aiptasia
Well-Known Member
Here's an interesting development. I started another two 3 cup batches of rice wine last night in target cracker jars. This fills them to about 1/3 volume of steamed sushi rice and they get two small crushed up yeast balls each jar. I washed the heck out of this rice until it ran clear and just put them in my kitchen cabinet for the full 3 week fermentation next to two smaller jars of RYR+sushi rice at about 2 weeks in.
Today was my last rice addition on the true sake project and either I miscalculated the final volume of rice or the novelty bell jar i'm using for the sake isn't truly 1 gallon in capacity. I had to take about half of the final volume of rice and water and mix it into one of the jars of rice wine I whipped up last night. I know what you're thinking, why didn't I just grab another jar and divide up the batch of sake into two batches....
I had no empty jars in the house. Not a one. Not even an empty baby food jar. Doh!
In order to create a 2-3" neck space for fermentation in the sake jar, I had to scoop out a little glucose water, koji, sushi rice and lalvin 1116 in order to free up space in the sake jar. That mixture of sake goodness went right into the cracker jar with the extra rice and yeast balls from yesterday.
It should make for an interesting fermentation to say the least.
Today was my last rice addition on the true sake project and either I miscalculated the final volume of rice or the novelty bell jar i'm using for the sake isn't truly 1 gallon in capacity. I had to take about half of the final volume of rice and water and mix it into one of the jars of rice wine I whipped up last night. I know what you're thinking, why didn't I just grab another jar and divide up the batch of sake into two batches....
I had no empty jars in the house. Not a one. Not even an empty baby food jar. Doh!
In order to create a 2-3" neck space for fermentation in the sake jar, I had to scoop out a little glucose water, koji, sushi rice and lalvin 1116 in order to free up space in the sake jar. That mixture of sake goodness went right into the cracker jar with the extra rice and yeast balls from yesterday.
It should make for an interesting fermentation to say the least.