Rice wine, wine and beer are the world's three ancient liquors, rice wine originated from China, is the Chinese Han nationality special wine treasure, unique brewing technology, is the most nutritious health wine, occupies an extremely important position in the history of world winemaking. Rice wine can be drunk by people all over the world, more suitable for Chinese, men, women and children, because it can maintain health care, but also because it is a low-alcohol wine, which is a drink that everyone can drink. As a wedding banquet wine is very suitable, everyone reunites together to bless the newlyweds, you can raise a glass and drink together, if it is liquor, some people do not drink, it is not appropriate to drink with drinks and water instead of wine, because everyone at the wine table is equal, and drinking the same wine can have a harmonious and full atmosphere.
The natural alcohol content of Chinese rice wine is generally about 15 degrees, and it will not exceed 20 degrees, that is, it is a low-alcohol wine. Rice wine is fermented (jiào) liquor, the so-called fermented liquor is a liquor that can be drunk directly without distillation after brewing, with a low alcohol content and a particularly mellow taste made with spring water. Rice wine is different from liquor in that it has not been distilled, so it is a low-alcohol liquor, while liquor is not only fermented but also distilled, and the natural liquor content of the puree is about 63 degrees, which is a strong liquor. Rice wine is a fermentation pressed liquor, and baijiu is a fermented distilled liquor, and in liquor distillation, more ethanol (alcohol) can be distilled because the boiling point of ethanol is lower than that of water. Rice wine is not distilled, it retains more grain subtlety, and the sugar content in dry rice wine is less, and the taste is mellow, fresh, and odorless. The sugar in semi-dry rice wine has not yet been fully fermented into alcohol, and some sugar is still retained. The amount of water added to this sake is low, which is equivalent to increasing the amount of rice in the ingredients, so it is also called "rice sake". Most of the high-grade rice wine in China belongs to this type. The sugar content in semi-sweet rice wine is higher.
Winemaking is the conversion of starches from grains into sugars, which are then converted into alcohol with the help of yeast. When the alcohol concentration reaches a certain height, it kills the yeast and terminates the fermentation. Therefore, rice wine is not distilled, and the alcohol content will not exceed 20 degrees. Some people will say that people who love to drink wine like to drink liquor, can you add the base liquor to the rice wine, and increase the degree of the rice wine to more than 38 degrees, so as to meet the needs of the liquor drinkers. Rice wine has a mild taste, but after all, it is also wine, and it has more stamina after being drunk. After a large amount of alcohol enters the body, it needs to be metabolized by the liver, which damages liver function and affects physical health.
The real high-grade rice wine must be low-level health care, the body accepts rice wine far more than white wine, especially Chinese are more suitable for drinking warm and soft rice wine, not very suitable for cold wine and beer. As for Chinese wedding banquets and celebrations, they tend to choose baijiu, but this is not a bad old custom worth advocating. At a time when people's living standards are improving and the concept of consumption health is getting stronger and stronger, what we should advocate and promote the most is the fashion of rice wine and carry forward the culture of health wine, which is none other than the traditional quintessence of rice wine! It is appropriate to buy traditional rice wine when you get married, and everyone needs a cup of healthy rice wine. Very wealthy, the world, good as water, but good and good; May everything be as you wish, Amitabha!
Li Songyang 2024 Gregorian Calendar 0204 "Extraordinary Wealth Rice Wine Health Chapter 3" No. 02438 Ami Wendao No. 599).