Drinking Xionghuang wine is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, a Chinese folk festival. It is used to drive away worms and detoxify the five poisons, and is applied to the forehead, ears, nose, hands and feet of children, and sprinkled on the walls, in order to prevent all poisons.

The old saying once said, "Drink Xionghuang wine, the disease are far away". Andrographis is a mineral, commonly known as "cockles", its main component is arsenic sulfide, and contains mercury, toxic. General drinking of xionghuang wine, just in white wine or home-brewed yellow wine to add trace andrographis and become, no pure drinking. Xionghuang wine has the effect of antiseptic insecticide to solve the five poisons, Chinese medicine is also used to cure skin diseases. In the absence of iodine and other disinfectants in ancient times, the use of andrographis soaked wine, you can get rid of poison and relieve itching.

This is the first time I've ever seen a wine that was made from Xiong Huang. So how is andrographis wine made? We can divide it into ten steps:?

?1, the seventh month of the lunar calendar to make wine medicine

For fine wine, wine medicine is the real sense of fermentation. The raw materials of wine medicine are early indica rice flour and spicy polygonum grass, and wine medicine is relatively rich in saccharification and fermentation of bacteria. In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, when the heat and humidity are moderate, it is the season for the production of liquor medicine.

?2, mid-August of the lunar calendar to make the wheat song

Wheat song is an important accessory to brewing, the main role is to be used for the saccharification agent, the quality of finished products, the quality of wine, and the quality of the wheat song is very close to the general production of the wheat song is seasonal, the historical habit of making in the lunar calendar within the month of August and September, at this time, just as osmanthus flowers, so the folk will be The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it.

?3, before and after the snow, cast glutinous rice brewing

After the snowy season, will be the most south of the best glutinous rice, the best water, plus wine medicine, wheat quart brewing.

?4. Fermentation

The beauty of wine lies in its aroma, and "the aroma depends on fermentation". The fermentation process directly determines the flavor and quality of the wine. The May 5 Yellow Wine uses "open fermentation" and "closed fermentation", or "double fermentation, yin and yang fermentation".

?5. Pressing and decocting in the spring of the following year

Pressing and decocting can promote the aging of the wine and improve the quality of the wine by eliminating the odors of raw wine.

?6, mud seal storage storage more than 5 years

will be poured into the wine has been sterilized ceramic altar, altar mouth with the boiling sterilization of the lotus leaves cover, lotus leaves with a small tile cover cover, and then wrapped in boiling water sterilization of Ruo leaves, with fine silk tightly tied altar, the outside of the mud seal storage. The most common May 5 Xionghuang wine base wine will be stored for 5 years, and the higher the number of years to prove that the brewing of the wine will be better, some will reach 20 or even 30 years.

?7, the golden ratio of mixing "Xiong" and "Huang" meet

Taking the Xionghua of Cortex Eucommiae and the Yellow Essence, i.e., "1


Take the male flower of Cortex Eucommiae and the yellow essence of Cortex Eucommiae, i.e., "1" male flower with "3~20" yellow essence, and mix.

?8, extraction

For the mixture of Dulcis macrocarpa and Huang Jing, add pure water to soak for 24 hours. For 2 kinds of herbs extraction and then depth filtration. Then cooling and other preparations.

?9. Ratio of extraction solution to base wine

The ratio of extraction solution to yellow wine is 3%-8%. The ratio is adjusted for different product types. Storage aging. Mix the products and store them away from direct sunlight in a cool place for a period of time.

?10, canning

The aged product will be filled into bottles, which, it should be noted, draws on the elements of the Imperial Palace's Duanmen and Wumen, showing the royal flavor. After thousands of years, the herbal Xionghuang Liquor, which inherits the wisdom of Chinese health, was thus born