"A brewing contest? Nalant, do you want to enter?" Black Tower immediately asked curiously.
"I do want to enter, but I still don't know what this contest is actually about, so I came to ask you!" Nalant was equally straightforward. There was nothing to hide in this matter.
"Nalant, this brewing contest truly is a fine opportunity for other races like yours, because whoever wins will receive a three-year procurement contract from us Dwarves!"
"The various duchies of your human Sacred Alliance used to scramble to join the contest every year. That's why all kinds of delicious strong liquors kept emerging one after another!"
Black Tower then began explaining the details of the brewing contest to Nalant.
The requirements for this brewing contest were rather unusual.
It did not merely demand good flavor; more importantly, the wine had to be cheap.
After all, it would be purchased to supply tens of thousands of Dwarf soldiers. If someone brought out a jug costing over a hundred gold coins, the Dwarves could smash their pots and sell their iron, yet still never afford to buy it.
With that prerequisite in place, the difficulty of the contest soared in a straight line.
Brewing wine that was delicious enough, strong enough, and cheap enough was extremely difficult.
In past years, contests like this had basically been dominated by Blue Shield Empire's Blazing Fire Wine and the Bach Empire's Blaze Wine.
That was because both Blazing Fire Wine and Blaze Wine had decent taste, sufficient strength, and low prices.
On the market, ordinary Blazing Fire Wine and Blaze Wine sold for ten gold coins a jug. That was already a price built up by merchants hauling them over mountains and across rivers, all to earn gold coins.
If supplied directly to the Dwarves, the price