Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 367 Making Rice Wine 2

After everything was done, Xu Han covered the small jar with a piece of gauze and then covered it with a quilt.

Although the temperature is still very high now, it will become very cool at night. The temperature difference between day and night is quite large. It will be difficult to ferment if you don’t cover it with a quilt.

The temperature is high now, and it will take about three or four days to ferment. The rice wine fermented for the first time is sweet and the alcohol concentration is not very high.

If you want the wine to be stronger, you can do a secondary fermentation. The rice wine produced by the secondary fermentation will be spicier and stronger.

Fully fermented rice wine can be packed into wine jars and stored in a warehouse.

But for many reasons, well-made rice wine can be preserved for a long time, and the longer it is, the better it tastes.

If it is not stored properly, it will go bad in about a month.

However, Xu Han thought that the rice wine would not be kept until that time and would definitely have been drunk by them long ago.

But in modern times, rice wine is usually made and drunk immediately, and only those with good skills who brew rice wine frequently will make extra and store it.

By the time Xu Han had finished making all the rice wine, Lu Chuan and his team had already piled up all the corn stalks.

Now several people are planning to start piling up soybean straw.

"It's getting late. Go back and rest first. We can do the rest in the afternoon."

"Okay, since we only have soybean stalks, we can get them all ready in the evening. As for the sweet potato vines, they haven't been dried yet. We'll pile them up after they're dried."

When the Taoist priest saw Xu Han coming, the first thing he asked was "Is the rice wine ready?"

Xu Han smiled helplessly and said, "It's just been made. It will be ready to drink in about three or four days."

"Ah, three days? I thought I could drink it as soon as it's ready."

"Three days is fast. Making sweet potato wine takes even longer."

The Taoist priest chuckled and said, "Well, just drink whatever you have."

Xu Han also smiled and said, "Let's go. I'll make clay pot chicken corn pancakes for you today."

Lu Chuan asked in confusion, "Have you ground the cornmeal? Why haven't I seen you grind it before?"

Xu Han walked back while answering, "No, I haven't had time to grind flour recently. These are the leftovers from the previous space. Haven't you always wanted to eat clay pot chicken cornmeal pancakes? Let's eat the cornmeal in the space today, and when I have some free time later, I'll grind cornmeal again and cook it."

Lu Chuan said naively, "They are all the same. The ones in the space are all fresh. I really can't tell the difference."

The Taoist priest teased, "You are just like a pig. You eat whatever you can get without savoring the food. If you could taste it well, even a sow could climb a tree."

When Grandpa Zhao heard this, he quickly added, "You said it as if you could taste it."

The Taoist priest glanced at Grandpa Zhao and said silently in his heart, "Well, this old man Zhao is indeed very polite when eating. I can't compare with him, so I won't talk about him."

At noon, Xu Han made the clay pot chicken with corn pancakes that she had talked about for a long time as promised.

The family enjoyed the meal with relish, and Xu Han even prepared some cold drinks for everyone.

Since the beginning of summer, there has never been a shortage of ice in the house.

But with Grandpa Zhao around, people are not allowed to eat too much cold food, and even ice cubes cannot be used all the time.

According to Grandpa Zhao, people should follow the changes of the four seasons. If the temperature of the four seasons is disrupted, it is easy to get sick.

Xu Han agreed with Grandpa Zhao's statement. In her previous life, she stayed in an air-conditioned room every day, which caused her resistance to drop a lot. She often caught colds and got sick, and she had no strength all over her body.

I can't stand anything cold or hot because my body has become accustomed to that temperature.

After lunch, Xu Han took Lu Chuan for a walk in the mountains.

It has been a busy farming season recently, and no one has gone into the mountains, let alone near home.

The two walked and chatted, "Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. How are you going to celebrate it this year?"

"Just like usual, I'll make some mooncakes in the next two days, and then we can have a meal together. It's the busy farming season now, so there's no time to enjoy ourselves.

Moreover, the festivals are the same every year. In recent years, there is no way to go to the county town to celebrate the festivals. In this deep mountain, there seems to be no other way except to have a good meal. "

"The county and prefecture cities should hold lantern festivals during the Lantern Festival this year. Let's go and have a look together then."

"Well, let's just make do with the Mid-Autumn Festival. It's the same every year anyway. It's always the same with just a few of us. There's nothing new about it."

"Okay, that's about it. This year everyone has been busy with farming and building the yard, and hasn't really come to the mountains to wander around. Why did you suddenly think of coming to the mountains?"

"Aren't you going to make wine? There isn't much koji left at home. I'll go find some ingredients to make the koji."

Lu Chuan looked at Xu Han seriously and asked, "How do you make koji? If there is no koji, can we make sweet potato wine?"

Xu Han smiled and teased, "Congratulations, you got the answer right."

"Then there's no time to waste. Just tell me if you need anything. I've been to the mountains more often than you have, so I know where to find it."

"We need Polygonum hydropiper. Only with this can we make the koji. As for the other ingredients, we already have them at home."

"I know where this is. Come on, I'll take you there."

After Lu Chuan finished speaking, he walked forward first, and Xu Han hurriedly followed.

The two walked for about an hour and finally saw the large patch of Polygonum aviculare that Lu Chuan had mentioned.

At this time, the Polygonum multiflorum is full of pink and purple flowers, each ear is particularly beautiful.

Lu Chuan asked in disbelief, "This Polygonum odoratum is very spicy, can it really be used to make wine yeast?"

Xu Han plucked a spike of Polygonum hydropiper and said casually, "Of course you can. Without Polygonum hydropiper, there is no way to cultivate fungi to make wine yeast. Polygonum hydropiper is the most important raw material."

Hearing this, Lu Chuan said, "If you hadn't told me, I really couldn't imagine that the wine yeast was made from Polygonum aviculare. In my mind, I feel that the two have nothing to do with each other."

"Many things are so wonderful. This koji can be used not only to make sweet potato wine and rice wine, but also other types of wine. Generally speaking, koji is used whenever wine is made."

Hearing this, Lu Chuan became even happier. "Okay, how do we pick this? Should we cut it directly or pull it out by the roots?"

Xu Han took out a sickle from the space and handed it to Lu Chuan, saying, "We only need the flower spike on top, but this flower spike is too small. Let's just use the sickle to cut off the upper part and discard the rhizome below."