Category Archives: Baijiu basics

Baijiu basics: sauce aroma

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

They call it sauce-aroma, jiangxiang 酱香, as in soy sauce-aroma. The dreaded saucy sauce is a leveler of foreign palates. I’ve made no secret on this blog that sauce-aroma is my least favorite baijiu category, and recent taste tests conducted … Continue reading →

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Baijiu basics: strong aroma

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

Full disclosure: I live in Sichuan and think its strong-aroma baijiu is the best spirit China produces. But the Chinese seem to have my back on this one. Somewhere between about twenty-five and seventy percent[1] of the baijiu on the … Continue reading →

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Baijiu basics: light aroma

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

Hello from the UK, baijiu buddies. Away on holiday for the moment, so I will be updating infrequently for the rest of the month, but I wanted to post another category breakdown to hold you over. Qing xiang 清香, light aroma, … Continue reading →

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Baijiu basics: rice aroma

Posted on August 9, 2012 by

A couple weeks ago I explained, from start to finish, the process of making baijiu. This was not idle talk but a necessary first step in introducing the various categories of baijiu in greater depth. To review, there are five steps … Continue reading →

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Making baijiu made simple

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

Apologies for the absence last week, I was travelling sans VPN and the Chinese government hates wordpress almost as much as they love baijiu. It was not an entire loss, though, because during this moment of introspection it dawned on … Continue reading →

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