Explanatory text on black paste wine

My hometown is Lanshan County, a small mountainous county in Yongzhou City, Hunan. There are so many snacks in our hometown! There are rice cakes, fried oil tea, moxa glutinous rice cake... However, I think the most distinctive thing about my hometown is a kind of wine-black paste wine.

Black paste wine is famous in our hometown! Our black paste wine from Blue Mountain is commonly known as "cow dung wine". It is famous for its color as brown and black as cow dung. Despite his unattractive appearance and inelegant name, the wine is extremely strong. When poured out from the jar, it flows out in threads. When dropped on the table, it does not flow away and condenses into a small ball. The taste is really mellow, sweet, fragrant and refreshing, with an endless aftertaste after drinking. In the Blue Mountain countryside, this wine is only used to entertain the most distinguished guests.

Now let me tell you about the production process of black paste wine. Wash and steam the glutinous rice and let it cool. After adding sweet wine koji, put it into a fir steaming bucket and place it on a shelf made of benches and wooden sticks. Because it is mostly made in autumn and winter when the temperature is low, the outside of the bucket should be surrounded by cotton wool. For good heat preservation, sometimes a brazier is built under the barrel to heat it. When the wine juice drips out after about two or three days, a pot is used to catch it. This wine juice is the raw material for making black paste wine. The residue on top is the paste "now known as rice wine". Put the wine juice mentioned above into a small porcelain jar, seal it with oil paper, and ferment. At the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, after three seasons of spring, summer and autumn, there is already a large column of cattle cakes to be released. These cakes are the heat source for the fermentation of black paste wine and the fertilizer for the paddy fields in the second year, rather than simply using cow dung. Put these cakes near the house for easy observation and prevent them from being lost. Put several layers of cow cakes on the ground. Place the porcelain jar with wine in the middle. Surround and cover it with cow cakes. When it rains, put the cakes on top. You also need to cover it with a bamboo mat. Soon steam will start to come out from the cow cake, which means that the cow cake has begun to ferment and become hot. After a while, you can hear the sound of wine and smell the aroma of wine. When the cow cake is no longer hot, , the wine is fermented, and you can drink it after taking it out. However, most black paste wine must be added with brown rice wine, otherwise it will have white spots. The current theory is that there are too many bacterial colonies. After adding brown rice wine, it will It inhibits the growth of bacteria in black paste wine and can be stored for a long time.

After listening to my introduction to the black paste wine in our hometown, everyone must have a deeper understanding of the black paste wine! If you are interested in black paste wine, you can try it according to the method I mentioned. I believe you will definitely make a mellow, sweet, fragrant and refreshing "cow shit wine"!