It is said that the bamboo wine sold after thirty or forty years is fake, mainly because it takes a long time to make and can be made in a short time. Bamboo wine is mainly made of bamboo, which is the most common in the south, but not all bamboo can be brewed, nor can it be brewed in all seasons. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the best time to brew bamboo wine. Only five-year-old tender bamboo can be made into bamboo wine, because the quality of bamboo is tender at this time. Phyllostachys pubescens mainly grows underground at this time. Generally speaking, a bamboo can only brew a barrel of bamboo wine, which takes at least 3-4 years. Therefore, most of the 30-40-dollar bamboo barrel wine can only be filled with liquor after bamboo grows, which is why many people think that bamboo barrel wine is a scam.
In fact, the real bamboo wine should not only be made of thick bamboo, but also be injected into bamboo crevices before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day. If injected into other places, it will easily lead to bamboo rot. If injected into the bamboo joint for a period of time, the wound will heal. Liquor will be fully mixed with the juice secreted by bamboo in bamboo joints. In the fermentation process of 3-4 years, the aroma of liquor and bamboo will be fully mixed together, and liquor will turn pale yellow or brown. The bamboo wine produced in this way is the real bamboo wine.
In recent years, with the bamboo tube wine gradually entering people's field of vision, many black-hearted merchants have made fake bamboo tube wine, that is, they directly pour the wine into the already grown bamboo tube. Because you don't have to wait three or four years, the bamboo wine made in this way is particularly cheap. Therefore, you should polish your eyes when buying bamboo wine. Ordinary bamboo wine is definitely not cheap. In addition, it depends on the aroma of bamboo wine. Fake bamboo wine will not smell of bamboo soon after it is poured into the cup, but real bamboo wine will still smell of bamboo even after it is poured into the cup for a long time.