The Chinese have learned how to produce medicinal alcohol inside a live bamboo

Everyone knows that Ostap Bender owned a recipe for "stools" - moonshine from an ordinary wooden stool. It is not known for sure whether such an alcoholic drink exists or not. But there is definitely a strong tincture on bamboo and it is also useful in addition to everything. "Bamboo" is produced by Chinese entrepreneur Chen Chao. This is not a joke — the alcoholic beverage "ripens" right in the trunk of a living plant.

The inventor of the unique tincture, 30-year-old Chen Chao, lives and creates in the Chinese province of Sichuan. In these parts, things are not good with oak barrels, but there is plenty of bamboo. One day, Chen decided to try what would happen if strong alcohol was infused in the voids inside the bamboo trunks. The effect exceeded all expectations and now the innovator has a lot of grateful consumers.

The production technology of Chen Chao branded tincture is simple. He takes strong alcohol, for example, baijiu vodka, and under pressure injects it into the trunk of a growing bamboo. The man says that not any plants are suitable for this, but only young ones. In them, the drink matures faster and has a pleasant taste. After a certain time, Chao drills a small hole in the bamboo trunk and drains the finished product.

But bamboo trunk tincture is not just an exotic kind of alcohol. About his invention , Chen Chao says this:

Flavon and bamboo juice are ancient remedies of Chinese medicine. They are known for their healing properties and the ability to remove toxins from the body. Therefore, Chen Chao tincture has a "detox" effect. Unfortunately, and maybe fortunately, bamboo "steals the degree". At the exit, the alcohol is not so strong.

The production of an unusual drink does not require large expenses. A small family-owned company Ciao produces up to 25 thousand liters of products per year. However, Chen had a serious competitor not so long ago. This is He Kang from Lujiang County, Anhui Province. He can't surpass Chao yet, but he's striving hard for it. Now Kan has a grove of 4 thousand bamboo trunks at his disposal and he plans to expand.

Chen Chao admits that they will be able to get along in the Chinese market with He Kang. The manufacturer from Lujiang has a slightly different technology and therefore its tincture differs in properties. Kang does not mess with complicated equipment that supplies alcohol under pressure, but simply drills holes in bamboo and pours vodka there. After 6 months, he simply uncorks the trunk and drains the tincture. As bottles, Kan uses original containers made of ... of course, bamboo!

In this whole story, one thing is unclear — how businessmen protect their plantations. Agree, in our region, even a rumor that there may be vodka inside the plant can lead to an irreparable ecological catastrophe. Maybe things are different in China?