How to make sweet wine:

1, soaking: wash the glutinous rice, soak it for 12 to 16 hours, until it can be crushed by hand

2, steaming rice: put water in a steamer pot, put a layer of white cloth on the steamer drawer, and boil water until there is steam. The drained glutinous rice on the cloth steamed, about an hour. Taste it for yourself. Without the cloth, the glutinous rice will block the holes of the steam drawer and can't be steamed. This has failures. Taste the texture of the glutinous rice, if the rice is hard, sprinkle some water and mix it and steam it again for a while.

3, dripping rice: Take the steamed rice away from the steamer and cool it down to room temperature. Use chopsticks to turn it over occasionally to speed up the cooling process. Spread a few sheets of aluminum foil on the table and spread the glutinous rice into a layer two to three inches thick on top to cool. Sprinkle a little cool water over the cooled rice and spread it out with your hands, using as little water as possible.

4, drop tank: the pot will be placed in a constant temperature of about 30 degrees in the incubator for 24 to 48 hours, if the rice becomes soft, said to have been saccharine good; there is a water with a wine flavor, said that there has been alcohol and lactic acid, you can stop the heat preservation. It is best to steam again to kill the microorganisms and enzymes to stop their activities. In this way, sweet wine brewing is made successfully.

Sweet wine, also known as rice wine, wine, mash, the main raw material is glutinous rice, brewing process is simple, sweet and mellow taste, ethanol content is very small, so people love. In the production of some dishes, glutinous rice wine is often used as an important seasoning. Glutinous rice wine is also known as "red wine" because of its light red color, and "water wine" because it is infiltrated with boiling water.

This home-brewed glutinous rice wine has a mellow and sweet flavor, and is less irritating; drinking the right amount of it can soothe and invigorate the muscles and strengthen the body. Farmers must use this wine when celebrating festivals or entertaining guests. The leftover dregs of winemaking, plus salt and mix, called "bad hemp". People store it as a long-term cooking soup, and some people cook it with fresh fish, the flavor is excellent.