Li Jianwei / Heart of sake 03: let the brewing of sake in the place become the practice of diversified rice culture! Four key elements need to be broken through

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"sake Heart" returned to Taiwan in 2016, and what it wants to learn in Japan to practice is a process from scratch. Of course, it faces many problems and difficulties, but it also finds a way to brew in Taiwan when facing problems.

A patchwork from the beginning

In fact, the brewing of sake in Taiwan began during the Japanese occupation period, and it has been more than 100 years since the Japanese brought sake to Taiwan. in the early days, most of the sake was "remade sake" with molasses alcohol. later, the Japanese people and the government invested more resources in the production of high-grade sake, such as "butterfly orchid". Stem rice shipped from Kyushu, Japan, mixed with Taiwan rice as raw materials, and even some high-grade sake was sold back to Japan in the later period. During this period, the Japanese introduced a lot of sake brewing technology to improve the level and quality of brewing, and brewing began to enter the production mode of scale and capitalization.

However, after the end of World War II, the National Government came to Taiwan, cut off the accumulated Japanese wine-making technology and culture, and took the production of Chinese yellow rice wine and liquor as the mainstream brewing. It was not until 1997 that the Public Marketing Bureau used Penglai rice as raw material to produce "Yuquan sake" for sale. Until 2002, in response to internationalization and liberalization, the government opened up the tobacco and alcohol production system.

The Wufeng Farmers' Association in Taichung introduced Japanese technology and used Yiquan fragrant rice to launch a series of sake called "Chu Wu". The Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Company also launched sake such as "Beauty of Taiwan" and "Chrysanthemum Fuji." Taiwan gradually regained its interest in brewing sake. Since some people in Taiwan are already brewing sake, what else needs to be practiced?

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