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All the wines in the world are divided into" fermented wine, "distilled wine" and "prepared wine" according to the process.
Wine, rice wine, and beer are typical fermented wines. Cocktails, bamboo leaf greens, and medicinal liquors are standard liquors. And what we are going to talk about today is the world's six major distilled spirits. Distilled spirits are also known as spirits because of their high alcohol content.
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Baijiu is a distilled spirit unique to China, and it is also the only wine in the world that uses solid fermentation, solid distillation, and the most complex brewing process and the richest aroma substances. To that end, we can be proud.
Before the Industrial Revolution, all wines were fermented and brewed by hand and experience. Therefore, through Chinese liquor, it can also be seen that the wisdom and diligence of Chinese are unmatched by any country or nation.
The quality of liquor is determined not only by good raw materials, but also by the natural environment and brewing techniques. If you want to promote Chinese liquor to the world, you also need the output of culture and the precipitation of time.
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Brandy is a distilled liquor made from fruit, fermented, distilled, and then aged in oak barrels.
We usually think that brandy is a grape distillation, in fact, in addition to grapes, other fruits can also make brandy. But other fruit-brewed brandy, the name of the fruit must be added to the front. For example, peach brandy, apple brandy and so on. Brandy made only from grapes doesn't need to add the name of the fruit, so if you see a wine with only three words of brandy, it must be brandy made from grapes.
But all distilled spirits must be clear, transparent and colorless. Spirits such as brandy and whiskey are golden and amber because they are aged in oak barrels, which give the color of the wine. Chinese liquor is old and ripe, so it is colorless and transparent, while vodka has no color because it has not been aged at all.
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Vodka is the purest of all spirits. Unlike other spirits, vodka pursues not the complexity of the flavor and the richness of the taste, but the purity of the body. Therefore, vodka has relatively low requirements for raw materials and brewing processes, as long as it can produce alcohol.
Vodka not only does not need to be aged to produce flavor substances, but will remove all odors and miscellaneous odors in the wine through various filters. Therefore, vodka is clean and refreshing to drink, in addition to water and ethanol, vodka almost does not contain other esters, aldehydes. Therefore, vodka is also laughably called "edible alcohol in edible alcohol".
The world's edible alcohol production process is learned from vodka.
The biggest feature of vodka is the diversity of ways to drink it. Those who like pure drinks can drink directly, especially 95 degrees of vodka, which is called a cool drink. In addition, vodka can be mixed into a cocktail with a variety of other liquors or beverages because of its purity.
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Gin is not very particular about raw materials and brewing processes, fruits, potatoes, grains can be used to make wine.
Gin is also called gin, and juniper nuts are a wild little berry.
In the earliest gin brewing process, a variety of strange plants and spices will be added, of course, the taste of the wine is also full of flowers. Later, it was found that the taste and flavor of the gin after adding juniper nuts were relatively unique, and this plant was easy to grow and produce high, and later it was almost dominated by juniper nuts, so the gin was also called juniper. Gin wine is a name given to gin by the people of Taiwan and has no other meaning.
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Rum is native to Brazil and is distilled liquor made from molasses processed in sugar cane. For China's winemaking process, it is at best a food alcohol. But the difference with edible alcohol is that it is cooked in oak barrels, which adds color and flavor.
There are relatively many types of rum, but they are all aged in oak barrels at different times, or with the addition of various spices.
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Whisky is a distilled liquor made from barley, wheat and malt as raw materials for fermentation, distillation, and then aged in oak barrels.
I also want to write a little more introduction, but there is really no nonsense to write. In addition to the different raw materials, the foreigners basically work the aging of oak barrels in the later period and various additions. Told a bunch of stories, in front of Chinese liquor are little brothers.
To sum it up: the six spirits, in addition to vodka, pursue absolute purity, other spirits are pursuing the complexity of the wine body and the richness of the taste. Except for the liquor, which is naturally fragrant through the fermentation process, other spirits are made through late oak barrels and added spices to Titian.
So friends, don't blindly worship the outside world, foreign wine is just that. The pursuit of cultural diversity is understandable. The wine and beer in fermented wine are irreplaceable by Chinese liquor and rice wine, but these foreign spirits, I will also hehe...