Reborn in the 1980s: Recapture My Devoted Husband
Chapter 98 - 97: Trading (Third Update)

Chapter 98: Chapter 97: Trading (Third Update)

Every night after coming home, Lin Wan started fiddling with her beer. All she knew was that malt beer required barley to germinate.

Lin Wan washed the wheat several times with clear water, then soaked it in a basin for a few days. After draining the water and waiting for it to sprout, she removed the small roots after a few days. Once the roots were removed, it could be used for brewing beer.

After grinding the malt into powder, she put it in a thermos, added water for gelatinization, and a few days later inserted a tube into the bottom of the thermos. The cloudy malt juice was poured back into the thermos repeatedly filtered. Lin Wan filtered it five times to clarify the malt juice. Then she boiled the malt juice and added hops after boiling. After turning off the heat, Lin Wan quickly placed the pot in prepared cold water. Once cooled, she added dissolved yeast, then placed it into a stainless steel cylinder for fermentation. Fermentation needed at least a month.

However, after just half a month, Lin Wan heard a loud boom in the kitchen; the pressure inside the stainless steel was too great, and it exploded.

Lin Wan, frustrated, smacked her head, wondering how she could have forgotten this detail.

In the end, having no choice, Lin Wan did it all over again.

This time, she made a hole in the barrel, plugged it with a cork, and released the air every few days.

Half a month later, Lin Wan poured the beer liquid into glass bottles and sealed them tightly.

A few days later, Lin Wan let Mom taste it, but as soon as she drank it, she spat it out.

"Ugh, it’s so bitter. What kind of wine is this?"

Lin Wan frowned, took a sip herself, and furrowed her eyebrows even more than Mom did the next second. Indeed, it was bitter as hell. It didn’t taste like beer at all.

Lin Wan poured it all out and brewed again. This time she adjusted the proportions and added some sugar when putting it into glass bottles.

This time, except for a bit of astringency, it wasn’t as bitter.

Lin Wan kept improving, and Liang Hongmei, seeing her daughter engaged in beer brewing every day, suddenly craved rice wine mash. In the North, no one would buy this.

Liang Hongmei bought some glutinous rice and made a small pot of rice wine.

While the mother and daughter were tinkering with their brews, they received a letter from home. There was also a large package.

The letter was from Songzi, saying that everything was fine at home. The village had installed light bulbs, and Uncle had helped install electricity for their family too. The village now had a lot of wasteland available for leasing. Originally, they didn’t have much money, but fortunately, they received the one hundred yuan that was sent. Thus, their family leased five mu of land. This money is considered borrowed. After a good harvest, it will be paid back the year after next. Little Grandmother said that traveling isn’t convenient for them, so they especially sent some homemade rice noodles. Knowing that Ah Wang likes to eat rice noodles, they sent some, saying that if there is anything needed over there, just write a letter and it will be taken care of, there’s no need to bring things back, everything outside is expensive.

Lin Wan and Liang Hongmei’s eyes turned red while reading the letter.

Liang Hongmei pulled Lin Yinghui aside and said, "Your uncle hasn’t had it easy these years, he doesn’t have any skills, just works with grains in the field, why don’t we send a few hundred more yuan so they can lease more land? Do you have any objections?"

"Mom, all these years, Little Grandmother and Uncle have been good to us, we all remember that, sending a few hundred yuan back, we have no objections," he said, considering Uncle as family.

"Mom, I have no objection either. Uncle should grow more rice. Nowadays, people’s living conditions are much better, and they’re getting pickier about food. Haven’t you noticed that vermicelli is common in our area, but almost nonexistent here? People here love sweet potato noodles. Actually, we can send some of what’s common here back to Uncle for him to sell over there and earn a little price difference. At that time, let Brother Ah Zhi make more of our local rice noodles, they can also be sold here. That would be more worthwhile than just giving money directly."