Sauce-Aroma Baijiu · FFET10045
Sauce-Aroma Baijiu Brewing Craft
Among sauce-aroma baijiu, the item “Maotai Liquor Brewing Techniques” entered the first national heritage batch in 2006.
Beside a large jar sealed with red cloth, a hand pours liquor from a long-handled wooden ladle into an earthenware bowl, a few square blocks of qu starter are stacked nearby, and red sorghum grains fill a dish and scatter over the table.
Baijiu of the sauce aroma, known for starter made at a high temperature.
The item “Maotai Liquor Brewing Techniques” on the China Intangible Cultural Heritage website is a traditional craft declared from Guizhou and was added to the first batch of the national representative list in 2006. The item page calls the liquor a daqu sauce-aroma baijiu and places its home by hills and water at an altitude of 450 metres.