Strong-Aroma Baijiu · FFET10072
Mianzhu Baijiu Traditional Brewing Craft
The Mianzhu baijiu brewing craft was chosen for the second national heritage batch, and its page calls it an important example of strong-aroma baijiu.
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.
On the China Intangible Cultural Heritage website, the item "Distilled Liquor Traditional Brewing Techniques (Jiannanchun Liquor Traditional Brewing Techniques)" is a traditional craft declared by Mianzhu, Sichuan, and was added to the second batch of the national representative list in 2008. The item page says it "is regarded as an important representative of Chinese strong-aroma baijiu", is made from five grains (glutinous rice, rice, wheat, sorghum and maize), and begins with a medium-high-temperature wheat qu. It adds that eleven fermentation pits at an old distillery, built in the early Kangxi years of the Qing, "still work today".