Making Traditional rice Wine. Cheap, Fun, and Different

So you're saying that carboy has excellent girth...

 

Just a guess, but @ a gallon and a half with 10 lbs rice? My concern is that any burnt rice that made it to the bucket, you're going to taste it no matter what you put in to mask it. No idea what that taste would be, good or bad, but can't imagine a nice smoked oak flavor coming from it. lol. Good Luck.

 

Here is my batch. 2 weeks in. Thinking about draining it. Cold crashing it then bottling.


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I'd give it another week.

 

Yea I was thinking the same thing. I have a big southern comfort bottle I'm trying to finish so I can put it in there lol


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Or two... There's a lot of rice in there you're wasting by stopping so soon. That rice will all start dropping to the bottom, leaving clear wine on top.

 

I got my ryr today.... how do I use it?

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Crush it with your rice yeast balls and mix it in all at once, after your rice has cooled. I use 1 tbs of dry RYR per cup of dry rice, before the RYR has been crushed.

 

Thanks

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Exactly how I use it. A little goes a long way.

 

Glad it arrived safely. Thanks again.

Is this your first batch or have you made regular batches before?

 

Good to know I was gonna go redneck and shoot all muh bullets at once.

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Thanks again gents im cooking rice now... slow and painful 2 cups at a time.

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Any differences for red over white? Temps... times.... X cetera ?

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First ryr batch started. Was lazy crushed yeast ball between thimb and forefinger. Ryr four pinches likewise.

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Well, I was going to explain that my ratio was a little higher than what others posted, but I see "Precise" isn't part of your preperation.. lol. Good luck.

 

After 2 days mine has a decent amount of liquid on top ... Is this normal?

 

Leave alone for 3-4 weeks. Let t do its thing.

 

You might sterilize a spoon or something and stir it a bit. I've had sweet rice make a glue-like "Plug" before where liquid couldn't drop down and CO2 couldn't escape.

 

jak1010,

I just order some yeast balls from you on Ebay, looking forward to trying this out!

Thanks!

Chris

 

Nice! Thanks for that. You're going to love this stuff. Just be careful...it's freaking awesome!

 

Should be fine...Can you post a pic of it?

 

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Hard to tell from the pic but, it looks like all is well. Very similar to what I've seen before. No weird colors or growths. How long has it been going?

 

3 days... There is some white fuzz on top

 

Looks normal, how about a side shot?

 

Its in a white 2 gallon bucket

 

Not really, the wine is very different though. The RYR produces a much fruitier, and less tangy wine. The RYR it's self produces the fruit flavor. It also seems to inhibit the growth of acetobacter in the batch.

I've had good success with using the lees from a RYR batch to do another batch. You do have to mix the lees in with new cooled rice immediately after harvesting. No stashing it in the fridge or anything like that. Trying to do that with white rice wine has produced wine, but generally it's more acid in it then I would like.

Here's a picture of what I consider normal mold growth on the top of a RYR batch. The mold is normal on white rice wine batches too, it's just a lot harder to see. The red gives it a good contrast.

Gray-green or orange mold is bad. Sometimes black mold is bad, sometimes it's the koji fruiting body and is fine.

 

We just had about 3 ounces each of the harvested-Monday rice wine, warmed up slightly in the MW. It's so dang good.

ONE of the two 750ml bottles opens with a very considerable POP! every day. The other one has a slight pop to it but nothing compared to the first. Also, when that first one POPS - it causes the solids to self-mix with the clearer top liquid. Anyone else having this happen?

I think I'm going to pasteurize these in the next day or so - have more ready to harvest tomorrow, and more next week, so I can see that the two of us won't be able to keep up with the production! PLUS there is homebrew in the house, and some in the conditioning chamber, AND we're brewing this weekend.

 

Perfect. That sounds exactly right. Just keep that lid on and make sure no nastiness get in. In about 14-17 more days there'll be so much alcohol produced that the fuzzy good mold will be all gone.

 

Awesome thanks... I'll forget about it fit a bit

 

What kind of volumes are we talking about for a 1 gallon container? I keep reading all through the thread, but see very little about specific recipes? I plan to use Jasmine Rice, and yeast balls.

I bought a 1 gal Mason jar, drilled the lid and added an airlock. Fit the sleeve of a sweater over it to block light, and keep warm. Just need an idea of how much rice(dry) to how many Yeast balls. Yeast is from jak1010, not sure about how big they are?

 

I have been putting six dry cups in a one gallon container along with three balls, yields a little over two quarts of wine.

 

Excellent. Thanks for the reply.

 

No problem, the worst part is the wait. The stuff is so good.

 

I had another batch set to harvest today - but it's the batch where I really packed the rice into the half-gallon jug. It showed very little liquid, so I spooned the rice out into a large bowl, broke it up (and it was still very much grains, not just mush) and put it into a gallon jug, and back in the cooler. I'm gonna give it another week and see how it looks.

Mine has been fermenting in the 60 to 64* range and doing just splendidly. VERY little formation of anything fuzzy on top, no off odors, and the wine we did harvest on Monday past is really good. And, those two bottles continue to ferment in the fridge, which the bottom shelf is just about 40*. I get a very hearty POP! off especially one of them when I decork it every day.

Pretty happy with my rice wine farm!

 

Pics of my mini brewer.



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Its 1 gallon. Sitting next to 5 gallons of Skeeter Pee......

 

Does cold crashing work for rice wine?


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That's really friggin cool. I may try doing that.