Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 196 Quality

While tasting the famous wines at each booth, Wen Qing also took the opportunity to consult experts at each exhibition and felt that she gained a lot.

After shopping for a few days, Wen Qing made a judgment in his mind that strong-aroma, light-aroma and sauce-aroma liquors are the future development direction. However, in order to stand out among a number of well-known liquors, it is necessary to select the raw materials carefully, whether it is the raw materials for brewing wine or the raw materials for making koji, the best must be selected; secondly, the brewing process must be refined to highlight the characteristics. The cellar aroma of Meizhou Laojiao, the bright fragrance of Jiannanchun and the aged fragrance of Wuliangye are all the distinctive characteristics that make them famous.

After the Food and Drinks Fair, Changxia Liquor signed more than 118 orders with a total volume of tons. According to customer feedback from Liuquan, although their Changxia Liquor cannot catch up with old famous liquors such as Wuliangye, it is similar to Duguan Liquor and Zhijiang Liquor, and the price is even cheaper.

Wen Qing stocked up a batch of famous liquors and told Liu Quan about it. She then returned to the capital with some people. She planned to go back and work with Wang Jianguo and Wang Guozhang to further study and improve the brewing process of Changxia liquor, and make sure to create their own characteristics.

After returning home, despite the long journey, she immediately went to the winery, gathered Wang Jianguo, Wang Guozhang and the technicians together, took out seven or eight kinds of strong-flavored liquors such as Wuliangye, Meizhou Laojiao and Jiannanchun, poured them into cups, and asked everyone to taste them one by one and tell the advantages of these wines.

He also compared it with Changxia Special Brewing and expressed his own feelings and the problems with Changxia Special Brewing.

After tasting, Wang Jianguo said: "Wuliangye, Jiannanchun and Changxia Special Brew are all brewed with multiple grains. Their wines have aged aroma, which is a complex aroma and full body. Our wine has a slightly worse aged aroma, the body is not so full, and the layers of wine flavor are not so many. When it comes to the advantages of Changxia wine, it is the pure taste, or clean and refreshing."

Wang Guozhang said: "Meizhou Laojiao is brewed with single grains and adopts the original cellar method. It has a strong cellar aroma. Changxia wine is slightly inferior in mellowness."

Jin Zicong is in charge of the old wine shop and has always been interested in the brewing of strong-flavor liquor. "Changxia Special Brewing uses multiple grains, running cellars, and medium-temperature koji. I think we can lower the brewing temperature in the future and adopt long-term low-temperature fermentation. At the same time, can we adopt three steaming and three turnings when steaming the wine?"

Wang Guozhang nodded: "That makes sense. After the three steamings, the wines are collected separately, and different base wines are aged in separate jars. When blending, the variety of base wine is increased, thereby increasing the level of the wine and making the wine fuller. The soaking method can also keep the aroma uniform."

Wang Jianguo: "We use five kinds of grains when brewing. Our grains are of very good quality. Can we slightly adjust the grain ratio? Reduce the proportion of corn and increase the proportion of sorghum? This will make the wine more flavorful and have a long aftertaste."

In the five-grain liquor making process, sorghum contains tannins, which produce aromatic substances such as syringic acid and syringaldehyde after fermentation, which increase the flavor of the liquor. Corn increases the sweetness of the liquor, and rice increases the purity of the liquor. Each of them has its own uses.

The final result of the discussion was that starting from the crushing of the raw materials, each type of grain should be processed separately, and controlled according to the particle size of the grain. For sorghum, the tannin should be reduced and the bitterness should be reduced; the corn germ with a higher oil content should be degermed before reuse to prevent the appearance of foreign flavors; and when soaking and steaming rice, attention should be paid to adding appropriate amount of water to ensure complete fermentation.

Wen Qing asked Wang Jianguo, Wang Guozhang and Tang Lin to try the new five-grain formula and brewing technology respectively, and the three of them went to discuss it themselves. Wen Qing returned to the courtyard, had lunch, went over the mountain to the feed factory, and found Xu Shengli and Zheng Xiaoqiang.

Xu Shengli: "Is Director Wen back?"

Wen Qing asked them about the sales of pig feed.

Xu Shengli: "Now the factory can produce 40 tons of feed every day." This is a significant increase compared to the trial production.

Wen Qing shook her head. "That won't work. The yield is too low. It takes about 300 kilograms of feed to raise a pig to 400 kilograms. If half of that is feed, it will take 200 kilograms. 100 pigs will need 2 kilograms of feed, which is 20 tons. According to the current production situation, the feed produced by our factory is only enough to feed more than 700 pigs. If each pig eats more feed, it will still not be able to feed 700 pigs. Think about it, how many pigs are raised near us?"

Wen Qing inspected the operations of each workshop and pointed out: "This production line has not been cleaned for 5 days. Who is responsible?"

Xu Shengli took the record and found that the last cleaning was five days ago. His face darkened and he asked, "Who is responsible for this?"

The workshop director blushed and explained that it was because they had not cleaned the equipment during the past few days due to overtime work. Xu Shengli became even angrier. Why did they have to work overtime when the daily output was so low? It was decided on the spot that the workers in charge of cleaning, the technicians in charge of inspection, and the workshop director would all have their bonuses deducted and be criticized in the factory.

Wen Qing said: "Feed is most likely to become moldy and spoil. If there is a safety problem, it will seriously affect the reputation of the factory. This is something we cannot tolerate."

Wen Qing, Xu Shengli and Zheng Xiaoqiang returned to the office together to discuss how to increase production.

The designed production capacity of the feed factory is 2 tons per year, or 1700 tons per month. Now it is only 1000 tons, which is only 60% of the goal. This is absolutely unreasonable.

Xu Shengli analyzed that the main problems were that the employees were lazy, the workshop managers did not dare to take charge, the production process was not very reasonable, and there were problems such as equipment idling. Secondly, the efficiency of grain organization was not high, and there were problems such as downtime waiting for grain. Thirdly, the market was not open, and they were afraid that the feed produced could not be sold, resulting in a backlog.

Zheng Xiaoqiang had just joined the feed factory and didn’t know much about the situation, so he just listened quietly at the side.

Wen Qing asked: "Is there a problem with the product formula? How palatable is it to pigs?"

Zheng Xiaoqiang: "I've visited nearby pig farmers and found that the pigs still like to eat, but the villagers are reluctant to feed them too much. Most pig farmers still feed them green fodder and roughage."

Wen Qing nodded, "You should set up a few more control groups, and let the villagers know the benefits of feeding feed with facts."

After discussing production, Wen Qing called a meeting with the personnel department. Wen Qing asked them to develop an employee salary assessment plan and asked the personnel department to recruit drivers. She took out two trucks and gave them to the factory to transport grain. At the same time, she asked the workshop to implement a two-shift system, with the day shift from 2 am to 8 pm and the night shift from 4 pm to 3 am, with equipment being cleaned in the second half of the night.

The cleaning process she designed is fully automated. When workers get off work, they only need to open the cleaning valve and the equipment will automatically clean and dry.

Wen Qing also asked Zheng Xiaoqiang to bring technicians to adjust parameters, speed up the operation of each production link, carry out worker training, and improve production efficiency.

Wen Qing didn't expect that there would be problems with the feed factory's production. She was careless.

Xu Shengli used to be the chief financial officer of the commune, and Zheng Xiaoqiang had just arrived. Both of them had no experience in workshop management. She thought that as long as the feed formula was determined and the production was automated, she would be able to produce the products she needed. However, she did not expect the problem of production not meeting the standards.

Wen Qing envisions that the output will reach 2 tons in the first three years, mainly due to raw material issues. Three years later, the country should relax grain imports, and with the increase in grain production, the raw material problem will be solved, and the feed factory's output will reach 5 tons.

When the time comes, she will add a feed production line.