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Baijiu basics: sauce aroma
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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Tagged big qu, distillation, fermentation, Kweichow Moutai, Lang Jiu, Maotai, Maotai Town, pit fermentation, sauce aroma, solid-state, sour mash
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Baijiu basics: strong aroma
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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Tagged big qu, distillation, fermentation, Guojiao 1573, Luzhou Laojiao, pit fermentation, Shuijingfang, solid-state, sour mash, strong aroma, Wuliangye
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Baijiu basics: light aroma
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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Tagged distillation, Erguotou, Fenjiu, fermentation, light aroma, qu, rice, Sorghum, wheat qu
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Making baijiu made simple
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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Tagged aging, brewing, distillation, fermentation, moonshine, qu, saccharification, storage
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Miracle in Dongbei?
Last week Xinhua published a story whose headline announced, “Nation’s oldest brewery unearthed in northeast China.” The nation’s oldest brewery – Harbin – is indeed in Dongbei, but upon closer inspection this story was about the oldest distillery. The story … Continue reading
Posted in Historical oddity, News
Tagged Da’an, distillation, Dongbei, inventions, Jabir Ibn Hayyan, Jilin, Jin Dynasty, Liao Dynasty, nationalism, Song Dynasty, Xinhua, Yuan Dynasty
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