize this difference as much as possible and use artificial methods to optimize the taste.

Removing methanol is just a side job.

In order to save costs, many small workshops skip the blending process, resulting in a higher methanol content in the produced wine.

Once consumed in large quantities, it can easily cause discomfort.

This is what people call drinking "fake wine".

This is indeed a kind of fake wine, but its toxicity is relatively mild and you can basically get through it as long as you don't drink it in large quantities.

The most terrifying thing is the fake wine that is directly blended with industrial alcohol. This can no longer be called fake wine, but poisonous wine.

Because drinking this kind of wine, as long as you are over 60

mL, which is half a cup of the plastic cup used in restaurants, makes people feel cold.

Dou Hongyi naturally knew about blending wine, and he was even more aware of the twists and turns in the wine.

He fell into thought.

Because Dou Hongyi suddenly discovered that Fu Song's suggestion provided him with a new idea.

Making watermelon wine without watermelon...

And it seems to actually work.

Because all the watermelon processing steps need to be carried out in an oxygen-free environment.

Dou Hongyi started to redesign the experimental plan as soon as he thought of it.

Fu Song looked at him and suddenly said, "Do an experiment to make watermelon juice with watermelon and watermelon rind, and then blend it."

Dou Hongyi was stunned: "Why?"

Fu Song smiled slightly: "Just give it a try, maybe there will be a miracle."

Dou Hongyi nodded, but he didn't care.

As a graduate student majoring in fruit wine brewing, he has his own confidence.

In his opinion, Fu Song's suggestion was completely fantastical.

When making wine, one naturally has to remove the most essential parts of the fruits and vegetables.

Put two pieces of watermelon rind in it, is this a joke?

The winery that my teacher wants to open is a regular high-end winery, not a small workshop.

But he knew Fu Song's identity, so he didn't refute it. It was just something he did casually.

Dou Hongyi worked quickly. He and Ding Qian divided the work and quickly completed fifty sets of experiments.

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