Mid-autumn handwritten newspaper osmanthus wine

Osmanthus fragrans is a famous wine in the south of the Yangtze River. It is brewed by Changshu Wang Si Restaurant according to the local sugar liquor (Changshu traditional old liquor) through technological reform. Osmanthus fragrans wine is brewed with spring water from the "hollow pool" of Xiaofu Temple in Qiliang Ancient Temple. Spring water is bitter and sweet, rich in minerals, high in alcohol content and strong in expansion. The wine brewed with this water is particularly mellow. The Millennium-old "Tang Gui" in the temple was added to the wine, and the osmanthus wine was amber in color, mellow in quality, with osmanthus fragrance at the top, which was quite distinctive.

Its finished product is yellow-green, fresh and mellow, sweet and clean, with pure natural osmanthus fragrance, which makes people feel moved at first taste, pleasant at second taste and fascinated at third taste, and becomes a famous local Tibetan wine in Guilin.

Why do you drink osmanthus wine in Mid-Autumn Festival?

In fact, the reason is very simple, because osmanthus flowers begin to bloom during the Mid-Autumn Festival. As the saying goes, a year's plan lies in autumn, and osmanthus fragrance is ten miles away. At this time, you can smell osmanthus fragrance ten miles away.

Osmanthus fragrans is in the middle of the month, and the fragrance is floating outside the clouds. Since ancient times, people have loved osmanthus fragrans, which can be purified and concentrated, and has the reputation of "Murraya". It is elegant and noble, full of fragrance, and is called "Xianyou" by people.

Osmanthus fragrans is regarded as the city flower in many places, such as Chengdu, Suzhou, Xianning, Lu 'an, Xinyang, Hangzhou, Guilin, Weihai and Quzhou.

Osmanthus fragrans is not only appreciated, but also edible. It can be used to brew osmanthus wine, soak osmanthus tea, or make Osmanthus Jelly.

After autumn, osmanthus began to blossom, and after mid-August, osmanthus began to wither slowly. People collect the fallen osmanthus and make osmanthus wine. Osmanthus fragrans wine tastes mellow, sweet and sour, mellow and soft, and has a long aftertaste. Moreover, drinking a little osmanthus wine after meals also helps to sleep.

manufacturing method

Production of osmanthus thick wine

1. Soak rice: put clean water into a jar, submerge the rice, stir with a wooden ladle, float the dirt and discard it. Four o'clock is suitable.

Second, steamed rice: put the rice in a cage, burn a big fire, and cook until it is eight-cooked. Leave the fire, pour water, put the rice in the middle and put it around the cage, and the temperature will drop below three degrees.

Third, mixing: evenly spread on the chopping board, spread the curved surface, and mix evenly.

Four, loading the cylinder: first put a wooden stick in the center of the cylinder, put the rice into the cylinder from all sides and pat it gently, then rotate the wooden core to pull it out, and the mouth is trumpet-shaped. Cover with white cloth, add soft straw mats, keep the temperature at 30 degrees, and the fermented grains will be cooked in three days.

5. Wine: Put two wooden sticks horizontally at the mouth of the altar, put copper wire radish on it, pour how many fermented grains in the radish, pour several times with how much raw water, reach into the fermented grains, stir and rub repeatedly, and the wine will dry.

Put rock sugar and honey into the wine, add osmanthus, and heat until it boils.

Generally sake, this wine is sticky, generally spicy, and this wine is sweet. Villagers can drink, citizens can drink, the elderly can drink, children can drink, men can drink, women can drink, strengthen the stomach, promote blood circulation, quench thirst and moisten the lungs. According to legend, Taibai drank this wine and wrote hundreds of poems. Therefore, the literati has been to Chang' an, specializing in drinking osmanthus thick wine. Today, a student wants to be a poet. Every time I go to the hotel for inspiration, I get drunk after three bowls, and I don't know the way home.