Strong-Aroma Baijiu · FFET10046
Strong-Aroma Baijiu Brewing Craft
Among strong-aroma baijiu, the item “Luzhou Laojiao Liquor Brewing Techniques” entered the first national heritage batch in 2006.
A hand tips fermented grain from a wooden scoop into a steaming wooden vat, spirit runs from a bamboo pipe into a clay jar below, and baskets of grain and a wooden bucket with a ladle stand around it.
Baijiu of the strong aroma, fermented in mud pits and marked by the fragrance of the pit.
The item “Luzhou Laojiao Liquor Brewing Techniques” on the China Intangible Cultural Heritage website is a traditional craft declared from Luzhou, Sichuan, and was added to the first batch of the national representative list in 2006. The item page classes the liquor as a strong-aroma baijiu, says Luzhou's liquor trade began in the Qin and Han, grew in the Tang and Song and flourished in the Ming and Qing, and mentions four old fermentation pits in the city with a history of more than four hundred years.