They have been running the winery for so many years, so they must be very familiar with brewing.
The difficulty of brewing wine lies not in how to brew it, but in the grain.
The wine-making process is similar. It is not difficult, just time-consuming.
It’s different with grains. Different grains produce different kinds of wine.
The wine they brew is grain wine.
"Old village chief, does the village brew its own wine?" Zhang Weiguo asked.
"I used to make my own wine every year, but this year I don't have the grain to make wine."
"The wines nowadays are all from a few years ago, and I don't know how much is left."
"Old village chief, I want to buy some, fifty cents a pound, ask the villagers if they want to sell any."
"Fifty cents a pound, sure."
They brewed wine for their own consumption and could not sell it for any money, let alone at the high price of 50 cents per pound.
The loose liquor sold in stores is only two or three cents per pound.
The old village chief went back to the village to give notice.
The village chief went back to give notice, and Zhang Weiguo thought about buying a few large wine barrels.
Now the underground wine cellar is ready and can be used to store wine.
Zhang Weiguo planned to get a few barrels of tiger bone wine first.
We have tiger bones and ten-year-old ginseng.
It's just right for making wine.
Zhang Weiguo went back and bought a few wine barrels and a scale.
Today's scales are the kind that have a long pole and a weight.
There was no electronic scale like the ones in later generations.
When Zhang Weiguo returned to the winery, villagers were already waiting there with wine.
They still didn't believe that Zhang Weiguo would buy their wine at 50 cents per pound.
"It's real. 50 cents a pound. There's no limit on the quantity. I'll take as many as you have."
"I'll collect all these you brought first."
Zhang Weiguo found two villagers and asked them to weigh the weight.
The weighed wine is poured into a large barrel.
Wait until the first one is weighed, five pounds of wine.
Five kilograms of wine costs two dollars and fifty cents.
Zhang Weiguo gave the money on the spot.
Only after getting the money will others believe it is true.
The first person who gets the money goes back to report.
This is true, it really is 50 cents per pound.
He weighs three kilograms, he weighs five kilograms.
The villagers weighed their goods one by one, and Zhang Weiguo paid for them one by one.
The first villager who went back to report the news played a key role by taking out two yuan in cash.
What could be more convincing than this.
Others believed that this was true and were willing to sell alcohol.
They all went home to see how much wine they had left at home.
If you have less, you will regret why you didn’t leave more. If you have more, you will be happy because it is not left in vain.
It can still be sold at such a high price.
The villagers carry as little as three kilograms, and most carry only five kilograms.
The most he got was ten kilograms, and he took five dollars back directly.
Five dollars can provide food for two months.
After a busy afternoon, Zhang Weiguo collected a total of 150 kilograms of liquor.
A wine barrel can hold 100 kilograms of liquor.
Zhang Weiguo collected a barrel and a half of wine.
Move the wine barrel to the underground wine cellar, and put a piece of tiger bone and a ten-year-old ginseng in the barrel.
Zhang Weiguo sealed the lid.
After the lid was put on, it was wrapped with a layer of plastic cloth and then coated with a layer of yellow mud.
Seal this bucket tightly.
As for the half barrel of wine, don't seal it first.
Wait until it is full before sealing.
This is the first barrel of wine in this wine cellar. Zhang Weiguo wrote the sealing time on the barrel.
With this time, we can know the year in which the wine was sealed.
This was the first barrel of wine, and Zhang Weiguo wrote the word "one" on it.
This barrel of wine is very commemorative.
Write on it the origin of this wine and the fact that it is brewed by the villagers themselves.
No matter how many years pass, information about this barrel of wine will be recorded.
The road to the winery needs to be widened. It is too narrow now and large trucks cannot pass through it.
We are not in a hurry yet. We have to wait until the fire in the winery is put out. We are still increasing the height of the wall.
The cellar has been completed and the wine from the courtyard can be brought here.
Large trucks cannot go on this road, so we can't use them at all. We can only use motorcycles to transport the goods bucket by bucket.
This sidecar can just hold a wine barrel.
Zhang Weiguo carried the wine again and again.
After the second barrel arrived, Zhang Weiguo opened the lid and put tiger bones and ginseng inside.
Then it was sealed with yellow mud.
Zhang Weiguo suddenly thought, don’t I have space?
Why go through so much trouble of transporting it again and again?
Is this due to exhaustion?
Zhang Weiguo came to the courtyard, put a barrel of wine on the motorcycle, and put the rest of the wine into the space.
We arrived at the winery and moved the wine to the underground cellar.
Open all nine barrels of wine and add tiger bones and ginseng.
Then seal it with yellow mud.
Write the date and number on the barrel.
This started on the 3rd and went on till the 11th.
Also, write that this is Fenjiu.
There are now eleven barrels of wine sealed, which is far too little for this large cellar.
Zhang Weiguo decided to go to the countryside to collect supplies tomorrow.
Just collect the wine brewed by the villagers.
Let’s store a hundred barrels of wine first.
The tiger bones should have been used up in these one hundred barrels of wine.
Zhang Weiguo locked the door and said that the wine in here cannot be given to others.
This place won't let anyone in easily.
The construction of the house is still in progress. Several rooms were damaged so badly that they could not be repaired at all, so they were demolished directly.
Zhang Weiguo saw that these people were working very hard and thought about getting some meat for them to eat.
It is difficult to handle pork at this time, and you can't make too much.
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