The Rise of the European Emperor

Whether Marin can seize the European mid-range wine market, no one knows. But the officials and soldiers of the North Sea State enjoyed the benefits in advance-drinking wine without bitterness.

As mentioned earlier, Europeans drink wine as water. Therefore, the daily consumption is generally around one liter, or even more. Like many nobles, the daily wine consumption can reach the level of two liters.

Of course, Marin's promotion of drinking boiled water also affected wine sales to a certain extent. However, how can the habits developed over the hundreds of years since the outbreak of the Black Death be changed at will? Therefore, there is still a market for wine. Moreover, because the Holy See is currently powerful, there are many church festivals. Therefore, wine consumption is also great.

In the German region, people usually drink cheap beer to quench their thirst. However, wine is also required on religious festivals. When meeting devout believers, they often drink wine and eat unleavened bread.

Therefore, in Beihai State, besides the church, the market is not small. In addition, nobles also often drink wine. In other words, drinking wine is a status symbol.

After Marin added glycerin to the low-quality wine to remove the astringency, although he pointed to making money, he did not increase the price for the officials and soldiers of the North Sea State. For officials, it is a welfare, not to mention for soldiers, it is directly distributed for free.

Of course, this is not like the Italian soldiers in World War II who had to drink it every day. Free non-astringent wine would be distributed only on religious festivals. Marin imported a gallon of inferior French wine for only 4 pennies, including shipping costs, adding glycerin, which cost only 5 pfennigs, not more than 6 pfennigs. However, when reimbursement, but according to the price of 1 shilling (12 Finney). Of course, not taking money from soldiers is just an invitation to buy people's hearts-look, I will provide you with good wine for free, how good are the benefits?

Those officials who have seen the world don't mention that those big soldiers came out to work because their families were poor. Where can they drink good wine? As long as there is no astringency, in their eyes, it is a first-class wine. Marin provides this kind of "good wine" for free during the festival, which not only shows respect for God, but also buys people's hearts, killing two birds with one stone.

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In addition to adding glycerin to wine to remove astringency, Marin also started to add glycerin to sweet potatoes. Sweet Potato Burn is spicy and has a burning sensation in the throat. And glycerin can just increase the viscosity of liquor, making the taste better. Moreover, it can also increase sweetness.

Before, Marin had been worried that it would be difficult for sweet potatoes to replace rye Erguotou, because sweet potatoes were choking and spicy, which would give people a bad feeling.

It’s okay for those Eastern Europeans who like spirits, choking and spicy are not disadvantages, maybe they like it more. But in other regions, they may not like burning sweet potatoes. Therefore, it is necessary to suppress the choking and spicy taste of sweet potatoes.

Before,

Marin's approach is to add maple syrup or sucrose to suppress the choking and spiciness with sweetness. But with glycerin, it is different. Glycerin can increase the taste and reduce the burning and spiciness of sweet potatoes. At the same time, there is sweetness. It can be said that glycerin and sweet potato with poor taste are simply a perfect match.

Even, in later generations, some unscrupulous wine merchants mixed medical alcohol with water and added glycerin and special spices to pretend to be grain wine. Moreover, many people can't drink it. After all, after blending, it does taste like white wine brewed from grain. As everyone knows, chemists can trick your taste buds and senses...

How should I put it, it is said that many low-priced wines are produced in this way. Otherwise, where would there be so many liquors worth five or ten yuan? Is it really so cheap to brew wine from grain? The labor cost is so expensive now, the oil price is also expensive, and the truck transportation cost is very high. But there are 5 yuan wine everywhere (the purchase price is much lower), where did it come from? They sold it to you at cost? Impossible, it's not prepared with alcohol, glycerin and spices... As long as the craftsmanship is good, you can't drink it at all, and it tastes good...

Even twenty or thirty-one bottles of wine have a lot of blending ingredients. In addition, it was exposed many years ago that the wine of a certain CCTV bid king was mostly blended with received bulk wine. Even if it is an old cellar, the wine of the previous year is blended with a small part of the authentic old cellar and most of the bulk wine.

In the words of a liquor practitioner, the liquor that ordinary people buy in supermarkets can never be pure puree. Those who can drink pure puree are either big bosses or internal employees of the winery. What ordinary people take on supermarket shelves is all blended wine. Even some wines may not be mixed with even a little puree.

A very simple reason, authentic products cannot be unlimited. No matter how old your wine cellar is, how much puree can you make at one time?

But, some liquor brands call themselves Laojiao, and they are still hundreds of years old. But the problem is, there are their "old cellars" on the shelves of supermarkets all over the country... This damn is treating the people of the whole country as fools. Your wine cellar is Taihu Lake? Can you brew enough puree to fill the shelves of supermarkets across the country at one time? Not to mention the puree, even a little bit of blending in each bottle, those old cellars are not enough...

So, don't trust the "old cellars" that are everywhere on the shelves. When you buy this kind of wine, you are lucky if you can drink the blended grain wine in bulk. Many of them are blended with alcohol, glycerin and spices.

If you want to play real grain wine, it can be said that there is no winery in the country with enough production capacity to fill the shelves of supermarkets across the country. A large amount of wine is enough, no matter what blue or red you are, the moisture is huge.

Let's put it this way, the annual production of liquor in later generations of Huaxia reached tens of billion liters, that is, tens of billions of kilograms, or tens of millions of tons. Moreover, most wine merchants boast that the high-quality baijiu is brewed from sorghum... However, the annual output of sorghum in China is only two to three million tons. According to the ratio of five or six taels of wine produced from one catty of sorghum, more than one million tons of sorghum wine can be made from three million tons of sorghum... Moreover, not all sorghum is used to make wine, and a lot of sorghum is turned into sorghum It's time to meet. So... you know...

As far as Marin uses sweet potatoes to burn and adds glycerin, it will be regarded as conscience wine in later generations. After all, it's not alcohol.

However, since everything has been added, Marin has long since lost his integrity, and is going to add some other additives to the liquor...

For example, ethyl acetate...

The famous ethyl acetate is a very commonly used additive and spice in the liquor industry in later generations. Ethyl acetate can give off a slightly fruity wine aroma. After a long period of cellaring, liquor brewed from grains can generate ethyl acetate by itself, bringing the wine aroma.

After chemists figure out this principle, they will also add ethyl acetate to the fake alcohol mixed with water to artificially create the aroma of the wine. At the same time, glycerin, that is, glycerin, is also added to increase the taste.

It can be said that most of the cheap wines that cost a few dollars a bottle are mixed with these two things. If these two things are not mixed, then this wine may really be brewed from grain...

Even the famous Niu X Mountain will be marked on the bottle - edible spices. Ethyl acetate is a very popular type of liquor spice.

It can be said that as long as ethyl acetate and glycerin are added, sweet potatoes should have a fragrance and a taste, and a taste...

As for how to obtain ethyl acetate? Acetic acid is vinegar! Ethyl acetate can be obtained as long as apple cider vinegar or rice vinegar is purified and then reacted with alcohol for esterification. Marin doesn't understand other ester additives either. After all, he didn't study chemistry...

Ethyl acetate has a slight toxicity, but as long as it is added in a small amount, the toxicity is negligible. Of course, Marin will definitely put less. why? Put a little less and lower the cost...

It is not difficult to make ethyl acetate. Marin quickly asked the alchemists under his guidance to use Austrian apple cider vinegar and alcohol to create an important liquor additive-ethyl acetate.

After adding ethyl acetate to white wine, it really has the aroma of good wine. With the taste brought by glycerin...

Well, Marin feels that he has gone further and further on the road of "fake wine king"...