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Baijiu is an essential drink for Chinese entertaining guests and friends, especially during the cold winter months. At present, the liquor on the market can be roughly divided into three categories: pure liquor, aged liquor, and ordinary alcohol mixed liquor.

These three types of liquor occupy the high-end, mid-range and low-end liquor market, respectively. Of course, there are also some small workshops or home-brewed puree wine, which go to the table of ordinary people. But the most common person who drinks may be an alcoholic mixture.

Many people think that alcohol blending is fake, but this is inaccurate. The difference between alcohol blended wine and fake wine is the ** of its main raw material, alcohol. The raw material of ordinary blended sake is edible alcohol, while the raw material of fake liquor is untreated industrial alcohol.

At present, the use of industrial alcohol as a raw material for brewing is relatively rare. The liquid production process implements the national standard GB T20821-2007. The solid-liquid production process implements the national standard GB T20822-2007.

The production process of solid liquor implements a number of national standards, including five national standards, including Moutai flavor type, strong flavor type, light fragrance type, rice flavor type, and Xiaoqu solid method. Implement national mandatory standards.

You can tell if it is grain wine by hops. The shape of the hop is related to the alcohol content and the proportion of esters. The hops of a fine wine are delicate, uniform and persistent.

On the other hand, the hops of inferior wine are coarser and disappear quickly. Since alcoholic blends do not contain acids and esters produced by grain fermentation, hops are generally not produced. Even with the addition of blowing agents, it is still not possible to produce fine and durable hops.

Judging the quality of the liquor by the main raw materials of liquor, this method can be used to identify the quality of the original puree liquor, because the main raw materials will be marked on the outer packaging of the liquor, and most of the good quality liquor is Daqu liquor, and the raw materials for making koji are mainly barley, wheat, and peas. The barley, wheat, and peas in the main ingredient column are all Daqu liquor. However, this method is not suitable for identifying alcoholic blends, because any ingredient will eventually become pure alcohol, and there is little difference.

Put the alcohol-blended wine in a glass and add the same amount of water, it will not lose its luster under strong light, and the wine mixture will be clear and transparent. Pure wine will be cloudy. However, this method makes it difficult to distinguish between puree and aged wines.

Generally, the taste of grain wine is relatively light, and the taste of alcoholic wine is particularly strong, and the nose may not be able to stand it just by smelling it.

Generally, grain wine is relatively relaxed, and even if you drink too much, it will not cause alcohol poisoning and you will not faint. But alcohol is dizzy.

The taste is different, the texture is different, the use is different, the method is different, and the color is also different.

The method of distinguishing alcoholic wine and grain wine is as follows:

Pour the same amount of pure water as the wine into the wine glass to see if the wine becomes turbid, if it is transparent, it is pure alcoholic wine, and if the liquor becomes turbid, it means that it is grain wine. Pour a small amount of liquor into the glass and ignite the fire, after the flame is extinguished, observe the remaining liquor, if the liquor is cloudy it is grain wine, and the clear body is alcoholic liquor.

Difference Between Alcoholic Wine and Grain Wine:

First, the difference between raw materials.

Grain liquor is produced from pure grain, fermented and then distilled with koji.

The main raw materials of alcoholic liquor are edible alcohol and water, as well as aromatic substances such as flavors and fragrances, and substances that improve taste such as saccharin.

Second, the difference between processes.

In the general wine-making process, sorghum will go through a number of complicated processes such as steaming, adding koji, and taking wine to brew high-quality liquor, and then cellar in the wine cellar for a period of time to make the wine mature, so the wine has a natural aroma, full taste, and rich nutrition.

Comparatively speaking, the production cycle of alcoholic liquor is very short, and after blending, it can be bottled and sold. The production of alcoholic liquor is not only less affected by time and can be produced quickly; It is also very little affected by raw materials, and can be mass-produced as long as there is alcohol.

Third, the cost of winemaking is different.

First of all, the process of making wine is very complicated, it has to go through the processes of making koji, mixing, fermentation, distillation, storage, blending, packaging, etc., relatively speaking, the process of soy sauce liquor is more complicated, such as Moutai, the production cycle of a bottle of wine is nearly five years, which also increases the cost a lot. The cost of grain, winemaking generally uses corn, sorghum, wheat, rice, peas, mung beans and other crops, and the price of these grains may be clearer than many netizens.

Labor cost, this is relatively the highest cost, a winery, need general workers, need bartenders, quality inspection, sales, management personnel, etc., personnel wages vary from place to place, an average of three or four thousand yuan a month per person is considered the minimum wage, not counting the social security stipulated by the state.

1.The first trick:Judging grain wine and alcoholic wine from the implementation standards of liquor.

2.The second trick:Shake the bottle upside down and observe the changes in the hops, the ones with dense hops and slow disappearance are high-quality wines, and those with few hops and disappear quickly are inferior wines.

3.The third trick:Look at the quality of the wine from the main ingredient column. The best quality sake is Dakoji liquor. The raw materials for koji making sake are barley, wheat, peas, etc.

4.The fourth trick:After the bottle is opened, pour the wine in your hand, rub it with both hands, and put it under your nose to smell.

Take a drop of liquor and put it in the palm of your hand, and then put your palms together to make the palms of your hands touch and rub it a few times, if the smell of the wine is fragrant after it is heated, there is a grain fragrance, wine fragrance, and a bad aroma, it is a real pure grain wine; If it is blended with edible alcohol, not only does it smell bad and it hurts, but the taste is very short, and it will be tasteless after a while.

Sodium hydroxide, which is commonly referred to as caustic soda. Put the liquor to be tested in a 50:1 caustic soda ratio and put it in a test tube, or you can use a cup that can be heated at home, and then put it in hot water and boil for a few minutes.

If it is a liquor made from grains, the liquor in the test tube will turn yellow. If the color is very light, it means that the pure grain wine is impure and contains alcohol blending ingredients. It does not change color as a pure alcohol blended liquor, because the inferior liquor is blended with alcohol and spice sweeteners, and it will not have a chemical reaction when it encounters caustic soda.

How to distinguish between "grain wine" and "alcoholic wine"? The method is very simple, tell the people around you quickly.