Chapter 159 158. Iced Rice Wine (Duanmu League+3)

Phoenix is ​​hot, how hot it is, the temperature can easily soar to forty degrees in summer.

So how long is its summer? Starting from mid-June, many areas are still in spring, and here are already preparing for midsummer...

It's only been an hour since Li Du took Ah Miao for a stroll on the street, and he was already sweating profusely.

Ah Meow is even worse. The cat’s fur does not have a strong cooling capacity. It is so hot that it sticks out its tongue, just like a dog. It doesn’t even want to go for a walk. It climbs a lush willow tree and hides in the shade. move.

Mr. Li waved and said, "Come on, come down, let's go home."

Ah Meow looked at him suspiciously, and continued sticking out his tongue like a dog.

"Go back, turn on the air conditioner, I can't stand the heat anymore!" Mr. Li wiped his forehead, and sweat beads flew away with his hands.

Seeing this, Ah Miao trusted him, slipped down from the tree and quickly got into the backpack, and then opened the backpack with her paws to blow the air.

Cold drinks are needed in this kind of weather, but Li Du has already drank several glasses of iced juice, which is delicious but too sweet, and he doesn't want to take too much fructose.

On the way back, he passed a Chinese supermarket. After thinking about it, he went in and bought some soft glutinous rice, koji and yeast powder for wine making, planning to make some drinks by himself.

He plans to make sour rice wine, a light alcoholic drink popular in some rural parts of Japan, which he learned from working in a Japanese grocery store in college.

The hotel room was not suitable for brewing wine, so he asked the boss to borrow the kitchen, but Peters was not there, and only Nicole, a little girl dressed as a man, was wiping the glasses.

Li Du knocked on the table and said, "Hey, Nicole, the cup is already clean, why do you need to wipe it?"

The eccentric little girl gave him a blank look, and said, "This is the bartender's rule, the purpose is to relieve the pressure on the customers, don't you understand?"

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Nicole snorted and said: "When there are customers drinking, if the bartender doesn't find something to do to keep busy, the customer will think that the bartender is paying attention to himself and will feel stressed. Wiping the glass is to solve this problem. question, do you understand?"

"Understood, thank you, but if you are willing to lend me the kitchen, I will thank you even more." Mr. Li smiled.

Nicole squinted at him and said, "You want to cook?"

"No, brewing."

The little girl became a little interested: "Do you still make wine? Beer?"

"No, it takes at least a week to brew beer for a kind of rice wine. I don't have that much time to spend here." Li Du explained.

The little girl is a half-baked bartender, she is full of interest in wine making, she readily agreed to Li Du's request, but asked to come bartending together.

Li Du said: "It's no problem, but don't you need to look at the shop?"

The little girl went to the backyard and whistled. A big golden retriever ran over. Nicole handed it a bone and said, "Look at this place, OK?"

The big golden retriever drooled and nodded cheerfully, as if he understood what she said.

"This dog is well trained." Li Du praised.

The little girl said impatiently: "Of course, Xiaobi is a smart child, let's go, let's go make wine."

Many Chinese immigrants in the United States come from southern China, and most of the Chinese supermarkets are opened by these people, and their hometowns have the custom of drinking rice wine, so there are also special soft glutinous rice in the supermarket.

The glutinous rice is soaked, vacuum-packed, and can be used directly to brew rice wine after opening.

There was a large pressure cooker in the kitchen. Li Du washed the glutinous rice twice and found it was clean, so he put it in it and boiled it like porridge.

Nicole looked at it seriously and asked, "How much water to add?"

"The ratio between rice and water is about 1.15." Li Du said, "Now we have to wait patiently. It will probably take about an hour and a half to cook."

Time needs to be controlled, and Li Du will open the pot every fifteen minutes to have a look.

Because the water was less, thick porridge was slowly boiled. At this time, he turned down the fire, and the porridge started to gurgle inside, with large and small air bubbles constantly appearing in the porridge.

After about an hour and a half, the porridge was ready. At this time, the glutinous rice exuded a strong aroma. If it was served with a plate of pickles, Li Du thought it would be a good breakfast.

Let it cool down, then add koji and yeast into it, and after mixing well, he added some yogurt.

Seeing this, Nicole curled her lips and said, "It's a mess, it looks disgusting."

Li Du smiled and said, "If you knew the number of bacteria contained in yeast powder and yogurt, you would feel even more disgusted."

No matter adding yeast powder or yogurt, it is to quickly cultivate a large amount of yeast, which can save fermentation time.

After stirring evenly, he put the pot in the corner of the kitchen and said, "Tell your brother, don't pour out the contents, we will have good wine to drink by this time tomorrow."

Nicole asked in surprise, "Is that all right?"

Li Du said: "Of course, do you still think the procedure is complicated?"

Nicole stopped talking, went back and made a sticker and stuck it on the pot, with a line of beautiful small characters written on it: Whoever touches the old lady's pot, the old lady will touch his head with a beer bottle!

One day, Hans got nothing, and he set off again early the next morning. Like a professional spy, Mr. Li couldn't help but praise him for his work attitude.

In the afternoon, Nicole came to him and said, "It's twenty-four hours."

Li Du was reading a book and said casually, "It doesn't matter, it can be fermented for another two or three hours."

Nicole said angrily: "You are not rigorous at all."

Li Du saw her expectations, so he put away the book and said, "It's okay now, I'm just for insurance."

Opening the pot, like opening a bottle of beer, a stream of milky white foam gushes out, bringing out a faint smell of alcohol at the same time.

Nicole looked excited and said, "I smell the smell of wine, oh yeah, it worked!"

Now the porridge in the pot has become semi-liquid. Li Du filtered the porridge with a clean gauze, and filtered the milky white wine into a large bottle.

Nicole monkey anxiously took a sip with a spoon, said with her mouth pursed, "Well, it doesn't taste good, it just tastes like wine."

Li Du smiled and said, "Don't worry, you can say that again when it's getting late."

He puts the rice wine in the freezer, a process that allows the yeast to break down the starch into sugars and increase the acidity, while refrigeration gives the rice wine a better taste.

In the evening, when the sun was setting, Hans came back with tired steps, sweating profusely.

Li Du asked: "Are you alright buddy? Do you need to work so hard? Be careful of heatstroke!"

Hans waved his hand and said, "I'm fine, bring me a cold beer!"

Li Du said: "I'll give you another drink, it's more exciting than cold beer!"

There is a gazebo in the backyard garden of the hotel. He took out the rice wine, Hans, and Godzilla and went to the gazebo. Soon Nicole came with Peters, waiting to taste the rice wine with anticipation.

Hans handed over the cup and said, "Let me drink first, and the hero drink first."

Li Du was overjoyed: "Did you get the news about the dog's ears?"