Childhood memories of old Changzhou---sweet liquor

After the white dew, the autumn air is crisp and clear. In this harvest season, the Grain Elf Glutinous Rice, which has been brewing for four months, will usher in the harvest season for making rice wine. This is a must-do for the older generation in Changzhou, and it is also a must-do that has accompanied me from my childhood to the present. It suddenly appeared in front of me that the wine-making scene was like a fairyland shrouded in clouds and mist when I was a child. In my memory, my father treated rice wine making as a very solemn matter. Choose a sunny day, clean the fresh glutinous rice and set it aside. After the clean glutinous rice absorbs water and swells, put it into the earth stove for cooking. The freshly cooked glutinous rice will be fragrant and crystal clear, and adults will know it. Immediately put it into a bowl, mix it with lard and sugar, and the children who have been waiting eagerly around the stove for a long time will feel that it is the happiest moment of the year when the glutinous rice rolls between their teeth and the aroma lingers in their noses. !

When the steaming glutinous rice filled the whole house with mist, the rice had been put into a large wooden barrel and rinsed repeatedly until it was completely cool. Then the glutinous rice was put into the wine vat, each layer On top of a layer of rice, sprinkle a layer of wine and medicine. The adults cooperated quite tacitly. Finally, they compacted the glutinous rice with their hands and placed a wine radish in the middle of the rice so that the wine could be concentrated in one area. After everything is completed, the outside of the wine tank needs to be covered with a thick quilt to maintain a certain temperature. After 48 hours of fermentation, you can drink mellow sweet wine!

Many children have this experience with sweet wine in their childhood. Because they love to drink it, they drink it secretly. After drinking too much, their cheeks become hot and red, and then they drink it away, which makes adults dumbfounded. In that era of material scarcity, sweet wine was particularly precious in childhood memories, just like the fine nectar. If the wine is not intoxicating, everyone will get drunk!

In the dead of night, come on! Have a good taste of our home-brewed sweet white wine bar!