National Beer

It is said that beer was invented by the Sumerians in the Mesopotamia 10,000 years ago.

In later generations, beer brewing mainly included four processes: malting, saccharification, fermentation, and packaging. Modern breweries generally no longer set up malting workshops, and the malting part is gradually separated from the beer production process.

Then, as the first process, saccharification actually uses the biological enzymes contained in the malt to decompose the raw material malt and rice.

Through saccharification, starch is hydrolyzed into maltose, and other small amounts of monosaccharides, trisaccharides, and oligosaccharides. Protein is hydrolyzed into amino acids, and other dipeptides and polypeptides containing two or more amino acid units.

The maltose and amino acids in the wort are absorbed by the yeast, and the yeast itself grows and reproduces, and it metabolizes to produce alcohol and carbon dioxide...

In this way, the wort is transformed into delicious beer. This process is called fermentation. The mature fermented liquid is filtered and sent to the packaging workshop to be filled into beer for sale on the market.

"Daguang, why did you come to our saccharification workshop to clean up when you have time? Drink beer to the bottling workshop." Lu Xuguang also became famous in World War I. When he picked hops, he sang a section of "Cai Hong Ling" that was famous throughout the factory. It also belongs to celebrities in the factory.

"Come and see if you can't do it, you don't want to see it yet." Lu Xuguang smiled and couldn't help but look at the equipment and people in the saccharification workshop.

Saccharification is the first process of beer brewing. The saccharification equipment is also the key equipment of the brewery. It is often the facade of a factory. The saccharification equipment is also a permanent equipment and is very slow to update.

Unlike the bottle washing workshop, it is very clean, but the temperature inside is extremely high, and the air is filled with the smell of a detergent.

Lu Xuguang saw that there were many large stainless steel tanks in operation, and the large tanks in front of them were called three pots and two tanks by the workers, namely: saccharification pot, gelatinization pot, boiling pot, filter tank and sedimentation tank. .

This is the core of the entire saccharification system. The saccharification process is carried out in a closed manner. Water, malt and hops are boiled into wort at high temperature.

"What are you looking at? Go to the technical department. There are many women there." A middle-aged worker quipped.

"I don't look at my girls, I'll come over and see and see if I can save you production or something." Lu Xuguang said in a big deal.

There was silence in the workshop, but a burst of laughter broke out immediately.

"Well, what are you laughing at?" Lu Xuguang also heard the meaning behind the laugh, but his face was thick enough to not be embarrassed.

"Daguang, you sing the duo to transfer us to rest, and we work more vigorously, which can also promote production." Jiao director of the saccharification workshop walked over with a smile, "Everyone, let Daguang give us a section, okay?"

"It's necessary." Lu Xuguang was not annoyed when he wailed his teeth. Many people liked him. "However, I'm here to do business today."

Director Jiao was also a little tired, and he intentionally teased him to let himself rest, "Then Chief Engineer Daguang, do you see where we need to improve?"

Lu Xuguang pretended to be serious, he looked around and looked around, "Director Jiao, which pot is the saccharification pot?"

Wow

There was another burst of laughter in the workshop. Some workers laughed so much that they were out of breath, "Da Guang, this pot is not the same as your cooking pot!"

"Daguang, do you want to help our saccharification workshop? I can't see it, you should sing a duo."

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The workers ridiculed wantonly. Compared with the wine bottle, the technical content here is slightly higher. Lu Xu said with a sturdy face, “Don’t look at people in the cracks of the door, look down on people, mashing pot, for me, That's not a problem."

But speaking of it, he still has no confidence, and his voice is not as loud as it was when he was sitting on the floor.

Enough talking and making trouble, an old worker smiled, "Da Guang, wash your bottles well. Wash more bottles and you might be able to become normal a day earlier. You are not Qin Dong, no one. Life.” They also know the idea of ​​these temporary workers. They have survived that day. Who doesn't want to get a regular job and get an extra 20 yuan in salary.

However, there are only a few Qin Dongs in the factory, isn't one Qin Dong only after six years of establishment?

Jiao Zhenghong also smiled, "Daguang’s motivation is good. Our saccharification workshop is the face of the factory, and it is the first process. Our saccharification workshop can’t keep up, which directly affects fermentation and filling. The big guys should work harder. Secretary Zhou cannot be criticized for being behind!"

A brewery wants to expand its production capacity mainly depends on the improvement of saccharification capacity.There are two ways to improve saccharification capacity.One is to expand or add new saccharification equipment, and the other is to increase equipment utilization and increase the number of saccharification.

Increasing the saccharification equipment requires investment, which cannot solve the problem for a while, and increasing the number of saccharification requires a substantial increase in the process under certain conditions.

Investment and craftsmanship are both difficult problems that Lu Xuguang cannot solve, so Qin Dong chooses to let him "make a little trouble" on the original equipment.

"Director Jiao, I have it." Lu Xuguang circled the saccharification pot that he had just met, decently turned a few times, and then moved closer.

"What's the matter, there are kids?" a young worker laughed, and he drew loud laughter.

"Daguang, I got it with good intentions," Jiao Zhenghong is still a good person, "I'm busy, I'll listen to you sing Duo Renzhuan when I have time..." After speaking, he "dangdangdang" climbed up to the second floor and directed the workers to the mashing pot Feeding.

The traditional saccharification method is still used to produce beer. Each pot is saccharified eight times a day, and the efficiency is still relatively high.

Seeing that the people in the saccharification workshop got busy and ignored him, Lu Xuguang walked out of the workshop bitterly. He dragged his water shoes to the maintenance workshop again, but Qin Dong was not there. "The price is so bad all day, where are you going? Up?"

Just as Lu Xuguang was about to leave the house, he saw Qin Dong walking over with his toolkit, "Why, did you hit the south wall?"

"They don't believe it, what can I do?" Lu Xuguang hugged Qin Dong, "Quickly give me an idea, what's the next?"

"Go find..." Qin Dong smiled and lowered his voice, "You tell him this way, he is very enthusiastic..." He smiled and said a few words, "Well, remember?"

"Remember," Lu Xuguang patted his head, "Wait, Qin Dong, how come I forgot my head again, you say it again!"

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The saccharification workshop adopts a two-story layout. The tank on the first floor is directly supported by the floor. The second floor is mainly a feeding room, which sends malt and rice into the saccharification pot through the pipeline. This two-story building is the main landscape of the whole plant.

"Daguang, talent," Wu Geng praised, "I can sing duo, and will transform the mash pot. But I notified Secretary Zhou and Director Chen. Secretary Zhou is still in the district for a meeting. Come back right away. Don't you Drop me the chain."

"Wh... how can it be," Lu Xuguang patted his chest, "work alive, die, my spitting is a nail..." He was excited, and his words became uncomfortable.

"I like to listen to these words, and I'm excited!" Wu Geng pushed his black-framed glasses, his eyes shot directly from behind the lenses, "however, why do I hear these words so familiar?"

"My hometown says so." This was Qin Dong's verbal remarks, Lu Xudong was taken aback, but he still said without embarrassment.

Because Lu Xuguang was the first person who dared to eat crabs in this economical production movement, and he went to Wu Geng on the same day, the factory leaders paid much attention to it. When Wu Geng and Lu Xuguang walked into the saccharification workshop, the director Jiao of the saccharification workshop Leading a class deputy director and section chief greeted him.

"Da Guang, what kind of demon did you make," Jiao Zhenghong said unceremoniously, "You don't even know the saccharification pot, this is not your cooking pot, do you want to modify it?!" He turned his head and said to Wu Geng. "Mr. Wu, we are preparing to feed materials. Isn't this a delay?"

Wu Geng slapped Jiao Zhenghong and said with a big grin, "What's the delay? Everyone is responsible for the production economy movement. If it is delayed, Secretary Zhou and Factory Manager Chen will support you. Do your job, let Daguang talk about your ideas, God. Can it fall down?"

"Just let him fool you," Jiao Zhenghong was completely dissatisfied. "I'll go to Xiong Yongfu later. All his workers have been transformed into our saccharification workshop. After that, the saccharification workshop will let him Xiong Yongfujian. Looking at the workshop director, the director of Wu, isn't this a joke?"

"Da Guang, are you fooling me?" Wu Geng calmed Jiao Zhenghong's two decoders and patted Lu Xuguang on the shoulder. "Wait for the secretary and factory directors to come, you can't bring out the real thing, I tell you, this You can't take it away!"

"I..." Lu Xuguang felt a rush of heat in his throat, and his heart beat more severely, but when he saw a figure also entered the saccharification workshop, he let out a sigh of relief. Would you take!"