制曲行业呼唤大曲质量统一标准

我国制曲行业是从典型的传统产业酿酒工序中剥离出来的新兴产业，虽然制曲历史悠久，但作为产业却非常年轻。历史上，大曲质量全凭感官判别，随着科学技术的发展，大曲质量的判别增加了理化指标。各白酒企业制订了相应的大曲质量标准或指标，但不尽科学合理，尚无大曲质量统一标准。随着制曲专业化的发展，制曲行业正在呼唤“大曲质量统一标准”。衡量大曲质量的指标能否统一到真正能反映大曲生化性能的几个指标上，如“酒化力”、“酯化力”、氨态氮和淀粉消耗率及容重等，并重新考虑感官质量指标与理化指标和生化指标的权重。大曲质量统一标准的制订必将助推制曲专业化的进一步发展，使产品质量得到进一步保证和提高，并促进制曲产业化的发展。

Starter-making Industry Calling for Unified Daqu Quality Standards

Starter-making industry is a new branch industry derived from traditional liquor-making industry.Starter-making has a long history.However,the history of starter-making as an industry is quite short.Once Daqu quality was judged by sensory organs.With the development of modern scientific techniques,the judgement of Daqu quality also depended on physiochemical indexes.Each liquor enterprise had formulated its own Daqu quality standards which were not quite scientific.Up to the present,there is no unified Daqu quality standards which seriously hindered the rapid development of starter-making specialization.A real unified Daqu quality standards must have unified important indexes such as liquor-producing power,esterifying power,the consumption rate of amino nitrogen and amylum etc.Besides,a unified Daqu quality standards must achieve the equilibrium between sensory indexes and physiochemical indexes.The forumlation of a unified Daqu quality standards would surely advance further development of starter-making specialization,ensure further improvement of liquor product quality,and accelerate the further development of starter-making industrialization.(Tran.by YUE Yang)