Strong-Aroma Baijiu · FFET10073
Chengdu Baijiu Traditional Brewing Craft
The Chengdu baijiu brewing craft was chosen for the second national heritage batch, and its page says it still uses a pit group over six hundred years old.
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 (Shuijingfang Liquor Traditional Brewing Techniques)" is a traditional craft declared by Chengdu, Sichuan, and was added to the second batch of the national representative list in 2008; the protection unit is Shuijingfang Co., Ltd. The item page says the craft "has distinctive features among strong-aroma baijiu brewing techniques", still uses "an ancient group of fermentation pits more than six hundred years old", and ferments and distils by "the original-pit layered mash-stacking method".