Chapter 2140： Ethyl acetate and "fake wine king" Marin

Whether Marin can grab the European mid-range wine market, no one knows. But the officials and soldiers of the North Sea country 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 consumption of wine can reach the level of two liters.

Of course, Marlin's promotion of drinking boiled water has also affected wine sales to a certain extent. However, how can the habits that have been cultivated over the centuries since the outbreak of the Black Death be changed? Therefore, wine is still very marketable. Moreover, because the Holy See is currently in great shape, there are also many church festivals. Therefore, wine consumption is also great.

In Germany, people usually drink cheap beer to quench their thirst. However, when you encounter religious holidays, you must drink wine. When meeting devout believers, they often drink wine and eat unleavened bread.

Therefore, in Beihai country, apart from churches, the market is not small. In addition, nobles often drink wine. In other words, drinking wine is a status symbol.

After Marin added glycerin to inferior wine to remove the astringency, although he pointed to making money, he did not increase the price for officials and soldiers of the North Sea country. It's a welfare for officials, not to mention soldiers, and it's distributed directly for free.

Of course, this is not like the Italian soldiers of World War II who have to drink every day, only religious festivals will give out free wine without astringency. Marlin imported a gallon of low-quality French wine for only 4 pennies, including shipping costs, adding glycerin, and the cost of 5 pfennigs, not more than 6 pfennigs. However, when reporting the bill, it is reported at the price of 1 shilling (12 pfennigs). Of course, no soldiers’ money is collected, just an invitation to buy people’s hearts—you see, I provide you with free wine, how good are the benefits?

Those officials who have seen the world don't mention that the big soldiers are all poor at home and come out to sell their lives. Where can they drink good wine? As long as there is no astringency, in their eyes, it is a great wine. Marin provides this "good wine" for free during the holidays, 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 the wine to remove the astringency, Marin also started adding glycerin to the sweet potato roast. Sweet potato burnt tastes pungent and has the sensation of burning the throat. Glycerin can increase the viscosity of liquor and make it taste better. Moreover, it can increase sweetness.

Previously, Marin had been worried that sweet potato burnt could not replace rye Erguotou, because the hot and choppy sweet potato burnt would give people a bad feeling.

The Eastern European group of people who like spirits is nothing, the choking and spicy is not a disadvantage, maybe they like it better. But other regions may not like sweet potatoes. Therefore, it is necessary to suppress the choking and spicy taste of the sweet potatoes.

Previously, Marlin's method was to add maple syrup or cane sugar to suppress the choking and spiciness with sweetness. But with glycerin, it is different. Glycerin can increase the taste and reduce the choking and spiciness of sweet potatoes. At the same time, there is sweetness. It can be said that glycerin and the poor-tasting sweet potato roast are a perfect match.

Even in later generations, some unscrupulous wine merchants used medical alcohol to mix with water and then added glycerin and special spices to pretend to be grain wine. Moreover, many people can't drink it. After all, after blending, it really tastes like a white wine made from grain. As everyone knows, a chemist can deceive your taste and senses...

How to put it, it is said that many low-priced wines are made in this way. Otherwise, where is there so much liquor for five or ten yuan? Is it really so cheap to brew wine from food? Now the labor cost is so expensive, the oil price is also expensive, and the truck transportation cost is very high. But there are 5 yuan worth of wine everywhere (the purchase price is much lower), where did it come from? They sold it to you at a cost price? Impossible, it's not blended 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 thirty one bottles of wine, there are many blending ingredients. In addition, it was revealed many years ago that the wine of a certain CCTV standard king was mostly blended from the bulk wine collected. Even if it is an old cellar, the wine of the previous vintage 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 the supermarket can never be pure puree. Those who can drink pure puree are either the bosses or the internal employees of the winery. What ordinary people take on the supermarket shelves is all blended wine. Even some wine may not be mixed with even a little puree.

A very simple truth, authentic products cannot be unlimited. How much puree can you brew in your old wine cellar?

However, some liquor brands, which call themselves Laojiao, are still hundreds of years old. But the problem is that there are “old cellars” of their family properties on the shelves of supermarkets all over the country... This Nima treats the people of the whole country as second fools. Is your wine cellar Taihu? Can one brew enough puree to fill the shelves of supermarkets across the country? Not to mention the puree, just a little bit of blending in each bottle, those old cellars are not enough...

So, don't believe in the "old cellars" everywhere on the shelves. When you buy this kind of wine, you can drink the bulk of the grain and the wine blended is considered luck. Many of them are simply blended with alcohol, glycerin and spices.

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

Let's put it this way, the annual output of Chinese liquor in later generations reached tens of billions of liters, which is tens of billions of kilograms, or ten million tons. Moreover, most wine merchants boast that it is premium liquor made from sorghum... However, the annual output of sorghum in China is only two to three million tons. According to the ratio of five to six liang of liquor from one catty of sorghum, three million tons of sorghum can make more than one million tons of sorghum...More That's it. So well... you know...

As far as Marin uses sweet potato burnt with glycerin, it will be regarded as a wine of conscience in later generations. After all, it was not made by alcohol.

However, now that everything has been added, Marin has long lost his morals and plans to add 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 long-term cellaring, the white wine made from grain can self-generate ethyl acetate and bring the wine aroma.

After the chemist has figured out this principle, he will also add ethyl acetate to the fake wine mixed with water to artificially create the aroma of the wine. At the same time, glycerin, which is glycerin, is also added to increase the taste.

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

Even the famous Niu X Mountain, UU Reading bottle will also indicate-edible spices. Ethyl acetate is one of the most popular flavors in liquor.

It can be said that as long as ethyl acetate and glycerin are added, sweet potato burning needs to be fragrant and fragrant, and it needs to have a taste...

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

Ethyl acetate has low toxicity, but as long as it is added a little less, 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 to use Austrian apple cider vinegar and alcohol under his guidance to come up with an important liquor additive—ethyl acetate.

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

Well, Marin feels that he has gone farther and farther on the road of "Fake Wine King"...