◆How much does a bottle of Moutai cost? The price of 15-year-old Moutai VIP wine is 3,060 yuan. One kilogram is packed. If it is served in a half-liang cup, it will be 20 cups; 3060÷20, each cup is equal to 153 yuan. Not cheap.
◆If it is an ordinary popular liquor on the restaurant table, let’s say it costs 100 yuan. If you pour 20 cups, each cup is equivalent to 5 yuan, which is not expensive.
◆What if it’s Erguotou? The most common bottle of Red Star Erguotou is only 8 yuan, 8÷20, which is only 40 cents per cup.
Among the above three situations, I believe the first one has no chance with most of us.
The second situation is quite common. For 5 yuan, you can go back to the past with a glass of wine.
As for the third situation, to be honest, for people who like to drink, I believe that most people (especially northerners) have drunk Red Star Erguotou. People who are addicted to alcohol have always been "addicted" very cheaply.
It only costs 40 cents to go back to the past with a glass of wine like this.
Sad, right? We have destroyed ourselves countless times very cheaply (to put it harshly, “cheaply”) with just a few dollars or even a few cents!
Of course, I am not a money addict, and I also know that health and happiness cannot be calculated by price.
However, there is a price for our own destruction, and it is quite cheap!
When buying wine, you should be careful when you see GB/T10871. Be sure to note that the national standard for standard sauce-flavor liquor is GB/T26760, and there is a difference between the two.
How to identify the quality of wine
The most effective way to identify the quality of wine is to learn how to make naked wine. Naked wine is to light a fire in the wine, burn out the alcohol, and take off the wine's clothes. At this time, the remaining wine is called naked wine. This is a technique of acid-ester separation. The wine brewed from pure grains is clear and transparent before being made into naked wine. After being made into naked wine, it will become very turbid. When you taste it carefully, you will have the sour taste of grain fermentation. After the sour taste, there will be a slight sweetness, and after the sweet taste, it will become clear and transparent. There will be a slight lees flavor and a slight bitterness on the tongue. If there is an astringent taste like urine in the mouth, then it must have edible alcohol added to it - whether it is potato alcohol, molasses alcohol or corn alcohol, they all have this characteristic.
The truth about plasticizers in liquor: It is a "necessity", not Shenma plastic pipes
Recently, the trust in Chinese liquor was caused by the fact that Xiangxi Jiugui Liquor was inspected by the media and found plasticizers. The crisis has intensified. In the past ten days, the entire liquor sector in China's stock market has lost hundreds of billions in market value. In Hong Kong, the netizen "Crystal King" who claimed to be an investor in Moutai purchased Moutai and sent it for inspection. The results showed that Moutai, which is known as the best liquor in China, seems to be unable to escape the curse of plasticizer. Since the purchase and inspection process of "Crystal Emperor" was not witnessed by a third party, and only one inspection agency was sent for inspection, it is still controversial whether the plasticizer data of Moutai obtained is credible, but it still leads to A huge shock to the liquor industry. On December 12, at a press conference held by Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd. in Guiyang, Ma Yong, executive vice president of the Liquor Professional Committee of the China Food Industry Association, defended Moutai and said that even if the products submitted for inspection by "Crystal Emperor" were tested positive for DHP The value of 3.3 is calculated according to the relevant EU standards of 50 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day. If each person drinks two kilograms of Maotai liquor per day, it still meets the human body tolerance limit given by the EU food safety standards. But the question is, why do chemical preparations that should not appear in food appear in the brewing of liquor? However, a report published yesterday by the Guangzhou news weekly "Times Weekly" stated that the use of plasticizers is very common in Chinese liquor, especially the mainstream blended liquor in the market. After the plasticizer incident was exposed, although major liquor manufacturers announced to the outside world that the plasticizer was produced because the transportation pipes and wine containers were made of plastic during the brewing and transportation processes, they also claimed that they had been comprehensively Moutai has previously told the media that it has basically eliminated the use of plastic products in the production process. According to the report, in China’s current winemaking industry, plasticizers are basically produced in all winemaking industries that focus on blending. Most Chinese liquors contain plasticizers, and the main reason is - blending. In the mid-1950s, in order to save food and promote the development of the brewing industry, new technology for blending liquor was brought to the forefront. This was the beginning of Chinese liquor blending.
Currently, Sichuan and Guizhou are the major exporters of liquor in the Chinese market. In addition, any brand of so-called famous wine is basically blended with the "original wine" from the above two provinces. During the blending process of blended wine (including many so-called "famous brands"), in addition to the "wine head" (original wine), a magical "food additive" is also used. If this "food additive" is not used, the resulting The taste of white wine will be much worse. A large number of liquor manufacturers use this "food additive" without exception, causing liquor plasticizers to seriously exceed standards. According to the newspaper’s investigation, this type of blending additive can be purchased on the market. When blending liquor, plasticizers are used and added in large quantities. The main function is to prevent liquid stratification. As we all know, alcohol dissolves in pure water, but edible alcohol is not pure alcohol. Many additives such as flavors must be added during the blending process. Therefore, if the blended wine does not add plasticizer, the upper part of the drink will become stale when left for a long time. It tastes like water, but the second half tastes like alcohol and flavor. In addition, plasticizers can also increase the thickness, which is often referred to as hanging cups in the liquor industry. In addition, many manufacturers promote their high-end liquor as vintage wine, because the older the liquor, the higher the price. The key is that many wineries don’t have that much cellaring at all, and the only basis for consumers to judge the vintage is color and consistency. This provides manufacturers with an opportunity to rely on plasticizers to increase the viscosity of the wine. The older the vintage, the more added. Plasticizer is the traditional name of the plastics industry. In the plastics industry, these esters help to improve the physical and chemical properties of plastics, such as toughness, etc., so new plastic products often smell very strong and special aroma. Tang Min, a professor at the School of Chemical Engineering at Sichuan University, told the reporter that modern people pursue pleasure, and the original mellow aroma in liquor can no longer satisfy people's pursuit of unlimited fragrance, and most organic chemical reaction processes are extremely slow. The ancient Chinese did not know the relationship between "cellar" and "fragrance". They attributed the source of "fragrance" to "cellar" and the "fragrance" because of "cellar". They did not know that it was due to the impurities in the brewing of liquor. For example, organic acids combine with alcohol to form esters, and the so-called "cellar aroma" is the ester aroma, so there are concepts such as dividing liquor into "cellar aroma" and "cellar aroma". Tang Min said that today's liquor manufacturers understand chemistry very well and no longer use "cellaring" methods to enhance the aroma. In order to obtain the maximum economic return, the quickest, most cost-effective way is: alcohol or original wine + water + ester. This "ester" is actually a plasticizer. In some places, "ester" is given a more pleasant name - aging agent. Tang Min also said that except for a few manufacturers that have a large number of wine cellars to store wine, the other so-called "10-year aging" and "5-year aging" basically use edible alcohol + water + ester to blend. The first domestically launched “vintage wine” was Kweichow Moutai, the leader in the liquor industry. Moutai Company successively launched 15-year-old, 30-year-old and 50-year-old liquors, and later added 80-year-old "vintage liquor". After Moutai launched the so-called "vintage liquor", various listed liquor companies followed suit and successively launched various, Dazzling "vintage wine". The newspaper said that vintage wine is purely a gimmick, because it can be clearly seen from the production process that only Moutai may have some stored wine from decades ago, and the specific amount is unknown. But 30 years ago, that is, in the early 1980s, the output of Moutai was only 200 tons. It is obvious where other brands of vintage wines come from. Where do so many "vintage wines" come from? To be honest, many brands of vintage wine have a few drops added. It is indeed wine stored in the cellar thirty years ago, just a few drops. What is unreal is that the finished product has just come out of the packaging workshop and is packed in a beautiful gift box. It is no different from ordinary wine. But as long as the word "age" is added, the value will be tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. According to Ma Xiong, Moutai designer and senior craftsman, the expensive Moutai vintage wine is never put on the market. It is taken away directly from the factory by well-known departments or figures. Each bottle of vintage Moutai costs at least 5 Ten thousand yuan, the older it is, the higher the price, 300,000 to 500,000 yuan is the norm. The buyers range from public funds to individuals, but public funds are the most common. When Jiugui Liquor's plasticizer exceeded the standard, it exposed all the unspoken rules of the industry. The newspaper asserted that the plasticizer was the melamine incident in China's liquor industry
Abandon the outdated concepts
In the past, the plasticizer was addicted to While drinking, we accumulate some deep-rooted thoughts in life. Even after we stop drinking, they cannot disappear like magic in an instant.
Although we are far away from the days of drunkenness and dreaming, the disease of alcohol addiction still lingers. So we have discovered that it will help in our healing process if we can try to remove many of the old beliefs that are beginning to take root again.
And these old thoughts do happen again and again. What we strive to achieve is to regain a sense of relaxation and freedom from the constraints of the past. Many of our past habits of thinking and the concepts they form limit our autonomy.
When we take a closer look with fresh eyes, it turns out that they only serve to crush us and serve no purpose. There is no need to hold on to something until it has been proven to work and actually still works.
We can now use very specific criteria to measure an idea’s current practicality and authenticity. We can say to ourselves, "That's what I often think when I'm drinking. Is this thought pattern helping me stay sober now? Is this thought good for me today?" Many of the old beliefs we have in the past— —especially those thoughts about alcohol, drinking, drunkenness, and alcohol dependence (or alcoholism, if you prefer that term)—are either worthless to us or actually self-destructive , getting rid of those thoughts will be a huge relief.
Perhaps a few examples will suffice to illustrate the benefits of abandoning these outdated and useless concepts. When we are teenagers, for many of us, drinking is a way of proving that we are no longer children, or that we have grown up and are smart, sophisticated, worldly, or adequate. Being strong can defy parents and other authorities.
In many people’s minds, drinking is always inseparable from romance, sex, music, success, a sense of superiority, and luxury. If schools teach anything about drinking, it's usually just about the health hazards and possible driver's license suspension - not much else.
At the same time, many people are still quite convinced that any drinking behavior is completely immoral and leads directly to crime, pain, shame and death. Whatever our feelings about drinking may have been, positive or negative, they were usually intense and far more emotional than rational. Perhaps our attitude toward drinking is simply unconscious, accepting the opinions of others without thinking.
For many people, drinking is a necessary and innocuous part of social situations, an enjoyable leisure activity carried out between friends in certain places and at certain times.
Others may view wine as a necessary accompaniment to their meal. But now we ask ourselves: If we don’t drink, are we actually unable to enjoy friendship or good food? Does the way we drink help improve our social relationships? Does it improve our ability to enjoy delicious food? Whether we are for or against the idea of ??getting drunk, what are the consequences? The reaction was even more extreme. Drinking too much may be seen as just fun or just embarrassing.
The idea of ??getting drunk is off-putting to many people for a variety of reasons. But for some of us, it's a state of longing, and getting drunk is not just about meeting other people's expectations, but we also enjoy the feeling ourselves. But at the same time, there is another influencing factor, which is the blatant neglect by celebrities in society.
Some people are completely intolerant of people who have never been drunk, others despise people who get too drunk. Given what is being discovered about today's health care, the impact it can have on changing these attitudes is still quite limited. When we first hear the term "alcoholic," most of us think of someone who is old, ragged, shaky, or obnoxious, begging, or drinking in the ghetto. Drunk people.
Now anyone who knows enough about this issue knows that this is all bullshit. Yet despite this, vague notions of our past linger with us as we first try to stay awake.
It obscures our vision and makes it difficult for us to detect the truth of the matter. But in the end, we finally become willing to accept that changing those ideas of the past - just maybe - may be partly wrong, or at least no longer fully accurately reflect our personal experience.
When we can convince ourselves to take an honest look at past experiences and listen carefully to other ideas that are different from our own, we can open our minds to a long list of information that we have not examined in detail in the past.
For example, we can look at the narrative of the scientific profession: alcohol is not only a delicious thirst-quenching drink, but also an ideologically altering agent. We learned that pharmaceuticals can be found not only in drinks, but also in food and various medicines. And almost every day now, we can read or hear that some specific drugs cause multiple harms to the human body
(including to the heart, blood vessels, stomach, lungs, mouth, brain, etc. etc.) This is a situation we have never suspected before. Pharmacologists and other addiction treatment experts now agree that alcohol, whether used as a drink, stimulant, sedative, tonic or tranquilizer, cannot be considered completely safe. But for each single case, it does not necessarily directly lead to physical harm or mental distress.
Obviously most people can use it gracefully without causing harm to themselves or others. We discovered that drinking alcohol can be considered medically like taking a drug, and being drunk is like taking an overdose. Substance abuse can directly or indirectly cause a variety of physical health, mental, family, social, financial, and work problems.
We can begin to see the consequences that alcohol has for some people, rather than mostly just thinking about what drinking does to us. We have also realized that anyone who has any kind of trouble with drinking may be suffering from what we call an alcoholic condition.
This disease affects people regardless of their age, creed, race, gender, intelligence, background, emotions, health, occupation, family status, physical fitness, eating habits, social or economic status or other Average personality. The question is not how much or how you drink, when or why, but how drinking affects your life - what happens when you drink.
Before we can recognize that we have this disease, we must first get over an old and tired myth: admitting that we have no control over our drinking is a shameful and cowardly sign (if we ever).
Weak? In fact, it takes considerable courage for us to face this cruel reality without reservation, cover-up, or excuse, and at the same time, we no longer need to deceive ourselves. (While not necessarily bragging, let’s be honest, many of us fantasize about being world champions.) Our recovery from alcohol addiction can also be clouded by misconceptions. Like millions of other people who have witnessed a person die as a result of drinking, they are astonished at the alcoholic's inability to stop drinking of his own will.
This is another outdated idea. The reason why we keep this idea in our minds is mainly because many of us were exposed to some typical cases of super willpower in our early years, perhaps. There was a family or neighborhood legend. After years of living a dissolute life, he became notorious, but suddenly changed his mind and gave up alcohol and women. At the age of 50, he changed his mind and started a new life. He never drank alcohol and became a model of decent behavior, honesty and integrity.
The naive idea that we can do the same thing when we are ready is a dangerous illusion. We are not anyone else. We are just who we are (and we are not the grandfather who drank a bottle a day and lived until he was 90.) What we now know for sure is that overcoming alcohol addiction through sheer willpower can be as effective as therapy. Cancer in general. This has been confirmed time and time again from our own experience.
Most of us have tried to figure it out on our own, whether it was to control our drinking or stop drinking, but no matter how hard we tried we just couldn't achieve lasting success. Even so, it can be difficult to admit that we need help. Because this approach seems to be a sign of cowardice.
Yes, we are trapped in another kind of loss. But we finally ask ourselves: Wouldn't it be wiser if we could access and use greater power than if we fought alone in vain, especially after we have repeatedly proven over time that it doesn't work? If we flip a switch, Just turn on the lights, we don't think it's wise to continue trying to figure it out in the dark.
We cannot achieve sobriety entirely on our own. This is not how we are taught to stay awake.
Enjoying sober life to the fullest at the same time is not something one can do alone. As long as we can consider a few perspectives that are different from our old ideas, even temporarily, we have made a good decision and entered a happy and healthy new life.
Originally we believed that this would never happen, but this change is happening to thousands of our members at this moment.