Gin(jin jiu )

Golden wine method:

Raw materials for making gin:

Corn, barley, juniper seed, coriander, Acorus root, cardamom, angelica, fennel, almond, lemon peel, etc.

Steps of gin making:

Dutch gin is made from malt and rye. After fermentation, it is distilled for three times to obtain grain wine, and then it is distilled with juniper flavor. Finally, the distilled liquor is stored in a glass tank for ripening, and diluted to about 40 degree alcohol when packaged. The production process of British gin is simpler than that of Dutch gin, which is distilled with edible alcohol, juniper and other spices to produce dry gin.

Characteristics of gin:

Dutch gin is transparent and clear in color, outstanding in flavor and unique in style, so it is suitable for drinking alone, not as the base wine of cocktails; British gin is colorless and transparent, with strange smell and mellow taste, which can be drunk alone or mixed with other wines or as the base wine of cocktails.

Gin

Gin, also known as gin (< igeneva) < / I or gin, was first produced in Holland and became world-famous after mass production in England. It is the world's largest liquor. According to taste style, gin can be divided into spicy gin, old Tom Gin and fruity gin.

Historical origin

Gin was born in Holland and grew up in England. It is the most used wine in cocktails and has a good reputation of cocktail heart. There is a nobleman named William am III in Holland. When the dispute of British royal succession happened, he intermarried with members of the British royal family and became the prince of England, and eventually became William am III. At that time, there was no alcohol in England. Beer was the only drink at most. William am III began to introduce brandy from France and whisky from Scotland. However, due to the small amount of imported goods, the fiscal revenue is not much. So William armiii moved the Dutch gin to England and encouraged people to drink it. Gin began to be drunk in large quantities, and its quality gradually improved, and finally grew into the first wine in the world.

Brewing method

Gin gin gin is one of the world famous wines. Golden wine has an attractive aroma, colorless and transparent, fresh and refreshing taste. It can be drunk alone or blended with cocktails, and is the only indispensable wine in blended cocktails. In the middle of the 17th century, Professor Sylvester of laerton University in the Netherlands pioneered the traditional method of crushing, saccharifying, fermenting, distilling and blending barley, rye and grain. It is called synthetic method to select high quality alcohol treatment, add treated water to dilute to the required degree, and then add gin flavor.

Gin was made in 1660 by a professor named doctor Sylvius at the University of Leyden in the Netherlands. At first, the wine was made to help dutch businessmen, sailors and immigrants in East India prevent tropical malaria. It was used as a diuretic and heat clearing agent. Soon people found that the diuretic had harmonious aroma, harmonious taste, mellow and gentle, clean body, clean and refreshing natural style, and it was soon drunk as a formal alcoholic drink. The pleasant aroma of gin mainly comes from the diuretic effect of juniper. There are many kinds of processing methods of juniper nut, which are usually wrapped in gauze and hung at the outlet of distiller. When steaming the wine, its flavor will string in the wine, or soak the juniper in absolute neutral alcohol, and then reflow and re steam after a week to steam its flavor in the wine. Sometimes, it can be crushed into small pieces and added to the raw materials of wine making to saccharify, ferment and distill to obtain its flavor. Some countries and distilleries make gin with other spices, such as coriander, cardamom, licorice, orange peel, etc. Later, this kind of gin, which was made by soaking the gin in alcohol, was gradually accepted as a new drink. And the accurate formula, manufacturers have always been very confidential. It is said that William III, who was exiled in Holland in 1689, returned to England to inherit the throne, so gin was introduced into England, which was called gin gin in English and was very popular.

Wine development

There are many names of gin in the world. The Dutch call it Geller, the British call it Hollands or Genova, the German call it wacholder, the French call it Genevieve, and the Belgian call it jenevers Gin has many names: felt wine in Hong Kong and Guangdong, Qin wine in Taipei, and gin wine because of its special flavor of juniper.

In China, gin was first produced in Beijing in 1938, and its producer was French missionaries. In 1910, French missionaries founded the church winery, Beijing Shangyi winery, one kilometer outside Fucheng gate (now the Party School of Beijing Municipal Party committee). The production management and technology of Shangyi winery are under the leadership of Jishan, a Frenchman. The winery and church cover an area of nearly 100 mu. There are dozens of acres of vineyards in the winery, workshops and underground wine storage rooms. There are 16 fermentation tanks and more than 500 oak barrels on the ground and underground. At that time, there were crushers, presses, distillation towers, champagne machines and so on. The church also covers an area of 700 mu in Qianshan and Houshan (now 309 hospital) of Heishanhu village, north of the summer palace. It has introduced more than ten varieties of French grapes, such as Forrest, sabire and Frankline. The wine produced by Shangyi winery is supplied to missionaries all over the country for mass. At the same time, it is exported to cathedrals, concessions, restaurants, embassies, Western restaurants, canned food companies and so on. The pine nuts used by Shangyi winery are picked from the ancient tombs in Badachu, Xishan, Beijing. The juniper seeds grow everywhere. Their leaves have two, five and seven moustaches. They bear a lot of fruits when they grow old. They also grow in the Central Plains.

Shangyi winery makes gin by soaking and distilling juniper nut to make natural flavor, which is a way to take its flavor but not its color. In this factory, the seeds of juniper were screened, crushed and immersed in the treated alcohol, soaked for four months at room temperature, stirred regularly, and then distilled to obtain the required flavor. Shangyi winery made a pot type distilling pot with copper plate. The pot is distilled by direct fire with large evaporation area. A simple reflux device is installed on the pot, and the reflux device is connected with a snake flow cooling pipe to obtain spices after cooling. The cooling head is installed on the cooling pipe, which helps to increase the content of components in the distillate and highlight the flavor of juniper. When distilling, the head and tail of liquor should be strictly controlled, and the mid stream liquor should be selected by sections. Finally, the head and tail of liquor should be distilled twice. In this way, the quality of the spice liquor obtained is pure, which makes the gin taste mellow, endless aftertaste, delicate and harmonious. Finally, it is blended with the treated alcohol. The storage period is six months and it is bottled for sale. At that time, the wine was welcomed by the foreign wine industry, solved the problem of gin import, and soon became the main product of Beijing Hotel and Liuguo Hotel blending cocktails.

The golden wine's peak sales period was in 1946, especially among the Americans who came to China. Some of them were brought back to the United States, which was unexpected. At the same time, the golden wine spices produced by Shangyi winery are also welcomed by wineries all over the world, such as Beijing Miaoji winery, Beijing Zhangwei winery, Tianjin Lida winery, etc. Since then, gin has been widely used.

Wine characteristics

The liquor is colorless and transparent, with peculiar smell and mellow taste. It can be drunk alone or mixed with other liquor or used as base liquor for cocktails. So some people call gin the heart of cocktail.

Wine classification

British gin

Also known as dry gin, it is made from corn, malt and other cereals by stirring, heating, fermentation and distillation. British gin is transparent, fragrant and mellow. It can not only be drunk, but also be used as the base wine of cocktail. Common brands include Gordon gin, bifida gin, etc.

Dutch Gin

Dutch gin is produced in the Netherlands, mainly in Schiedam, which is the national wine of the Dutch.

Dutch gin, known as the gin (Geneva), is a kind of grain wine made from malt and barley as the main raw materials, together with gin enzyme as flavoring material, after fermentation and distillation for three times, then add gin flavor and distillation, finally store the distilled wine in the glass tank, wait for it to mature, and then dilute and bottle it when packaging. The color of Dutch style gin is transparent and clear, the wine flavor is outstanding, the flavor is strong, spicy and sweet, and the style is unique. Whether it is pure drink or ice are very refreshing, alcohol is about 52 degrees. Because of the heavy flavor, the Dutch gin is only suitable for pure drinking, not as the base wine of mixed liquor, otherwise it will destroy the balanced flavor of ingredients.

The Dutch gin should not be stored for too long before bottling, so as to avoid the oxidation of juniper nut and make the taste bitter. After bottling, it can be stored for a long time without reducing the quality. Dutch gin is often sold in long ceramic bottles. The new wine is called jonge, the old wine is called oulde, and the old wine is called zeet

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