Chapter 156 Green Plum Sparkling Wine
Before going home, Aunt Wolf also volunteered to help Jiangyou find out the background of the new employee. In this way, Jiangyou could get information from both official and private channels and compare and verify the statements twice.
Over the past few days, the brewery has become the most popular and novel shop in West Eston, and Jiangyou has to be on guard against narrow-minded and jealous people who might try to stir up trouble. No matter what industry or profession, there are always those who seek to harm others and benefit themselves, and who are jealous of others' well-being.
As the saying goes, "You should not have the intention to harm others, but you must be on guard against others." Although this round-faced girl looks clear-headed and efficient, Jiangyou still plans to listen to his ancestors and investigate the person thoroughly during this one-month internship to avoid causing trouble and regretting it later.
"By the way," Takumiu poked his head out of the kitchen, "Are you done with your patrol? Do you want to try some of my newly developed green plum sparkling wine?"
"Well, try it." Andre sat down at the bar, while Jericho helped Jiangyou put away the dried dishes. He slipped out of the kitchen and whispered to his young master about the meeting between Winston and Vivian at noon.
"Really? They ran into each other." Andrei stroked his chin with interest. "That's interesting."
As he spoke, the skeleton came out of the kitchen carrying two glasses of wine. He placed one in front of Andrei and pushed the other to Jericho. "Come, try my new special green plum sparkling wine. I used fresh plum sauce, wind magic sparkling powder, and a little distilled white wine. Don't worry, I adjusted the proportions, so the alcohol content won't be too high."
"If it tastes good, this thing can be put on our permanent menu!"
"Wind magic foaming powder...is it the kind developed by alchemists for frying fish?" Andre asked with a blink.
"BingBong~" Takumi made a hook with his thumb and index finger. "That's it! I found that this thing doesn't need to be heated. Just shake it and bump it hard to release wind magic bubbles. If you add water to this thing, it becomes sparkling water. If you add wine to it, it becomes sparkling wine~"
Wind Magic Foaming Powder is the scientific name for baking powder in this world. This powder is colorless and odorless, consisting simply of solidified wind element. Ingesting it directly will not cause any side effects, other than a burp at most, making it a fairly safe food additive.
Jiangyou's recent experience selling Fruity Witch Beer further confirmed her hypothesis: people enjoy the bubbles in beer, but not necessarily the bitterness, or even the alcohol itself. Huntington residents generally prefer sweets, and modern low-alcohol sparkling cocktails, even non-alcoholic sparkling water, are more appealing to them than beer.
Andrei studied the wine glass before him. Inside the cylindrical glass was a strange liquid: ice cubes mixed in with the wine. The bottom layer was amber in color, and the color gradually became lighter as it went up. There were many bubbles in the liquid, and if you got close, you could even hear the sizzling sound of bubbles. For some reason, a hollow straw was inserted diagonally into the glass...
It looks a bit strange, but not overwhelming.
Andrei cast several identification spells, confirming the wine was non-toxic, harmless, and without side effects. He prepared to drink it, but just as he reached for the cup, Jiangyou stopped him. The lich pointed to the straw in the cup and said, "Stir it with it, then take a sip through it."
Andre did as he was told, puzzled.
After stirring, the distinct layers of wine turned into a light translucent amber color. Andre held the straw and took a sip. Suddenly, a cool and sweet breath rushed to his forehead. The bubbles burst in his mouth one after another, dancing wildly on the tip of his tongue, bringing a wonderful tingling sensation.
This kind of bubbles rich in wind magic are obviously more powerful than beer, and the taste of alcohol is also very strong, a sweet and spicy one, completely different from beer, but not as fruity as brewed plum wine. It tastes very smooth and has a wonderful grain aroma.
"What kind of wine is this made of?" Andre shook the glass curiously.
"Hehe~ It's this thing~!" Jiangyou took out something similar to a wheat ear from the kitchen, but unlike wheat ears and rice ears, the ear was full of small, round, red fruits, which were densely packed together, making people feel like they had claustrophobia.
Andre looked at it carefully for a while and recognized it: "Is this... Sogen grass?"
Jiang You nodded: "In my hometown, this thing is called sorghum. It is very similar to wheat and is also a grain crop."
"Yes, but it tastes terrible," Andrei said. "It's very astringent and rough. Even if it's ground into flour, it's like a pile of loose sand and can't be made into bread. But the good thing is that it's easy to grow. It grows anywhere. We use it to feed our livestock here."
"That's right, but it's great for making wine!" Jiangyou laughed even more happily. "I was talking to the delivery guy from Uncle Wolf about feed before, and I heard about this sorghum. I thought it looked a lot like the sorghum we have here, so I bought some from Holly. I didn't expect it to be this!"
In ancient times, grain cultivation was relatively low. Although sorghum was unpalatable, it was easier to grow than wheat and rice, and people relied on it to survive numerous famines. However, once living conditions improved, this unpalatable food became a mere trifle, something neither edible nor worth throwing away. Therefore, in an era when wheat and rice were scarce, making wine from sorghum became the best option, a form of waste recycling.
What people didn't anticipate was that sorghum's relatively simple nutritional profile, with a very low pectin content, produced very little methanol during fermentation. However, its high concentration of tannins adds a unique flavor to baijiu. These characteristics, originally disadvantages of sorghum as a staple food, became its advantages for winemaking. By accident, sorghum became one of the primary ingredients in baijiu (white spirit) brewing.
Jiang You had spent the past few evenings brewing wine using the Crucible of Time. Not only had she used millet to brew yellow wine for cooking, she had also used the Crucible of Time to make aged wine, and now she had even used the newly discovered sorghum to brew white wine.
Relying on magic such as [Poison Detection Technique] and repeated experiments, Jiang You has now mastered the key to completely removing the alcohol in the wine. The white wine she brews now is not only safe to drink, but also not easy to get drunk.
Now she has rice wine and aged wine to use when cooking, and even white wine as the base for sparkling wine... The best part is that the ingredients for making wine are very cheap and easy to get!
Jiangyou's semi-magical brewing process cannot produce sauce-flavored or strong-flavored liquors like Moutai and Wuliangye. The liquor she distills does not have the strong bitterness of beer, but is closer to the light-flavored type, with a light taste, which is very suitable for making cocktails.
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