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www.meet-in-shanghai.net it, "Huangjiu" which literally translates as "Yellow
Wine". But despite its name, it has all the a ributes
of a beer: The base ingredient is a cereal grain, which
THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU LIKE culture... means: the seed of grass. But unlike in western beer,
that grass is rice instead of barley. The starch
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contained in these grains has to be converted to
sugar if you want to make an alcoholic beverage out
Jinfeng Wine Museum
Huancheng Rd, Fengjing Town, Jinshan District of it. Unlike in western breweries where the grain is
(Rice-wine) malted, the Chinese use microbes to convert starch
to sugar: Huangjiu is brewed by mixing boiled grains
with Qū as a starter culture, followed by
china and beer saccharifica on and fermenta on at around 13-18
There are two facts about the Chinese beer culture °C. That Qū is a complex mixture of various molds
that are not obvious to western visitors. First of all, known as Aspergillus, yeasts, and bacteria that slowly
China is the largest beer market in the world. But we transform the boiled rice into a wine-like beer with
hardly know the best-selling brand: Snow from China no apparent CO2 content, no foam, and hardly any
Resources brewing from Shenyang, which is also the bi erness but lots of aromas and typically also lots of
best-selling beer in the world. But there is an even alcohol. Of course, you do not want to drink that
more astonishing fact from China's beer world: China Yellow Wine in large quan es. It is safer to enjoy
has the longest tradi on of brewing a beer style, China's most prominent lager beer brand Tsingtao – a
more or less unchanged over almost nine thousand beer brewed in German tradi on – or one of the local
years. It gets even more obscure if you consider the cra beers that are ge ng more and more popular in
name of that style: "Rice Wine" or, as the Chinese call recent years.