Divine Flame Crystal

Chapter 121: Winemaker from Another World

When the laboratory door was closed, the noisy sounds outside disappeared instantly. The sound insulation of the laboratory was what he focused on. The thickness of the walls and the several magic circles arranged on it were all prepared for sound insulation and defense.

Xingluo calmed down and began to mix his own liquor based on his previous experience. Although he had never visited a liquor factory before, he had a good memory. Especially after becoming a magician, his mental power became stronger and stronger. He dug out all the knowledge that existed in his subconscious mind. He still knew something about the basic principles of winemaking. After a little experimentation, he should be able to succeed.

There are a lot of things similar to glutinous rice outside the canyon. Last time when he picked dragon smell grass, he picked a lot of it. This time he can give it a try. He took out some glutinous rice from the ring and began to experiment with making white wine.

He also found a lot of calcium borate stone in the canyon. The borosilicate extracted from this thing can make glass resistant to high temperatures, making it more suitable for making experimental instruments, especially thermometers. The reason why alchemists of this era always failed in their experiments was that the glassware they used was not resistant to high temperatures and shattered during the heating process. They even had to use up their mental strength and magic power to protect the experimental instruments during the experiment.

He planned to make something similar to a thermometer first, which was relatively simple. Mithril was often used in magic equipment. Although he had not found mercury yet, mithril was also a substance that expanded when exposed to heat, and it was more sensitive than mercury. In this world, water would boil when heated to a certain temperature, so he temporarily regarded this temperature as 100 degrees.

He first refined a glass tube with borosilicate added, then poured mithril into one end of the tube and sealed the end. He inserted the glass tube into boiling water and drew a scale at the position where the mithril expanded. He then made a piece of ice and put it into sea salt water. After the temperature stopped changing, he inserted the glass tube and recorded the scale. He then temporarily set the temperature to 0 degrees, engraved 100 equally spaced lines between 0 and 10, and wrote the corresponding numbers. In this way, a simple thermometer was made. As for other factors such as air pressure, he did not consider them too much. He only needed to test the temperature required for brewing wine in this world.

Next, he wanted to try whether the thing similar to glutinous rice he brought back from outside the canyon was glutinous rice, so he took out some and soaked it in water. After a few hours, he washed it twice, and then began to heat it in a beaker in the laboratory. After it was steamed through, he heated it for dozens of minutes. Then he put the steamed material in another large glass container to cool it. When the temperature dropped to about 2 degrees, he broke it up with stream water. He looked at the thermometer and knew that he could add the koji when the temperature reached about 40 degrees. As for whether it would succeed in the end, he didn't know.

The problem is that Xingluo doesn't have any distiller's yeast now, so he can only stop here temporarily. He needs to wait for Xi to help him collect information. When he has nothing to do, he picks up a piece of glutinous rice and tastes it. The taste is indeed similar to what he had eaten before.

Temperature is very important when brewing wine, and this problem has been solved. He directly carved a constant magic circle on the experimental table and placed a magic core to stabilize the temperature at a certain degree. "Well, it depends on whether there is something similar to Qujiu in the world." He is not very worried about this. Even if there is no such thing, he has the confidence to make something similar.

After half a day's hard work, Xi finally came back, but he was a little disappointed. In this era, nothing like koji had ever been used in the production of wine. He had to make the koji himself. Fortunately, this thing was not too difficult, it just took some time.

He first asked someone to buy some flour from this era, added an appropriate amount of water, kneaded it, filled it into a mold, pressed it tightly to fix its shape, and then put it into a closed environment with different temperatures and humidity and began to observe.

As for the hygrometer, he planned to combine the magic of this world to make it. The direction of Starfall Alchemy has always been to combine the ideas of the 21st century with the magic of this world, such as the mithril thermometer.

As for the hygrometer, it can use the water element free in the air to measure, and the amount of water element will determine the humidity.

However, in order to make this hygrometer more convenient to use, Xingluo conducted a lot of experiments and finally consulted Master Nick. He finally found a metal with unbalanced moisture absorption and expansion at both ends. He used this to make a hygrometer that looked somewhat cute. At least Tiffany thought so.

Tiffany held a spherical object the size of a bird's egg, with many digital scales on it. When Xingluo kept the number of water elements in the surrounding air at around 60, a thin metal needle in the small ball began to bend towards the 60 scale. As the water elements in the air increased, it finally bent to 90 degrees. At this time, the metal needle had overlapped with the place where the 100 scale was written, and as the water elements in the air decreased or increased, the metal needle sensitively responded to the scale.

Tiffany held the transparent egg and asked curiously, "What is this?"

"A device that measures the amount of water in the air. You could call it a hygrometer."

"Hygrometer? What's that for?"

"You'll know later."

Tiffany was even more curious at this time, but seeing that Xingluo looked very serious, she did not disturb him. She just sat quietly by the side, watching the fat man who was conducting the experiment seriously. She found that Xingluo was still very attractive when he was serious. Thinking of this, a blush appeared on her snow-white face.

Xingluo was immersed in the winemaking process and naturally did not notice the changes on Tiffany's side. He made several thermometers and hygrometers and placed them in closed spaces with different humidity and temperature. This was a protective film formed by Xingluo himself using space elements. This film drove out other elements, leaving only the water element and the fire element environment.

These independent small spaces are where he cultivates koji. As time goes by, the material in the molds begins to mold, and eventually some of them fail, while others become usable koji-like substances.

Then he added these substances to the freshly steamed glutinous rice and began a long wait. With the failure of one experiment after another, Xingluo finally figured out the temperature and humidity for cultivating white wine in this world, as well as the dosage table of koji and various ingredients. He carefully wrote down these data on a piece of parchment. Xingluo's winemaking plan was finally successful. Countless experiments before and after, especially when looking for magical materials that could stably react to humidity, made Xingluo a little exhausted, but when he tasted the white wine he brewed, he laughed happily.

Tiffany would come to Xingluo every day to watch his boring experiments. One day, she suddenly smelled a fragrance that spread throughout the laboratory. Her little nose twitched slightly and she looked at Xingluo who had a happy face.

She took a few steps forward, took the cup that Xingluo had drunk from hesitantly, and took a sip. The spicy taste made her cough for a long time, and then the mellow taste began to spread in her mouth, making Tiffany take another sip. Then her pupils began to dilate, and she felt the ground began to shake, "Who cast the earthquake spell!!!"

Xingluo looked at Tiffany with amusement and ordered a female alchemist to help her out. From then on, white wine was born in this magical world, and there was also a little drunkard in the Sky City. From then on, Tiffany would always ask Xingluo for wine from time to time, as if she was addicted to this liquid that made her dizzy and its spicy taste. And when she finished drinking, Xingluo looked a lot more handsome.