Gulong writes about alcoholics, but occasionally he also writes about tea. For example, he borrowed the mouth of Li Xunhuan said: tea as long as it is hot, it is not too hard to drink; as long as the woman is young, it is not too annoying – the latter half of the sentence again to reveal the true nature of the Dragon.
Zhang Dai mentioned, Mr. Dong Rizhu hold a similar view: thick, hot, full, three words do tea theory. People who drink thick tea must feel the same way: tea must drink hot. Winter from to say, cold day, drink hot tea, fingertips warm to faint pain; that season you go to Kangding, people will ask you to drink ghee tea: big pot of goo goo goo boiled brick tea, rich flavor; ghee and salt, stir in another pot, and so tea open, pick up the pot, to pour a pot, the aroma was hot out, thick and strong. When you want to drink it, pour it in a bowl with the teapot? mile.
Coffee is also good hot. It is said that the temperature of coffee is best in 83 degrees to 85 degrees, the more intense the more so, so espresso as long as the mouth is not hot, the hotter the better the drink; cappuccino or latte, such as mixed with milk, the temperature can be lower, or simply iced. The reason is that hot coffee will release tannic acid when it cools, and if you drink it at room temperature, it will be so sour that you can’t import it.
Wine can also be drunk hot, and some even must be. The “Dream of the Red Chamber”, we all love to drink yellow wine. This is the reason why it is so popular with children like Jia Baoyu. But Aunt Xue and Xue Bao Nobile advised him successively to drink it hot, otherwise it was not good for his health. Jiangnan people do drink yellow wine as it is: in Yu Hua’s “The Story of Xu San Guan’s Blood Selling”, after selling blood, they ritually treat themselves to fried liver and the classic line: “Yellow wine is warm. “
Beer, also brewed with grain, should be drunk cold, the colder the better. The colder it is, the better, because the bitter aroma from the hops matches the coldness of the beer: pour a full glass and cover it with foam to prevent the aroma from escaping.
Japanese daiginjo should also be drunk cold. It is said that the outer layer of protein is removed from the rice grains before brewing, as there is a fatty layer on the outside of the grains that affects the taste.
Among spirits, chilled vodka is the most natural. Vodka is not only alcohol, it’s water, so you can add as much or as little as you like to it. It’s not just alcohol, it’s alcohol, sweet and spicy, and it’s all in there. Usually leave it in the refrigerator, but when you have to go out in winter, take a sip of it and you’ll be warmed up in a while, with your mind a little drifting.
Instead, it’s whisky on the rocks, now popular in the world, but in Scotland, it would be considered not very good. Old Scotch drinkers think the smoky, oaky, leathery flavors of whisky are too good to be iced. Peter Mayer writes that a native Scot who dares to ice his whisky is more guilty of a crime than beating his wife.
Wine tasting has now become a ritualistic affair, and anyone who asks whether wine should be served cold or hot will be scolded by a wine drinker. In fact, in Europe, wine is served both hot and cold. For example, the Iberian Peninsula are drinking sangria, which is a mixture of fruit, red wine, honey and brandy, served in a pile of ice cubes ringing.
Hot to drink? Then you have to take advantage of the winter to go to the French-Swiss border and ski resorts like Annecy, where the streets are full of hot red wine. A glass of bright red wine, with ginger sugar, ginger flavor of red wine astringent taste of the solution, the sweet smell of wine and a lot of clarity.
The East’s hot wine, to drink at night, don’t have the fun, Bai Juyi called “green ants new unstrained wine, red mud small fireplace. The evening sky longs for snow, can drink a cup of no.”. Ordinary people can also have their own evening to warm the wine. Before he became famous, Kunifang Kogawa, a great craftsman of the late Ukiyo-e period, was not only a painter, but also a tatami maker. When no one asked him to fix tatami mats, he would spend the whole day painting. At dusk, he would go out to buy sake and hang it next to an oil lamp. He would continue to paint until it was dark and the oil lamp was half dry. I drank warm wine and pounded on the table. The cats outside the window smelled the wine and gathered in clouds, meowing endlessly.
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