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  • Open Access
10 Citations
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Alcohol Use in China: Unrecorded and Recorded Bai Jiu in Three Rural Regions

  • Lanyan Ding,
  • Baoping Song,
  • Chengli Wu,
  • Ian M. Newman,
  • Lok-Wa Yuen,
  • Ling Qian,
  • Botao Wang,
  • Wenjuan Zhang and
  • Ping Wei

In China, approximately 70% of beverage alcohol is consumed in the form of spirits. An estimated 25% of all alcohol consumed is unrecorded, mostly spirits (bai jiu), produced outside regulatory systems in small neighborhood distilleries, mostly in ru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,986 Views
10 Pages

Comparison of Patterns of Use of Unrecorded and Recorded Spirits: Survey of Adult Drinkers in Rural Central China

  • Shiqing Wei,
  • Ping Yin,
  • Ian M. Newman,
  • Ling Qian,
  • Duane F. Shell and
  • Lok-wa Yuen

About 70% of the beverage alcohol consumed in China annually is spirits. Recorded spirits make up most spirit consumption, but about 25% of total alcohol consumption (1.7 L pure alcohol per capita annually) is unrecorded spirits (bai jiu), either hom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,127 Views
11 Pages

About 20% of spirits consumed in China are “unrecorded”, where these spirits are produced in small-scale distilleries and sold outside the systems of taxation and quality control. Researchers visited small distilleries in rural Yunnan, Hu...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,454 Views
8 Pages

13 September 2019

Fuel alcohol production yields can be influenced by lignocellulosic biomass loading. High solid loadings (>20 wt%) are suggested to have the potential to produce more products. However, most often, low substrate loadings (<5% solids, w/w) are u...