Impress Your Thanksgiving Guests with Mulled Chinese Yellow Wine
From apple-brandy and hot toddies to mulled red wine, nothing beats a warming alcohol beverage at a party on a chilly evening. If you're looking for a different warm drink to impress your guests during the upcoming Thanksgiving, embrace the local culture and warm up some huangjiu, or yellow wine, in the Chinese way that your guests will never forget.
It's a Chinese tradition to drink warm Huangjiu, in winter to get rid of coldness. Huangjiu is a type of Chinese alcoholic beverage brewed directly from grains such as rice, millet, or wheat. Unlike baijiu, these liquors are not distilled and contain less alcohol.
But by Chinese drinking standards, the 14-20 percent alcohol in the amber-colored liquor with (perhaps a bit more overpowering than mulled wine) is considered as a mild and casual drink.
People in north China are familiar with maize-based yellow wine, but it is Huangjiu from East China's Shaoxing city in Zhejiang Province, brewed from rice and husked millet, that has made the name both at home and overseas.
Local people love to drink the yellow wine warm, even when it's not cold outside. Serving it between 40-50℃ is believed enhance the aroma and the alcohol’s medical value to drive away internal cold.
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