Monster Hunter: Farm Story Begins with Pokémon

Chapter 346 A Little Shock of Modern Technology (5.2k, supplemented on May 5.1)
After learning about the situation from Rodna.

Bai Zhen doesn't take these little things to heart. Even the quality of wine in the Pokémon world is not as good as his wine, let alone the Monster Hunter world.

Frank was standing in the yard at this moment, observing the surrounding environment.

Looking at the dilapidated house, Frank thought to himself, "Is this the place where the Richen Winery produces red wine that even Her Majesty the Queen praises?"

Frank looked at the sanitary conditions here again, and found that they were very clean.

But he couldn't help but feel a little contemptuous in his heart: "How can a place that looks like a small workshop be called a winery?"

Frank stood in the yard for a while, and Bai Zhen and Rodna followed him.

Bai Zhen asked Elu Cat to bring a clean wooden table and two chairs and placed them outside the kitchen.

The kitchen is full of kitchen utensils and there is no place for people to sit.

Bai Zhen invited the two to wait for a while.

Frank's fingers slid across the table. There was no dust on his fingertips, but he still nitpicked, "Since this is a red wine that His Majesty can praise, is it really necessary to taste it in a place like this? Is this your attitude towards your own work?"

Bai Zhen said: "I'm sorry, the environment here is just like this. I usually live on my island in another dimension. At this stage, my island does not welcome outsiders."

It seems that Frank is still looking for trouble.

Bai Zhen took the lead and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "Sir Frank, this is Yanhuo Village, not your kingdom. Since you are here on behalf of your queen, then your every word and action represents your queen. Please think twice before you say anything, and don't bring shame to your queen because of your childish behavior."

Yanhuo Village does not belong to the Kingdom. Although the two sides have a huge difference in size, Yanhuo Village and the Kingdom have an equal cooperative relationship.

In the territory of Yanhuo Village, Bai Zhen does not need to be respectful to people from the kingdom.

Frank was silent for a moment, then he bowed and apologized politely: "I'm sorry, I was rude, please forgive me."

Seeing Frank apologize frankly, Bai Zhen roughly knew what kind of person Frank was.

This person is generally a good person, but he has a very high self-esteem in the field of winemaking and wine tasting.

This is somewhat similar to the scholars from the Royal Paleontological Scribes that Bai Zhen had met before.

Bai Zhen waved his hand and responded: "I forgive your rude behavior. Please wait a moment. I will go and get the wine I want to trade today."

Bai Zhen originally brought two chairs, but in the end only Frank sat down, while Rodna stood aside waiting.

After a while, Bai Zhen took the lead and brought a 25L "space barrel". With the raw beer inside, this space barrel weighed about 50 kilograms.

The space barrel is a logistics barrel for cold chain transportation of beer. The entire barrel is made of special biodegradable plastic.

The barrel body is protected by two layers of PET plastic, and inside the barrel body is a sterile vacuum bag used to hold wine. When the barrel body is full of pressure, the plastic barrel body will become very hard.

In the middle of the plastic, there was the Richen Farm logo and beer introduction customized by Bai Zhen.

The color scheme of the entire space barrel is black and gold. The barrel body is black, and the text used on the barrel and the logo of Richen Farm are all light gold.

In today's era where almost everyone uses oak barrels or ceramic jars, the black and gold space barrel looks grand and very recognizable.

Frank looked at the space barrel that Bai Zhen brought up, and looked it up and down with some curiosity.

This bucket looks pretty good.

Frank identified the words on the barrel and read out the name: "[Sunday No. 1] Original Beer?"

"Yes, this is the original beer I launched specially for the royal family."

"Beer specially supplied to the royal family? What a joke!" Frank looked at Bai Zhen with a gloomy face.

It’s no wonder that Frank reacted so strongly. Royal nobles usually drink wine. They hardly drink beer. Beer is mostly a drink for civilians and hunters.

Bai Zhen ignored Frank. He took out the beer tap that was specially connected to the space barrel and connected it to the top of the space barrel. Then he took a beer glass from the tray brought by Fey the Cat beside him. After taking a glass of beer, Bai Zhen used the cold breath technique to turn the beer into ice-cold beer.

Bai Zhen handed it to Rodna and said, "Try it. This wine is more than twice as good as the wine you brew yourself."

Rodna saw that Bai Zhen did not give the first glass of wine to Frank, but to herself.

She gave an awkward smile, took the wine glass from Bai Zhen, and did not let Bai Zhen down. She thanked him and took a big sip from the beer glass.

As soon as the beer went down her throat, Rodna's eyes suddenly lit up.

This beer has a very mellow taste, fresh flavor and strong aroma. The bitterness and the faint mint aroma in the beer, coupled with the perfect ice temperature, make this beer taste mellow and extremely refreshing.

Rodna looked at the glass in her hand in disbelief. She licked her lips, then impatiently drank the beer in the glass in one breath.

Even the rich foam was not wasted by Rodna, who drank it all up.

"Wow~ This is so delicious! How did you make it?"

Rodna looked at Bai Zhen in surprise.

Before she drank it, she had no idea that the wine would be so delicious!
Compared to Bai Zhen's beer, the beer she had drunk in the past was really terrible! It was even worse than horse urine!
"The brewing process is not much different from yours, except for the differences in technology and materials. I have tested the beer you sell to Yanhuo Village before. The alcohol content is less than 1%, and the original wort concentration is less than 4°P. My beer has an alcohol content of 7%, and the original wort concentration reaches 28.5°P."

[°P] is the abbreviation unit of original wort concentration, which refers to the content of fermentable sugar in the raw materials before fermentation.

The higher the concentration of the original wort before fermentation, the higher the alcohol content of the finished product and the mellower the taste.

The original wort concentration of beer brewed with Lv.7 barley is naturally much higher than that of beer in the previous life.

Bai Zhen had drunk the beer that Rodna sold to the Yanhuo Village Assembly Hall not long ago.

The beer tasted no different from plain water, and was even lighter and more unpalatable than the so-called "industrial water beer" in previous lives.

The industrial water beer of the previous life is a rare delicacy in this world, not to mention the beer launched by their Richen Winery.

"Alcohol content? Original wort concentration?" There is no such standard in the kingdom now, so Rodna was naturally confused.

After Bai Zhen explained to Rodna, Rodna was still a little confused.

But Frank on the side understood.

Seeing that she couldn't understand it, Rodna simply stopped thinking about it. She held the wine glass in both hands and asked Bai Zhen: "Can I have another glass?"

"Of course you can, but be careful not to get drunk. The alcohol content of this wine is much higher than yours."

"It's okay! I can drink a lot!"

Rodna took the cup and took another one.

Just as Bai Zhen helped Rodna cool down the wine, Frank swallowed his saliva, with a little bit of desire in his eyes.

Rodna drank another glass in one breath, looking very satisfied.

Bai Zhen asked Rodna: "How about this wine being supplied exclusively to the royal family of the kingdom?"

"No problem at all! I think Her Majesty the Queen would definitely like it if she tried it. This is no longer wine, but more like a work of art called wine!"

Rodna gave it very high praise.

"Now that you've said that, I feel relieved. Next, I want you to try the [Draught] beer. This is a beer brewed using new technology and has very obvious advantages."

Bai Zhen pretended to put away the barrel of raw beer.

At this time, Frank couldn't help it and said quickly: "Please wait a moment, I am the wine taster sent by the Queen. I am obliged to check all the wine goods sold to the royal family."

Bai Zhen then looked at Frank and said, "Sir Frank, do you want to taste it too? From what you just said, this beer is not worth tasting at all."

"I," Frank was speechless, he said stubbornly, "I have an obligation to taste the wine presented to the royal family."

"That's not necessary. I believe in the products of our winery, and I also believe that Knight Rodna will help me convey them accurately to Her Majesty the Queen."

After drinking two glasses of beer from Bai Zhen, Rodna naturally chimed in: "Baron Frank, if you are not satisfied with this mission, you can return to the transport ship and wait."

Bai Zhen secretly said in his heart, "As expected." He also wondered why Rodna, as a knight, would be so respectful to a wine taster. It turned out that Frank was a minor noble with a title.

Frank looked a little unhappy.

Rodna continued, "Mr. Bai Zhen is not only a farmer, but also an honorary doctor of the Royal Paleontological Scribe Corps. Even Her Majesty the Queen should treat Mr. Bai Zhen with courtesy, but you did so many rude things to Mr. Bai Zhen, which really damaged the reputation of the royal family. No matter how you want to advise Her Majesty the Queen afterwards, I am willing to bear all the consequences."

I heard that Bai Zhen is actually an honorary doctor.

Frank's eyes changed when he looked at Bai Zhen.

He didn't expect that Bai Zhen was so young and actually a doctor. Frank's expression changed again, and he finally sighed in his heart. He apologized to Bai Zhen again, but this time his apology was very sincere, and he looked completely convinced.

Bai Zhen didn't expect that the identity of a doctor would be so useful.

Frank requested, "Mr. Bai Zhen, please let me taste the winery's work."

Since Frank said so, Bai Zhen also accepted a glass of beer for Frank.

After just one drink, Frank looked at Bai Zhen in surprise: "You only used barley as the raw material? If it is raw beer, why doesn't your raw beer look so turbid? What filtering method did you use?"

Frank is indeed an expert. After taking a glass, he knew that this wine was made with only one raw material.

And I also know that Bai Zhen used a more special filtering method.

Bai Zhen saw that there was only a clear desire for knowledge in Frank's eyes, and he also explained to Frank the methods he used in the brewing process.

"After the beer is mashed, I filter it very carefully, and then after boiling and adding hops, I use the vortex sedimentation method."

Bai Zhen told Frank in detail about his winemaking process.

Rodna didn't understand what was going on. She quietly took another beer and drank it while waiting.

After drinking it, she felt a little dizzy. This wine was more intoxicating than any she had drunk before.

After Bai Zhen finished talking with Frank, the look in Frank's eyes when he looked at Bai Zhen again had turned into admiration.

Bai Zhen's winemaking technology is indeed more advanced than that of their kingdom.

Frank exclaimed: "What an amazing technique!"

Bai Zhen smiled and said, "It's too early to be surprised now."

Bai Zhen grabbed Rodna who wanted to drink her fourth cup. Bai Zhen took the beer barrel and said, "There will be a lot of beer for you to try later. If you want to drink, wait until the transaction is over and then drink slowly."

Being stopped by Bai Zhen, Rodna took back her wine glass awkwardly: "Because it tasted so good, I accidentally drank too much."

Bai Zhen put the space barrel aside, and then pushed over a 100L stainless steel wine barrel, which was also black and gold in color.

Bai Zhen patted the barrel and said, "This barrel of wine can be stored for at least half a year, and it does not need to be refrigerated."

"Preserved for more than half a year?" Frank asked in surprise, "Is this aged beer?"

Bai Zhen smiled mysteriously and asked the cats to bring the sample barrel he had prepared earlier.

After connecting the wine dispenser, Bai Zhen poured another glass for the two of them.

Frank looked at the dense white foam in the glass and asked, "Why is there so much foam? Is this draft beer?"

Because cooked beer is sterilized by high temperature, it usually does not have much foam.

In the Monster Hunter world, brewed beer is sterilized by boiling, and there is no foam.

Frank drank half a cup under Bai Zhen's gaze.

He said, "Isn't this just draft beer?"

Draft beer does not taste as fresh and delicious as original beer because the yeast and impurities are filtered out, but the taste is not that different. At most, it is 20% less delicious.

If you use boiling method to mature beer, the taste will probably drop by 30% to 40%, and it will only be half as good at best.

"No, this is sterilized beer." Bai Zhen then turned the barrel and showed the name of the beer to Frank.

Frank: "[Richen Pure Draft No. 1] beer? Pure draft? What is this?"

"This is beer made with special microfiltration technology and a sterile brewing process to ensure pure yeast. It not only maintains the taste of draft beer, but also takes into account the shelf life of cooked beer."

"Microfiltration technology???" This was naturally the first time Frank had heard of this technology.

The pure draft brewing technology is also one of the winery's technologies. Bai Zhen did not reveal it to Frank in full detail, but only briefly explained the principles behind it.

After hearing this, Frank had never imagined that beer making had such a complicated process.

Rodna was not as concerned about the technology of beer as Frank. She was concerned about the shelf life and the stainless steel barrels that held the beer.

As a long-term sourcing agent in various places, she knows best how important a long shelf life and a relatively hard wine barrel that is stainless, acid-resistant and very important are.

The long shelf life and convenient transportation mean that this wine can not only be sold in the royal capital, but can also be sold to more distant places.

With such excellent beer, there will definitely be no worries about sales!
Rodna asked Bai Zhen how much the beer cost, and Bai Zhen directly quoted: "100L pure draft beer, 2 gold per barrel, I have 223 barrels in total."

After hearing Bai Zhen's offer, the two of them spoke in unison.

Rodna: “It’s a bit expensive.”

Frank: “So cheap!”

The two people look at this price from different perspectives.

Bai Zhenyan said: "The raw materials used in this wine are very good. I could have used it to make vodka or other wines. If I can't make this little money, then it's better for me to make other wines."

A barrel of pure draft beer costs 2 gold, which is equivalent to 1 gold per liter. According to the beer cups that hunters use, each cup is 200ml, so one cup costs 500 gold.

This is still the wholesale price. When Rodna is shipped back to China, plus the logistics costs, etc., the wine will cost about 200 gold per cup to consumers, or even more.

After all, 1 kilogram of barley can brew 4 to 5 kilograms of beer, and beer does not need to be matured like whiskey and wine. If the price is too high, it will be difficult to sell.

Of course, Bai Zhen could also set the wholesale price higher to squeeze Rodna's profit margin.

Anyway, the wine is so good that Rodna will most likely buy it, but that will also increase Rodna's sales pressure suddenly. After a long time, Rodna might not be willing to purchase it.

Bai Zhen was still clear that if his wine was sold in the Pokémon world, the wholesale price might be less than half of what it is here.

Bai Zhen naturally needs to spend time maintaining and cultivating the market here.

Bai Zhen tempted Rodna, "This wine retains a very good flavor and can be stored for a long time without refrigeration. If you put a little thought into it, you can develop a large market."

Rodna finally agreed. She looked at the stainless steel barrel and asked, "What about this barrel?"

"I'll charge you an extra 1000 gold for each barrel."

1000 gold is the cost price that Bai Zhen bought it for. If Rodna recycles it and sells it, she should be able to make a small profit of about or hunter gold.

Rodna naturally agreed immediately.

"What about these purees?"

"The barrels of this beer are very expensive, and the quality is very different from this pure draft beer. I charge 25 yuan for this 5L barrel. I won't charge you for this space barrel, because this barrel cannot be recycled."

This price is almost 10 times that of pure draft beer.

But it is worth the price. These raw beers are of legendary quality, while other pure draft beers are of high and special quality. Naturally, there is a very obvious difference in taste.

Rodna finally agreed to this offer.

Afterwards, Bai Zhen also let Rodna and Frank taste the gin. Bai Zhen named this gin very simply "Diamond". If other types of wine are launched in the future, they will be named after other gems.

Bai Zhen quoted a price of 750 gold for a 800ml bottle of gin, which is not much different from the price of a 1000ml or 1000 gold bottle of vodka.

Lv.4 [Original] red wine was not a limited edition and was of high quality, so Bai Zhen sold it for 700 gold per bottle. 900 bottles of red wine were sold for 63 gold.

Lv.7's [Absolutely Pure] Vodka, 2650 bottles, sold for 265 million.

Lv.7 [Diamond] Gin, 5250 bottles (some kept for himself), sold for 420 million.

Lv.7's [Pure Draft No. 1] beer, 223 barrels, sold for 468 million.

Lv.7 [Original No. 1] beer, 90 barrels, 450 million.

On that day alone, Bai Zhen earned 1666 million.

Now he has money to do exclusive refreshes.

In just one or two months, he would be able to earn 3000 million and let Shuiyun wear the clothes he bought for her.

(End of this chapter)