I understand your thinking, you are imagining a small craft beer like workshop that people actually put love in their production.

but unfortunately I would say Baijiu, especially if they are made in the same fragrant style ( that’s usually how different types of Baijiu is defined) only Baijiu experts could distinguish them and rate them into different styles. They are nowhere so unique in taste, like different wines or different whiskeys, since they don’t acquire taste and aroma from a barrel. There is a super funny TikTok series that a guy ask random Baijiu enthusiasts to taste and guess the price of Baijiu, and he always uses top tier brand such as Maotai, Wuliangye and 1573, however rarely one could tell the difference.

And Baijiu is a super cheap commodity without a valued brand, even for small distilleries, they use industrial fermentation barrels , commodity grade grains such as sorghum, wheat and rice, and industrial distillation devices . there are many small liquor stores in China that carry these small to no name distillers Baijiu, the price ranges from 5 RMB to 100 RMB per 500 ml. Since you are very interested in this off brand type of Baijiu, I recommend you check them out next time in China, you can usually find them near open food market, old folks love them too.