Hengshui Laobaigan traditional brewing technique

Hebei
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Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor Brewing is the leading industry of Hebei Yufeng Industrial Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Yufeng Company). Yufeng Company is located in the southern suburbs of Hengshui City in the southeast of the North China Plain. It is backed by the Fuyang River in the north, with green trees, fresh air and excellent water quality. It has a unique natural environment for brewing liquor. Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor is a typical representative of the Laobaigan flavor of Chinese liquor. It has a typical style of mellow and elegant fragrance, harmonious body, mellow and sweet, and long aftertaste. Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor uses high-quality Northeast sorghum as raw material, and uses the medium-temperature Daqu made by natural inoculation and controlled fermentation of local high-quality wheat in the qu room as saccharification and fermentation agent. It adopts the traditional continuous cropping ingredients, mixed steaming and mixed burning old five-steamer manual crafts, ground tank fermentation, slow fire distillation, segmented wine pinching, graded storage, pottery jar storage, and careful blending. For thousands of years, she has been passed down from generation to generation in the way of oral transmission and master-apprentice inheritance, and has been continuously innovated and developed. It is a skill that cannot be replaced by modern technology. Hengshui Laobaigan, brewed with traditional techniques, is a model of inheritance and development of high-quality Daqu liquor in northern China, and is also a representative liquor of the Laobaigan flavor of Chinese liquor. With its unique craftsmanship and typical style, it has won many domestic and international awards and a series of national honorary titles. In 1992, Hengshui Laobaigan won the gold medal at the Hong Kong International Food Expo. In 2004, it was recognized as a well-known trademark in China by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce; in the same year, the "Laobaigan Fragrance" represented by Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor was approved and confirmed by the National Standards Committee; the company was approved by the National Tourism Administration as one of the first national industrial tourism demonstration sites. In 2006, the company was approved by the Ministry of Commerce as a "Chinese Time-honored Brand", all of which reflect the country's protection and support for Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor Brewing, a national industry and independent intellectual property rights. Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor is a historical and cultural heritage with strong national and local characteristics. It is of great significance to explore and protect the traditional brewing process, vigorously cultivate a team of high-quality and highly skilled traditional skills inheritors, and enable the traditional brewing process of Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor to be passed down from generation to generation.

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