Can wheat be used to make wine? How to make wheat semi-solid wine?

Wine culture has been widely used in people's lives since ancient times, and the main way to obtain wine is through brewing. So can wheat be used to make wine? How to brew wheat semi-solid wine? The following editor will explain them one by one, hoping to help everyone.

Can wheat be used to make wine?

Of course wheat can be used to make wine. We can also see wheat as the main ingredient in the wine we usually drink, such as beer. Wheat beer is very delicious. It can also be made into alcohol. It can also be made into liquor, such as the strong liquor called vodka.

Wheat is rich in protein and trace elements. It contains starch, fat, minerals, calcium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, etc. Wheat is one of the three major grains, and almost all of it is used as food. Wheat production is second only to corn, and the wheat wine made from it has a mellow taste and tastes very good. Of course, it is made from malt, which accounts for more than 40% of the total raw materials and nearly 50%.

How to brew wheat semi-solid wine

Select high-quality wheat, wash the dry wheat with clean water, rinse it and drain the water for half an hour, then put it in a pot and add water to steam.

When the wheat is cooked to 80% or 90% done, stop the fire, soak it for an hour, take it out and cool it down. When the temperature drops to about 35 degrees, add the yeast, stir it evenly, put it into the jar and seal it. The highest temperature cannot be higher than 31 degrees and the lowest temperature cannot be lower than 15 degrees. After 20 days of jar keeping, it can be taken out of the jar.

After fermentation, a double-layered vat is used to steam the fermented pulp in a pot. After distillation, the resulting liquor is wine.

How to choose the right grain for brewing

Different grains produce different flavors of wine: sorghum is fragrant, wheat is rough, glutinous rice is soft, rice is clean, and corn is sweet. Sorghum is selected as the best raw material for Chinese liquor brewing because of its high starch content and fruit structure, which is very suitable for brewing. Corn and rice have also become the preferred materials for brewing liquor.