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    Fungus instead of yeast as fermenter

    Wow! I owe you man! It vaguely seems like my guess were right, develop the mycelium in liquid, let the fungus do the job, then strain the debris and retain the liquid as alcohol. Although I completely don't understand the sonication part, so I might be wrong here. I still think that mead (with...
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    Fungus instead of yeast as fermenter

    No problem. ;) Btw I just checked your link, seems to be an easy and straightforward thing to do. The thing is the part when you said that the fungus could ferment the rice to make fermentable sugar, it just makes sense for me to use the fermented grains from my mushroom growing and just add...
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    Fungus instead of yeast as fermenter

    I'm interested with what you said. I heard that part of rice wine making process is inoculating rice with A. oryzae to form koji, a mass of rice fermented by A. oryzae fungus. I assume that's also the case with nuruk (Korean starter) as well. I can find a practical application in making rice...
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    Fungus instead of yeast as fermenter

    Aaaaa... Good thing that you noticed. I'm aware that based on the paper, not all mushrooms can produce alcohol but I'm willing to experiment. Sadly the paper doesn't provide much details aside from abstraction, but I assume that they didn't use yeast since there said "made wine by using a...
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    Fungus instead of yeast as fermenter

    Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum and I am particularly fond of the world of mycology, specifically of a certain medicinal mushroom. I recently discovered this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11515544 I need everyone's opinion on this matter. Can you make, say rice wine but instead...
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