Chapter 1093 – [The True Story]

There are three main types of beer. No, if you classify it in detail and enter, there are many dirty types, but once you divide it into a large category, it is divided into three categories according to the fermentation method.

First, naturally fermented Langvik, or Lambic.

Second, top-fermented ale.

Lastly, it is a lager that is fermented.

Ordinary people may have heard of ale or lager, but they may not be familiar with lambic, but this one has its own strengths and tastes that are not included in one of the beer categories for nothing. However, it is hard to make because it is naturally fermented without adding yeast.

Or why don’t we mass-produce such good things in the world these days? That’s because it’s not that cost-effective.

Anyway, the first beer that Eden and I will make is lager. This lager beer is what you usually think of when you think of beer and cool down your throat.

“Bottom fermentation, which makes lager, means that the yeast will sink to the bottom by fermenting at a low temperature.”

“Then top fermentation is the opposite? But isn’t it difficult to control if the yeast floats up and down depending on the temperature difference?”

“In fact, the yeast used for ale and lager are different. So you don’t have to worry about Eden’s worries.”

As a result, it is said that it is a phenomenon caused by the temperature at which the yeast is active, whether it is on the upper or lower surface. Well, it doesn’t matter these days, hybrid beers that mix the two are also trending.

As the times progress, this is good. For better or worse, there are dishes and drinks that are like trial and error, and among them, there are also trends.

It’s a welcome thing for me. Originally, human history was built up in that way.

“Let’s make some beer first. First, we have to water the barley harvested in our field with water so that it sprouts and turns it into malt.”

“Isn’t that malt~? Why are you using it for sikhye?”

“That’s right. When grains sprout, they contain a lot of amylase, and they use that to decompose carbohydrates and turn them into maltose to give the sweet taste of sweet rice wine. Didn’t Eden learn science in school, too?”

“Amylase? Isn’t it amylase?”

“Uh…They’re both the same, but as time goes on, it seems like the names they teach change as well.”

What is the generation gap with Eden here?! Well, there is a time difference between when Eden was in school and when I was in school, but it could change.

Anyway, malt, or amylase from malt… No, amylase… Ah, I don’t know. Let’s just call it amylase in modern terms. Anyway, amylase of malt decomposes carbohydrates of grain into malt sugar, and yeast eats such malt sugar and produces alcohol and carbon dioxide to make beer as we know it.

It sounds complicated, but if you think about it in detail, it’s simple. The important thing is malt and yeast. It’s easy to think that malt makes sweets and yeast eats them to produce alcohol and carbonic acid.

Back to beer brewing. Grind the malt once and crush it, then put it in warm water.

“Originally, we add various additives, but it’s better to make the most basic taste first and then give an estimate. There’s no basic frame, so you can’t make it.”

“I see”

There is a big difference between making from zero and having the basics. First of all, it is good to try a beer made without anything added and go through trial and error to find a point to complement in the taste.

The malt put in warm water is stirred well to make the enzyme action work well. The amylase in malt breaks down carbohydrates into maltose.

And if you think it’s to a certain extent, you get the malts that you’ve seen from there. The brewed beer undiluted solution is boiled once and hops are added along with the yeast.

[Hop!!! Hop!!!! This is the hop I recommend!!!!]

“Ummm… I like this one. It has a lemony scent and a bitter taste. But this would be better with ale. Well, is it okay?”

Hops are the ingredient that gives beer its aroma and bitter taste. Funnily enough, it is also called Hop.

However, unlike that, it is not the etymology of the hop house, which means draft beer house, but the hop of the hop house is the German word for yard or garden. That’s because they usually drink beer there.

It’s not related, but it’s a funny coincidence, right? Learning to cook is fun.

We put the hops and yeast Keter gave us into the undiluted beer, boiled it, cooled it down, and poured it into a barrel for aging. For reference, there is an important thing, but the barrel must be disinfected well. Otherwise, the taste will be lost.

A space that is good for yeast to grow is also good for other fungi to grow. If such germs remain, the sour taste of other germs will enter during fermentation.

All that remains is maturation. The beer stored in the barrel was placed in a place out of sunlight and matured on a weekly basis to complete the beer.

“I want to drink quickly”

“I wonder how much alcohol my daughter will drink when the limiter is lifted when she becomes an adult”

“I’m going to rob a liquor store with my dad’s card”

“No!!! Then it’s a bit scary!!!!”

It’s not that I’m afraid to spend money, but I’m afraid of my daughter bringing a bottle of alcohol. She must drink as much as she eats.

Taking it is not a problem. At that point, Eden’s metabolism won’t be comparable to that of an ordinary human, and he’ll be able to get drunk in an instant. To be honest, being hard to get drunk is not so bad from the point of view of a person who likes to drink, but that’s something that can be solved later if you can control your physical abilities.

A few weeks after that The long-awaited first beer has been completed.

“Ohhhhh!!! Opening soon!!!!”

“You should drink it chilled first. Cold beer is best.”

Put it in the fridge for a while to chill, then pour the beer into a glass.

First of all, the color was a slightly dark golden yellow. Thanks to this, it is not transparent, but it feels heavy. In addition, compared to the lesser scent of regular lagers, this one had a refreshing lemon scent with sparkling carbonation.

I wondered if we made an ale, not a lager, but it wasn’t. The amount of carbonation was definitely lager.

“Is it because of the hops Keter gave me? The scent is strong.”

“The important thing is the taste!!!!”

“Okay, let’s have a drink… Ah, Eden, shouldn’t you drink too much? Have a drink.”

“Huh, just one drink?”

“Even if you bring me a bigger glass instead, I won’t tell you”

“You should bring the biggest glass in the house!!!!!”

Eden clattered in the kitchen looking for a glass, and then brought the biggest glass in our house. It is a cup large enough to compare with a 1000cc beer cup.

Our Eden made a decision today. Let’s leave it for a while. It’s a beer that I used to drink like that, but I’d like to drink that much.

“Then Eden, cheers”

“Cheers!!!!!”

After pouring beer into Eden’s glass, Eden and I toast each other and taste the beers.

My first impression of the taste was that it was sweet. While feeling the refreshing feeling of cool carbonation unique to lager, I felt the savory taste of beer with the scent of strong lemon, and I felt the sweetness from there.

It’s like burnt honey… But it doesn’t have that artificial taste. This is a taste derived from the sweetness of pure barley.

Gulp, the carbonic acid bouncing through the throat made the flavor of the beer even more delicious, and after drinking it, I felt the unique bitter taste of hops.

Delicious. Obviously delicious The identity of the beer was so mixed that I couldn’t tell if it was lager or ale, but after drinking it all, it was a taste that made me thirsty.

“The first taste is sweet, but the aftertaste is bitter, so I feel like I want to keep drinking it.”

“Is not it?”

I didn’t add sugar or anything sweet, but I could taste the sweetness. The sweetness greets the tongue for the first time, and the bitterness after passing is washed away, so the more you drink, the more you want to drink.

It was a pity that we were the only ones drinking this, so we passed it on to all our family members. It’s made for demonstration purposes anyway, so it’s not as large as I thought, so it’s good to get rid of it right away because drinking a few cups will reveal the floor.

“Hmm, it tastes good. I think it will be popular with women because of its sweetness.”

“Maybe it’s because it’s made with the barley grown by Eden. Even after making it, it seems to have quite a bit of sweetness left. Is this the original characteristic? To add a bitter taste, should I make it with dark beer…”

[Wouldn’t it be better to set the maturation period longer? It’s probably less ripe, so the sweetness remains.]

“It may have to be that way. I made this for a demonstration in the first place, so I’ll have to go through more trial and error in the future.”

“Still, this is delicious enough, Father.”

“I have to make it again next time!!!! All that remains is to follow the fermentation method and the combination of yeast and hops to make the best beer!!!!”

“My daughter. Even if you think about it, I don’t think it’s a joke.”

“Oh, that’s right. Come to think of it, there was also wheat beer!!!!!”

“I don’t know who resembles someone who likes to cook like that.”

“No matter how much I do, I don’t think of experimenting with tens of thousands of combinations.”

It’s different between setting a specific goal and trying to meet it, and trying everything out and picking the best one out of them. At least, the former had a clear goal and the latter was a labor without a promise.

But Eden is in good shape. If you think about it, I made hundreds of times to match the proportions the last time I made Obang Yanggaeng. He eats all the failures.

I think it is very fortunate that Eden has the habit of working hard together with his talent. Since the level of a transcendentalist cannot be reached only with talent, I would have worried about various things if I hadn’t had the habit of working hard.

He made and drank delicious beer, but Eden’s beer life had just begun.

………I wonder how much our Eden will really drink later.

*        *    *

I thought of it because I was drinking, but like Eden, I was still underage, but I thought of a kid who would drink. Now Ji-hee is living her life enjoying freedom.

“Hello uncle!”

“Yes, Jihee. Welcome. Oh, I have something to talk about, so sit there for a while.”

“Anything to talk about?”

In fact, unlike Eden, who made and drank herself, Ji-hee, who will become an adult after a while, if she drinks now, she will be caught as a drinking underage.

But we can do something about celebrating a little earlier. Originally, as an adult next year, I decided to celebrate myself getting out of the house and getting freedom, and I decided to have a drink, but I already got freedom.

Besides, there were hard things, so there must be good things as well. After finishing the store, you can have a drink while celebrating in a small way and drive to the officetel.

“I’m still underage, but wouldn’t it be a big deal if I was caught drinking?”

“So, let’s do it after business. How about it?”

“Fairy tears exchanged for Garden of Eden are…”

“I’ll save that for next year’s New Year’s celebration. Today, the old man shoots.”

“Then fine”

Today’s business is over, and I’ve brought out the grandly prepared snacks. Ji-hee’s favorite Italian dish was served as a full course.

I cook so much that my identity has become very thin, but if Korean food is what I am best at, then Italian food is the second best. What country do you think my first playthrough wife, Ana, is from?

Thanks to that, Ji-hee, who has a lot of interest in Italian cuisine, was amazed at the dishes lined up on the table.

“Wow!!! There are some things I can recognize, but there are also things I don’t know. What is this? It looks like a croquette.”

“It’s like fried rice balls called arancini. It’ll be salty with ragu sauce inside.”

Today’s main drink, Fairy Tears, is sweet because it’s fruit wine. Even though the alcohol content is close to 40 degrees, it does not have a strong taste due to its sweetness, so there are times when working youngsters spend a lot of money to order a bottle. It’s sweet, so women like it, and it’s easy to drink, but it’s high in alcohol, so it goes away. It’s like a lady killer.

Of course, at that time, I will take care of it separately. Somewhere to use our store and alcohol to do some tweaking.

With a good snack, I took out fairy tears. Upon opening the lid, a subtle and rich fruity scent began to spread throughout the store.

“It smells really good… I’ve smelled it when I was working part-time at a store, but something feels different.”

“Because you’re the only customer right now. Besides, the smell you smell while working is different from the smell you smell while appreciating it.”

What matters is the difference in leisure. And most of all, Ji-hee is now free.

I poured the capped fairy tears into a wine glass. With a good sound, a beautiful light blue liquid is poured into the bottle.

Even so, the rich fragrance spreads even more. The inside of the store was filled with sweets, so it felt like I was in cotton candy.

“What about you? Have a drink, too.”

“Okay then”

Actually, I wasn’t going to drink today, but the other side recommended it, so I’m going to take it.

I brought a glass and received a drink from Jihee. It’s such a good drink that I think I can just drink it without cooking.

“Then, in celebration of your freedom, Ji-hee”

“Yes, congratulations on not having to be tied down by your parents.”

Crack!

Drink with a light toast. It is said that I often drink it, but Ji-hee always relishes her appetite and is not able to drink it. Ji-hee, who was the first to touch such fairy tears, emptied her glass at once, even though it was her first time drinking.

I didn’t pour that much, but it must have been a lot more than a couple of glasses of soju.

“It’s so delicious!!! It’s sweet and refreshing, so it doesn’t taste like alcohol at all!!”

“Even though it looks like that, the alcohol is too strong. If you drink it at that pace, it’s like a hook at once?”

“Oh, like the film cuts out or something like that?”

“Yes. The uncle can give you a ride home, but if you become a jerk and don’t say hello, I’ll leave you in the corner of the store, so drink in moderation.”

“It’s a pity that I can’t drink much because I’m afraid I’ll get drunk.”

“Aren’t you thinking of starting something weekly?”

If you drink too much as it is, you will really faint soon, so I made a fairy highball with some of the alcohol. It’s cool and goes well with pizza.

Me and Jihee had a good time talking and drinking. At least this time, because Ji-hee enjoys it without much trouble, her mind is relaxed and she enjoys cooking and drinking at a leisurely pace.

Then I saw the scar on Jihee’s arm. The wounds caused by self-injury had healed to some extent by applying medicine and disinfection, but they were still visible on closer examination.

Later, among the dimensional civilization medicines, I should bring you at least some that are used to erase scars. It’s much better to take a pill than to be heartbroken every time you see it.

“The uncle’s cooking is delicious, but how about the local cuisine?”

“You want to go to Italy? Let me introduce you to the acquaintance I mentioned before. Then you can go and travel comfortably.”

“Right now I really want to go and I have some money, but I’m a bit scared to go alone.”

“At that time, you should either go with a friend. Or make a boyfriend and go.

“Boyfriend…”

I tilted my glass, ignoring Jihee’s stare at me.

Is it because of the environment? Somehow, it seems that the taste of the opposite sex is a bit skewed, but that’s something I can’t help.

I can’t help but be interested in the opposite sex who took good care of me when I was in my adolescence, but that’s a problem because I’m the father of my baby. Ah, is there such a thing as the appearance of a 20-year-old? There are times when being young is a minus.

“I wish I could look like that”

“I mean”

I really wish it looked like it. Honestly, this is sincere. Not in any other sense, but for the sake of peace in our home.

I don’t want to be ripped off by Shion for being taller!!!!