Monster Hunter: Farm Story Begins with Pokémon

Chapter 344: New Products of the Winery (4.6k, supplemented by 4.30 days)
Bai Zhen, Shui Yun and Huo Ya worked all night to clean up the broken glass in the house.

Bai Zhen temporarily covered the broken doors and windows with cardboard.

Then we will entrust the construction team to reinstall the glass.

It was already 12 o'clock in the evening when I finished.

At the door of the room, Huoya said goodnight to Bai Zhen and prepared to go back to her room to rest: "We still have to harvest barley tomorrow, so go to bed early. Good night."

Bai Zhen saw Huoya was going back to her room to rest, so he pulled Huoya aside and asked, "What kind of offering do you want tomorrow morning?"

"Offering?" Huoya remembered that Bai Zhen had said tonight that he wanted to worship her as a god. Huoya asked with a smile, "Is this a punishment game?"

"Of course it's not a punishment game. I'm still thinking about whether I should build a temple for you and worship there every day."

It is said that young people today are kneeling in front of the Temple of the God of Wealth and cannot get up.

Now that we have a goddess of luck at home, it would be unreasonable if we don’t worship her well.

"If you really do this, I will curse you!"

Huoya pretends to be very fierce, but this does not have any deterrent effect. Instead, it gives people a cute feeling.

"Then we won't build the temple. But you have to show some appreciation. How about I offer you 50 skewers of rabbit dumplings every day?"

"That sounds a little tempting."

Seeing that Huoya was interested, Bai Zhen immediately decided to offer Huoya some rabbit dumplings every day to thank her for the good luck she brought.

Just today, Huoya blessed me and randomly got three rarity 8th skills. If I bought these three skills in the mall, they might be worth hundreds of millions.

"Then it's decided!"

"No." Bai Zhen decided, but Huoya refused, "I don't want any material things."

Bai Zhen is short of money now, and Huoya knows it.

Moreover, she now feels that the food at home is delicious, and Tuanzi eats less.

"How about I pray to you every day?"

Huoya threatened fiercely: "If you really do this, I will ignore you for three days!"

Bai Zhen was at a loss for a moment.

His instinct told him that if he didn't do something, good luck might no longer favor him.

Seeing Bai Zhen in a dilemma, Huoya comforted him, "You don't need to do anything now. I will make you a talisman in a couple of days that can bless you and grant your wishes. When I have the chance in the future, I will definitely use you well~!"

Huoya hasn't figured out what to ask Bai Zhen to do yet.

If it's too easy, wouldn't it be a waste of the super lucky event of getting two rarity 8 moves at once?
Seeing that Huoya was very determined, Bai Zhen decided not to mention the matter for the time being.

Before returning to the room, Bai Zhen hugged Huoya for a while, then let go and went back to the room.

Looking at the closed door, Huoya thought to herself: "Should I just suggest that we stay in the same room?"

After thinking about it, Huoya felt that this was too shameless, and then she hid this idea deep in her heart.

10 month 21 day.

This day is the time when the barley is ripe.

When he woke up in the morning, Bai Zhen used the leftover wheat flour to make whole wheat bread for everyone to fill their stomachs.

Everyone will be very busy all day today. Today, 50 acres of barley fields are ripe, and Bai Zhen has to harvest and make wine, so he will have almost no time to rest.

After making the whole wheat bread, Bai Zhen went outside and looked at the ice sculpture.

The Red Lotus Armor Knight didn't seem to wake up all night.

I'm afraid the Red Lotus Armored Cavalry won't have the chance to help with the harvest today.

One thing worth mentioning is that ever since Bai Zhen obtained the immature secret seasoning, Bai Zhen has tried to feed the immature secret seasoning to his combat pets.

Whether it is the Red Lotus Armored Cavalry, the Da Wan, or monsters like the Boom Dragon.

None of them have the ability to become treasure masters and acquire the skills of treasure masters, but monsters such as the Boom Dragon can increase the level of their own monster blood by eating secret seasonings.

Secret seasonings don’t have to be limited to cooking recipes.

Bai Zhen took the bread, rode on the Hell Wolf Dragon, and let the Hell Wolf Dragon take him to the farm.

When Bai Zhen arrived at the farm, the cats were already busy.

Bai Zhen also came to help. He used water shuriken as a sickle to harvest the ripe barley, and the harvest was quick and good.

The barley harvest was completed in just one morning.

Bai Zhenyi weighed the 50-acre Lv.7 barley field and found that after a period of careful care, a total harvest of nearly 40000 kilograms of barley, or about 20 tons of barley, had been harvested.

Bai Zhen plans to use this barley to make barley whiskey, gin, and beer.

As for the brewing of whiskey, Bai Zhen had always used wheat to brew it, so he was familiar with the entire brewing process.

There will be no problems in the whole process, and this time when brewing whiskey with barley, Bai Zhen prepares one brewed with single barley and one brewed with a mixture of wheat and barley.

This means that when the whiskey comes out of the barrel in the future, Richen Distillery will launch three types of whiskey at one time, namely single wheat whiskey, single barley whiskey, and blended whiskey.

The taste of the three whiskies will be significantly different, and new packaging will be designed and released in due course.

After whiskey is brewed, it takes at least three years to mature, which is equivalent to 3 days before it can be taken out of the barrel. The first batch of whiskey will not be taken out of the barrel and bottled until December 110, which means it will take a long time.

In addition to whiskey, this is the first time that the winery has produced gin and beer.

Gin is one of the base liquors for cocktails.

The six base liquors of cocktails are whiskey, vodka, rum, gin, brandy and tequila.

The winery is already able to brew its own whiskey, vodka, and brandy distilled from grapes.

The rest of the gin, rum, and tequila have yet to be brewed.

Gin is a distilled liquor made from grains and other raw materials, with a base liquor obtained through saccharification, fermentation and distillation, and then extracted or distilled using plant aroma sources including juniper berries.

The biggest feature of gin is that its aroma and taste are richer than distilled liquor such as vodka.

Rum is a distilled liquor made from sugarcane juice, sugarcane molasses, sugarcane syrup or other sugarcane processed products, which is fermented, distilled, aged and blended.

Rum has a sweet, aromatic taste.

Because sugarcane has a long growth cycle, the sugarcane on the farm has only been cultivated to level 5 at this stage. It will take at least two months to reach level 7. It is estimated that brewing can only start in mid-December.

Tequila is a distilled liquor made from agave through fermentation, distillation, aging and blending.

Because the growth cycle of agave takes about 7 to 10 years, even if Bai Zhen has a universal tool, as well as farming skills and the growth skills of grass-type Pokémon, agave still needs about 180 days to grow, which is equivalent to about 6 months to cultivate it once.

At this stage, the level 5 agave has been planted. It will take at least a year and a half to get the level 7 agave. Bai Zhen has already given up on making agave the main product of the farm, but he will not give up on cultivating the agave so easily. The more time it takes to cultivate something, the more powerful gains it may bring in the future.

Rum and tequila cannot be brewed at this stage.

But gin and beer can be brewed from barley.

In addition to barley, gin also uses juniper berries as a flavoring ingredient.

Juniper berries come from the juniper tree, which is not a tree with a trunk, but an evergreen shrub that can grow up to 10 meters tall, but is usually around 2 meters tall.

The growth cycle of the juniper tree is also measured in years. Even though Bai Zhen started training it a long time ago, he has only completed one training session now.

He originally purchased the best juniper berries, grade 4. Now after training, the grade of the juniper berries has reached grade 5.

The grade is increased by 1 level, and the aroma of juniper berries also rises to a higher level.

The saccharification and fermentation of gin is exactly the same as when making vodka, which is to let the barley germinate, then dry and crush it, and then add yeast to ferment the sugar in the barley into alcohol.

The key point is the perfume adjustment step. There are many ways to adjust perfume. The simplest way to adjust perfume in industry is to add cheap industrial flavors for blending.

Since Bai Zhen intended to make the best gin in the world, he naturally could not use this kind of industrial flavor, but instead used the most perfect plant herbs.

For the first gin launched by Richen Farm, Bai Zhen does not plan to use more spices. He plans to make a classic version using only juniper berries.

There are many ways to blend the aroma of juniper berries into the wine, but in the end Bai Zhen chose a relatively simple method, which is to wrap the juniper berries with gauze or a cloth bag, and then hang it on the top of the distillation tower, so that the distilled wine can be fully mixed with the aroma of juniper berries in the form of steam.

The whole process went very smoothly.

Bai Zhen took out 40000 kilograms of more than 10000 kilograms of barley to make gin.

The yield of gin is about 30%. After a busy day, Bai Zhen obtained a total of about 95 kilograms of gin with an alcohol content of 3000%.

3000 kilograms of high-concentration gin were mixed and diluted with fire water in a ratio of 4 to 6, and Bai Zhen finally obtained about 7500 kilograms of gin.

It was not until the early morning of October 10 that Bai Zhen finally completed the distillation of all the liquor and put it into 22ml bottles. Bai Zhen obtained a total of 750 bottles of gin.

There were more than 30000 kilograms of barley left, and Bai Zhen took 20000 kilograms of barley to make whiskey.

最后又得到了28桶的225L的大麦和混合威士忌，这些威士忌需要110天的时间陈酿，大概明年2月9日能够出桶销售。

One point worth mentioning is that no matter whether it is whiskey made from barley and wheat, or wine, as long as the raw materials of these wines are mature, Bai Zhen will immediately make them into wine and store them.

After the whiskey starts selling, Bai Zhen will be able to sell it about once every 18 days. Lv.4 wine can be barreled once every 10 days, and Lv.5 wine can be barreled once every 12 days. There is no need to wait for two or three months like now.

Bai Zhen used the remaining 10000 kilograms of barley to make craft beer.

The beer making process is relatively complicated.

The first step is still the traditional process of [malting], which is to let the barley germinate and then dry it.

The second step is also the traditional step in winemaking [saccharification], which converts the starch in the barley into sugar.

The third step is [filtration], which separates the wheat dregs from the wort. The wort enters the next process, and the wheat dregs can be dried and sent to the ranch to feed the big milk tank, sent to the fish farm to feed the fish, or sent to the farm to make compost, directly realizing internal circulation digestion within the farm, with almost no waste.

The fourth step is [boiling]. In this step, the separated wort needs to be put into a container and boiled. Boiling can have the effect of inactivating and sterilizing. In addition, hops need to be added in this step.

Hops add bitterness and aroma to beer and are one of the most important raw materials for making beer.

The growth cycle of hops is not long. Bai Zhen has already cultivated Lv.7 hops, and then used this hops and high-grade barley to make beer.

Moreover, the hops used by Bai Zhen also have a pleasant and rich mint aroma, which makes the smell of beer smell more comfortable.

In addition to adding bitterness and aroma, hops can also clarify the wort and give beer antioxidant properties.

The quality of hops also determines the final quality of the beer.

The fifth step is [cooling]. This step is to keep the temperature of the wort at a temperature suitable for yeast fermentation. This step also requires very strict temperature control. Too high, too low, or even cooling too quickly will affect the quality of the wort.

It doesn’t matter if there is no professional temperature control equipment. Bai Zhen, who controls the stone slab, can control the temperature perfectly as long as he does it himself.

Using stone slabs to control the temperature is like using a star destroyer to kill a mosquito. However, for Bai Zhen, who can use part of the stone slab's power at will, the stone slab's temperature control ability is more convenient than the device's temperature control, and it also allows him to perceive the condition of the wort more accurately.

After cooling, it is time for the sixth step [fermentation]. Fermentation is the process of fermenting the sugar in the wort into alcohol. Different from previous fermentations, beer fermentation must be carried out twice to produce the most delicious beer.

After the beer fermentation is completed, it is the seventh step of [secondary filtration]. This step of filtration is different from the third step of filtration. The main purpose of this step is to remove yeast and sediment during fermentation.

After this step, the beer will appear clear and free of impurities.

The last step is the eighth step [sterilization].

Beer is divided into unpasteurized [draft beer] that retains its original taste and pasteurized [cooked beer] that has been sterilized or instantaneously sterilized at high temperature.

The shelf life of draft beer is basically 7 to 30 days, and if it is transported, it must be transported through the entire cold chain and stored in a refrigerated environment.

If you want to enjoy the best taste of beer, it is undoubtedly best to choose [draft beer].

In terms of taste, draft beer is obviously better than cooked beer. Draft beer tastes purer, fresher, more nutritious, and has richer foam.

But with the transportation efficiency in Monster Hunter World, the [mature beer] after sterilization is the best and can be stored for a long time, probably several months to a year.

However, Bai Zhen did not make the beer into [cooked beer], nor did he keep it as [draft beer].

Instead, they improved the process and produced [pure draft beer].

Pure draft beer is beer filtered using microfiltration technology, which can filter out bacteria and yeast in the beer without raising the temperature, thereby achieving the effect of sterilization while retaining the flavor and nutrition of the beer.

The taste of pure draft beer is between draft beer and cooked beer, with moderate foam, and it can be stored for a long time without refrigeration.

Microfiltration technology can only be regarded as ordinary beer technology in the Pokémon world, but in the Monster Hunter world, it is a non-existent high-end technology.

Bai Zhen used a universal tool to filter and produced a large amount of pure draft beer.

With so much alcohol, Bai Zhen did not make all of it into [pure draft beer], but instead made part of it into [raw beer] and [draft beer] that had not undergone sterilization steps.

Raw beer is not a type of draft beer.

Raw beer is a draft beer concentrate that does not contain any preservatives or additives, is not filtered, and does not go through any inactivation process, retaining fresh yeast.

This is equivalent to the wine obtained by simply filtering out the sediment after completing the secondary fermentation in the sixth step.

Because this raw beer still retains yeast, the foam is extremely rich, the aroma is rich, the taste is thick, and the taste is fresh and mellow. It tastes better than draft beer.

Bai Zhen poured these [raw beer] into a sterile vacuum container called a 'space barrel', preparing to sell it directly to the royal family of the kingdom at a high price.

The yield of beer is very high because a large amount of water is added during the brewing process.

One kilogram of barley can produce four to five kilograms of beer.

With the more than 10000 kilograms of barley, Bai Zhen brewed about 48000 kilograms, or almost 24 tons, of beer.

Among them, 20 tons of beer are [pure draft beer], 2 tons are [draft beer], and 2 tons are [original beer].

Bai Zhen was busy until October 10rd, and today was the time that the Ascending Volt Attack Team and Bai Zhen had agreed to come to the island.

(End of this chapter)