Chapter 61 Whiskey (Please read! Please recommend!)

Chapter 61 Whiskey It has been a while since Bruno came to this world, and he suddenly discovered a very serious problem.

There wasn't even a maid by my side! I looked around and saw that there were a group of men surrounding me.

From Sabbi to L'Hôpital, and from L'Hôpital to Liszt, Bruno has changed three personal male servants, but he does not even have a personal female servant.

I was a single dog in my previous life, I can't always be the same in this life...

The few women in the lord's castle were mostly concentrated in the kitchen. Each of them had elephant legs, bucket waists, and even giant arms! They were definitely good at slaughtering pigs and cattle, but if they were dragged over to be personal maids, they would always be a little lacking.

Bruno also wanted to have a shameless aristocratic life! This was the only bad thing about border nobles. They were not like the wealthy areas in the western part of the empire, where the castles of noble lords were densely packed next to each other, and even the banquets of noble ladies were held one after another from morning to night.

However, if everything could be done over again and Bruno could make his own choice, he would probably still choose Idar.

After all, Idar is as clean as a blank piece of paper, on which one can paint as much as one wants.

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It is a wonderful thing to sleep until you wake up naturally every day. Look, when I got up, it was already eight or nine o'clock.

"It's all your fault, Liszt. You didn't wake me up earlier. Do you know how precious the morning time is?" As usual, Bruno put all the blame for sleeping in on Liszt.

"Master...but you told me that getting up late will ruin the morning, and getting up early will make you stupid all day..." Liszt pouted and said aggrievedly.

"Asshole, you dare to talk back to me? I'll deduct a penny from you!" Bruno raised his leg and kicked lightly with his toes.

After saying that, Bruno picked up his toothbrush and prepared to go to the castle courtyard to wash up.

Bruno had just asked the carpenter to make the toothbrush a few days ago. It was made of pig bristles, which were of moderate hardness and softness, and were connected to a bone handle, which was perfect for brushing teeth.

Instead of toothpaste, use freshly ground mint powder, which freshens breath and has a good effect.

The servants in the lord's castle were already accustomed to the Earl's novel behavior.

People of this era have not yet developed the awareness of brushing their teeth. When they open their mouths to speak, they always show their big yellow teeth, and an unpleasant smell comes out of their mouths from time to time while they speak.

Therefore, in order to protect their fragile sense of smell, at Bruno's strong request, Old Ford, Shabi, Lister and other people who often accompanied Bruno and communicated with him began to develop the habit of brushing their teeth every day.

It has been more than half a month since the war ended, and serfs and civilians are busy with spring ploughing.

It can be said that Bruno is the only one in the entire Idar territory who does nothing all day and wanders around.

After so many days of preparation, the utensils for making distilled liquor have basically been completed.

When Bruno received the news, he, accompanied by Liszt and others, rushed to the newly built distillery workshop next to the lord's castle.

Nowadays, the world's brewing technology is still in its infancy. There are only two common types of wine. One is fruit wine such as wine, and the other is ale, which generally refers to beer.

The former mostly appeared at banquets and dinners of nobles, while the latter were mostly concentrated in small taverns in the streets and alleys.

But these two have one thing in common, that is, the degrees are generally very low, most of them are only around six or seven degrees.

As for what Bruno wanted to brew, it was a highly distilled liquor with an alcohol content of over 40 or 50 degrees.

Only in this way can Idar Territory quickly occupy the blank strong liquor market.

The only thing he was worried about was whether the nobles in this world would accept the highly distilled liquor! Although he had the experience from his previous life as a foundation, to be honest, Bruno was still a little nervous.

Since there was no large-scale planting of sorghum in Idar Territory, or the Norman Empire, Bruno's original plan to brew liquor had to fail.

but!

But he can make brandy and whiskey!

The general definition of brandy is a wine made from grapes (fruits), which is fermented, distilled, matured in barrels and blended.

Simply put, it has an additional distillation step compared to today's wine.

Whiskey is a highly distilled liquor made from barley as the main raw material.

The starch content of barley is basically the same as that of sorghum, and the wine yield is very high.

Bruno attached great importance to the first brewing of whiskey. In order to control costs and open up the market, he decided to avoid brandy and directly brew whiskey with barley.

In the past, Westerners called whiskey "water of life", which shows how popular it is.

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Moreover, whiskey can be brewed not only with barley, but also with other grains such as corn and oats.

In addition, with the continuous development of whiskey, people in the last life gradually began to use the blending method to brew whiskey, and due to the different raw materials and brewing methods, it can be divided into five categories: malt whiskey, grain whiskey, five-grain whiskey, rye whiskey and blended whiskey.

For the current Idar territory, brewing whiskey with barley is undoubtedly the best choice.

Before brewing whiskey, the barley needs to be soaked in water to make it germinate, and then the soaked barley is transferred to a special germination room and spread out so that it germinates evenly.

Bruno had already given instructions for this first step when he instructed the craftsmen to make the utensils, and after a few days of waiting, the earliest batch of barley had sprouted.

After germination, the barley must be dried in order to retain the various amylases needed for saccharification.

The next step is to grind the whiskey and add water to the ground raw materials to make a paste for saccharification. This process requires the temperature to be maintained at around 60~65 degrees, which has a great impact on the taste of the whiskey.

After that, fermentation will take place, and it only takes three to five days to form raw liquor with a concentration of about seven degrees.

The resulting raw liquor is then distilled. Since the boiling point of alcohol is lower than that of water, the alcohol will vaporize before water and then condense to form a liquid.

After repeating the above distillation steps three or four times, you can get distilled liquor with an alcohol content of about 60 to 70 degrees.

Orthodox whiskey also needs to be put into oak barrels for aging. This can absorb and remove impurities in the wine, give the wine color and flavor, and allow the compounds in the wine to continue to undergo oxidation reactions through a long period of micro-oxygen environment.

But in Bruno's opinion, the time for the last step can be shortened.

After all, for the natives of this world, even distilled liquor is new to them, so they are not that picky about the taste, as long as it tastes good! …

Thanks to "该妮名无" for the reward! Muah~ I have set up a Penguin Book Club, everyone can come and chat~ Group number: 814661620 　Here it comes, although the number of words is not large, but it is really troublesome to find information. I originally wanted to use sorghum, but I didn't find any records about sorghum in the Middle Ages...

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