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Episode 152 - Intro to Baijiu with Derek Sandhaus
In this eye opening conversation with Baijiu expert Derek Sandhaus, some of the topics we discuss include:
What Baijiu is - which might seem like a simple definitions game, but it's way more interesting than that.
How Derek came to spend years in China studying the culture and learning as much as possible about Baijiu and the people who make and enjoy it.
What sort of microbial magic needs to happen in order to produce liquid alcohol from a solid fermentable mash - and to that end, what Baijiu shares in common with other spirits like open fermented Mezcal and dunder-fortified Jamaican rum.
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