Hearthstone Farm Lord

Chapter 77 Making Spirits (Thanks to YGGDRASIL for the 100 rewards!)

Seeing a large amount of ale being poured into the pot, Henry, the housekeeper standing beside Sean, couldn't help feeling a little distressed.

Although ale is a common drink for mercenaries, it doesn't mean that ale is cheap.

Brewing ale requires a large amount of grain. Since most ordinary residents cannot afford refined flour, ale is considered a high-end consumer product.

In case the lord fails to make spirits, wasting food is secondary, the important thing is that the territory is almost out of money, if it continues like this.
Henry didn't dare to continue thinking about it, so he put his hands together and prayed silently to the sky, hoping that the God of Light would bless them to make the strong bar smoothly!

Seeing Henry's nervous expression, Sean couldn't help laughing and said, "Relax! The method of making spirits was instructed by God, how could it fail? Don't you even believe in the God of Light?"

"Of course I believe it!" Hearing what Sean said, Henry wiped the sweat off his brow with his sleeve, feeling a little more relaxed.

But looking at the cauldron, he was still a little nervous.

At this time, the fire under the cauldron was already blazing, but there was too much wine in the cauldron, and it would take a while to boil.

Taking advantage of this time, Sean also began to explain the principles of making spirits to Henry:

"Henry, that's how spirits are made, because alcohol has a lower boiling point than water, so there's a higher alcohol content in the vapor after the boil.

Collect the steam and we get the spirits, get it? "

The reason why Sean wants to tell Henry the principle of making spirits is because the work here will be handed over to Henry in the future.

After all, Sean has to go out for hunting and leveling, so he can't stay here forever. After these few days of observation, Sean found that Henry is quite trustworthy.

"I'm sorry, my lord, I didn't understand." Butler Henry shook his head apologetically: "What is alcohol? What is the boiling point?"

"Well, the boiling point means that some substances in the wine will volatilize faster after reaching a certain temperature."

"What is volatilization?"

Sean: "."

Seeing that the explanation was unclear, Sean simply refused to explain: "These are commonly used words in the Kingdom of God. I can't explain them to you. Let's do it this way. You will probably understand it after the spirits are made."

While Sean was talking to Henry, the spirits in the cauldron gradually boiled, and the strong aroma of the wine filled the room.

Tom and the other four children had drank the ale given to them by the mercenaries, so they couldn't help swallowing when they smelled the wine.

However, the smell of wine did not affect their hard work. The four children still added firewood to the bottom of the cauldron to make the fire more prosperous.

After the beer in the pot boiled, a large amount of steam entered the bamboo tube along the small hole in the steamer barrel, and gradually condensed into dew in the bamboo tube soaked in cold water, and then flowed out from the end of the bamboo tube and flowed into the bamboo tube. into the barrels prepared in advance.

Seeing this, Henry, the housekeeper, couldn't wait any longer. He wanted to smell the freshly distilled spirits from a long distance away.

"Henry, go get a cup and bring it here for me to take a look." Sean ordered Henry.

"Okay, my lord." Henry picked up a cup prepared in advance, and picked up the condensate that flowed out from the end of the bamboo tube.

After patiently receiving a full glass, Henry smelled it with his nose and could smell the very spicy and pungent smell in the glass: "Lord, are these the legendary spirits? Or do they need to be processed in other ways?"

"This is not spirits, this is called spirits puree, bring it here and let me taste it." Sean said.

"Okay." The butler Henry handed Sean the cup containing the puree of spirits.

Sean took the glass and smelled it. It was indeed a very familiar smell of spirits.

Sean took a sip, it wasn't too spicy, probably less than forty degrees.

"This kind of wine is not good enough. It can't be called spirits. Let's prepare for the second distillation." Sean ordered the butler Henry.

"Okay, my lord."

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After the pot of ale was almost steamed, Sean directed the children to start pouring the distilled wine into the pot for secondary distillation.

The wine distilled for the second time showed a significant improvement. Sean tasted a little, and based on the experience of drinking with his boss in his previous life, he could estimate that the wine was about 60 degrees.

So Sean said to Henry: "Henry, bring the drinking water."

"No problem." Henry took the drinking water prepared in advance and handed it to Sean. The drinking water was boiled and sterilized according to Sean's requirements.

Sean took the drinking water, added less than ten percent water to the pure liquor, and shook it evenly.

I tasted it again, and at this time the alcohol content has dropped to about 53 degrees, and it already tastes like the liquor from the previous life.

The liquor in the previous life is generally around 53 degrees, because people pay more attention to the taste of liquor, and the taste of liquor at 53 degrees is the best, and it will give people a feeling of "mellow taste".

Of course, the wine merchants in the previous life did not directly add water to reduce the alcohol content like Sean, but instead stored the pure liquor in cellars for three years.

During the cellaring process, the alcohol gradually evaporates, and the finished product is about 52-53 degrees, which tastes better than mixing it directly with water.

Sean didn't have three years, so he chose the simple and rude way of adding water.

"Henry, come and taste it." After taking a sip and feeling okay, Sean handed the cup to Henry.

Henry had long been eager to try, without even thinking about it, he drank all the wine in the glass in one gulp, after all, they had always been drinking like this.

The consequences can also be imagined, Henry's face was flushed instantly by the heat: "Is this a spirit? This is too spicy! Why do dwarves like this kind of thing?"

Henry was walking around the room in agony, and was about to take a sip of water from the bucket containing drinking water, but was stopped by Sean.

When Tom and several other children saw Henry's embarrassment, their little faces tightened and they suppressed their smiles.

"Now you can't drink water, do you feel any difference after drinking the spirits?" Sean asked.

"different?"

Henry felt it carefully. In addition to feeling the burning sensation in his mouth, it seemed to be gradually getting warmer.

So Henry said: "It's a little different, it feels warm in the body, no wonder dwarves like this thing."

"Yes, the greatest use of strong liquor is to ward off the cold. It is especially suitable for bitterly cold places like the plateau. It is as warm as our Principality of Lane, so we don't really need this kind of thing."

Steward Henry looked at the puree of spirits dripping from the bamboo tube, with hot eyes, as if looking at gold: "Selling this thing to the dwarves will definitely make a lot of money. After all, the entire Principality of Ryan is now only owned by our family!"

"This place will be handed over to you in the future, and you don't need to worry about other things." Sean patted Henry on the shoulder: "You have to protect this place well, and you must not reveal the secret of the spirits, understand? ?”

"Understood!" After finishing speaking, Henry hesitated again: "But over the territory...do I not care?"

The biggest task of the steward is to help the lord manage the territory. Many territories do not have the position of consul, and the steward is the consul.

"You don't need to manage the territory, just hand it over to Anduin. What you need to do is to manage the affairs of making spirits." Sean said.

"Leave it to me, my lord!" Henry said confidently.

(End of this chapter)