Checked on it today (36 hours in) and there is a good bit of fuzzy white mold on top - scrape it off or leave it?
Increased the temp to about 90deg and it liquified a bunch over night why is everyone cooling the rice down during fermentation. Am I screwing something up. I have lots of black green mold now but it smells super sweet.
Tamarlane said:update - stirred it in
For everyone interested in ferm temp, this is supposed to be a warm ferment. Not 90 degrees warm but in the 70s more like. This type of yeast definitely does not favor the 60s either.
Looks delicious!! Did u just add puree fruit and pasturize?
For everyone interested in ferm temp, this is supposed to be a warm ferment. Not 90 degrees warm but in the 70s more like. This type of yeast definitely does not favor the 60s either.
Hi folks, I've made some rice wine for the first time and it is currently filtering out. Three days filtering and all my sediment is 2cm deep at the bottom of the bucket so all going well. Down side is I had a little taste and it tastes a little sour. Is this the usual taste before sweetening or is my wine turning to vinegar slowly? My wine is filtering indoors which is something I have never done. Any advice would be great fully received. Thanks in advance.
At that temperature the yeast are going to be stressed and not as able to compete with the other organisms. Black mold is not usually a type of mold you want to see. It's the color of mold that gets houses condemned.
Take another sniff of your mash. I'm guessing you won't smell much alcohol.
I keep the temperature down both because i want the yeast to be as stress free as possible, and I want the enzymes to slowly convert the starch to sugar so the yeast have a chance to build up tolerance. It seems that most of the alcohol conversion happens after 25 days. At 21 days my wine tasted. like candy syrup with a splash of alcohol. At 30 days it slapped me stupid with just enough sweetness to make it worth it.
Don't fear the white fuzzies. It's the right mold doing its job
hebbs said:read the whole thread. heading to asian market today after work.
I gotta lay off this site!
Alright I think I'm good to go. Local Asian market specially ordered Chinese yeast balls (~$5/4oz) and I got a 15# bag of Nishiki sushi rice.
Edit: Looked up a recipe online, it'll be:
12 cups sushi rice (~5.6#) soaked and steamed
3 yeast balls crushed with 4 tsp white flour (not sure what the flour is adding to it)
So is anybody going to fess up to eating a bowl of the still-fermenting rice porridge? I tasted what was on the spoon i stirred it up with this morning and was quite tempted.
Its a dish here in china. After 3 days you can eat the porrige. You can also strain it and put cooked sweet sesame paste dumplings in warmed liquid. Awesome dessert!
That's pretty much what mine has been like when the wine was ready. Earlier in the process it was much chunkier and sweeter smelling. Less saccharification and less fermentation.I must have done something different from you guys... the "rice" that was left over in my batches REAKED so much of strong alcoholic sake I was not even tempted to try it... It was so strong my whole house smelled like a sake brewing plant (or what I would imagine one would smell like). That gelatenous mess went right down the drain.
I must have done something different from you guys... the "rice" that was left over in my batches REAKED so much of strong alcoholic sake I was not even tempted to try it... It was so strong my whole house smelled like a sake brewing plant (or what I would imagine one would smell like). That gelatenous mess went right down the drain.
Its a dish here in china. After 3 days you can eat the porrige. You can also strain it and put cooked sweet sesame paste dumplings in warmed liquid. Awesome dessert!
So is anybody going to fess up to eating a bowl of the still-fermenting rice porridge? I tasted what was on the spoon i stirred it up with this morning and was quite tempted.
One big failure and one small success.
I had 2 batches running simultaneously that are now complete.
Batch 1. This was a large batch I couldn't seem to get full saccharification in. It was a 5 gallon volume of cooked rice, 30 cups of dry rice. I let it go clear to day 33, and warmed it up. It did progress somewhat, but still had small pieces of hard rice in the mix. I'm really not sure what the issue with the saccharification was. The other issue I had was that of scale. It is really difficult to get enough pressure on a rice mass that large to get a reasonable liquid extraction. I ended up yielding only one 750ml bottle of rice wine from it. At that point I gave up. *sigh* That's pretty much a wasted 8 bucks.
Batch 2. This was a much smaller batch with leftover starch mass instead of rice yeast balls. It came out very well. I did get some mold in the rice, but that isn't that uncommon with these batches. Yield was normal, no issues getting saccharification of the rice. All in all, very pleased with the batch. I do think using the leftover starch mass increased the likelihood of getting mold, but the wine is fine. This also took what the prior batch did in terms of time. 26 days.
In summary, I will not be making batches that large again. It's just to much work. I will also be running successive batches with the leftover rice starch mass. Once a batch with undesirable mold in it occurs, I will start the next batch from yeast balls. That should reduce the need for the rice yeast balls by 1/2 or more. The next experiment will be rice wine vinegar, though I think all I really need for that is some more time with the last batch I've got running.
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