Making Traditional rice Wine. Cheap, Fun, and Different

[DanzigsMISFITS]

Here is the jar im starsaning right now and the rice...picking up yeast balls from my stepmoms house friday and it begins!!!! Im excited
Mixture of forbidden rice and jasmine

 

[Terek]

Getting ready to make this, sounds awsome

 

[jak1010]

Here is the jar im starsaning right now and the rice...picking up yeast balls from my stepmoms house friday and it begins!!!! Im excited
Mixture of forbidden rice and jasmine

Nice! Is that a mayonnaise jar? Please let us know how it goes.

Getting ready to make this, sounds awsome

Welcome to the addiction.

 

[Kaedith]

I thought some of you might be interested in this. I looked all over at different online Asian markets, brew stores etc for different types of yeast balls and the Angel Rice Leaven and happened to find 360videoshopping.com off someone's blog I think. Anyhow they sell the Angel Rice Leaven for the cheapest I've seen and offer free US shipping. It took a a couple weeks or so to show up but the tracking info said it was shipped from China.

Anyhow here is the link: http://www.360videoshopping.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=yeast they offer a 5 pack for $5.99, 10 pack for $9.59 and 20 pack for $14.99. I haven't brewed any with it yeast as I'm still about 1 week away from my 1st batch with the yeast balls, but I remember way back in the earlier parts of this thread people seemed to really like the results of their rice wine with this.

 

[DanzigsMISFITS]

Nice! Is that a mayonnaise jar? Please let us know how it goes.







Welcome to the addiction.

Huge pickle jar

 

[AlexHBMS]

It's been a while! When I first glanced this thread it was tiny! I've decided this is the summer I make Saki. Wish me luck!!

 

[countrygringo]

I started this batch 2 weeks ago using saramc's basic recipe from the beginning of this thread (4 cups sweet Thai rice cooked and cooled, layered with 3 yeast balls, 1/2 c red yeast rice ground in a food processor). It was at 75 degrees for a week and is now at 68 degrees. In the first 3-4 days quite a bit of liquid appeared, but hasn't changed since. It's quite clear, and looks good- the only thing that concerns me is what has come up in earlier posts- white mold on top. I assume it's ok, but my paranoia won't go away! If some rice wine vets could take a look at the pics I've posted and throw out an opinion, let me know- thanks!

 

[sonofgrok]

Here is the jar im starsaning right now and the rice...picking up yeast balls from my stepmoms house friday and it begins!!!! Im excited
Mixture of forbidden rice and jasmine

Don't use that rice! It is forbidden. hee hee.

 

[jak1010]

I started this batch 2 weeks ago using saramc's basic recipe from the beginning of this thread (4 cups sweet Thai rice cooked and cooled, layered with 3 yeast balls, 1/2 c red yeast rice ground in a food processor). It was at 75 degrees for a week and is now at 68 degrees. In the first 3-4 days quite a bit of liquid appeared, but hasn't changed since. It's quite clear, and looks good- the only thing that concerns me is what has come up in earlier posts- white mold on top. I assume it's ok, but my paranoia won't go away! If some rice wine vets could take a look at the pics I've posted and throw out an opinion, let me know- thanks!

Looks normal to me. You can stir it or shake it if you'd like but in my opinion, it looks perfect.

 

[ChefRex]

looks normal to me. You can stir it or shake it if you'd like but in my opinion, it looks perfect.

+1

 

[countrygringo]

Looks normal to me. You can stir it or shake it if you'd like but in my opinion, it looks perfect.

Thanks for that, I assumed it was all good but it's always nice to have a second opinion!

 

[LissyVapes]

I live in the middle of nowhere ohio, and can't find these yeast balls anywhere! Anyone willing to send me a ball? I'd be forever grateful!

 

[nsrooen]

I live in the middle of nowhere ohio, and can't find these yeast balls anywhere! Anyone willing to send me a ball? I'd be forever grateful!

PM me with your address and I will send you some. I have plenty. It can be my "good homebrew karma" deed of the day.

 

[DanzigsMISFITS]

Are these the yeast balls? They say rice cake

 

[jak1010]

Are these the yeast balls? They say rice cake

Yup....those are them. You got the right stuff. Proceed.

 

[DanzigsMISFITS]

1st batch just finished. Hope it goes well I know that roce was forbidden

 

[MasterCrook]

I started this batch 2 weeks ago using saramc's basic recipe from the beginning of this thread (4 cups sweet Thai rice cooked and cooled, layered with 3 yeast balls, 1/2 c red yeast rice ground in a food processor). It was at 75 degrees for a week and is now at 68 degrees. In the first 3-4 days quite a bit of liquid appeared, but hasn't changed since. It's quite clear, and looks good- the only thing that concerns me is what has come up in earlier posts- white mold on top. I assume it's ok, but my paranoia won't go away! If some rice wine vets could take a look at the pics I've posted and throw out an opinion, let me know- thanks!

Looks proper

 

[PicKl3d]

I'm going to be harvesting my first batch this wednesday but it smells very tart going to have to back sweeten it for sure I think. I pretty sure it's the yeast balls I've used I'm try out the small vietnamese yeast balls in my latest batch with thai glutinous rice to see if there is a difference might have to buy from another asian grocer but he only sells the yeast balls in two packs for the same price I get my eight packs. I like being frugal but I might have to see if it makes a difference!

 

[DanzigsMISFITS]

No liquid yet.. day 2

 

[tjmac5071]

I made this with sushi rice, after 4 weeks I just bottled mine, tried some. Tasty and sweet, would probably prefer it to be a little less sweet. I think someone mentioned using more water and that will make it so more of the sugars can convert, will probably try that next time.

 

[Newsman]

I just started another batch of this (3rd or 4th) this weekend. Soaked 1/4 cup of RYR for several hours, got two 2# bags of Jasmine Rice and cooked them at approximately 1.5:1 water:rice and let it cool. Then I ground up another 1/4 cup of RYR along with the yeast balls and mixed it all in by hand. Put a dish towel over the top and put a rubber band around the top (I'm using a glass cookie jar with a wide mouth) and I've now put it in a dark room with a fleece blanket or two to help with the darkness.
I poured the red liquid from the soaking RYR in on top of the cooked rice.

 

[MasterCrook]

I just started another batch of this (3rd or 4th) this weekend. Soaked 1/4 cup of RYR for several hours, got two 2# bags of Jasmine Rice and cooked them at approximately 1.5:1 water:rice and let it cool. Then I ground up another 1/4 cup of RYR along with the yeast balls and mixed it all in by hand. Put a dish towel over the top and put a rubber band around the top (I'm using a glass cookie jar with a wide mouth) and I've now put it in a dark room with a fleece blanket or two to help with the darkness.
I poured the red liquid from the soaking RYR in on top of the cooked rice.

Interesting procedure with the soaked RYR. Have you done it like this before? Have you compared this method with the original mentioned method for using RYR ?

 

[PicKl3d]

well I couldn't wait till wednesday and harvested tonight added a blackberry syrup to and it still tasted like a white wine but after 4 glasses I am a bit pickled lol my wife doesn't like wine but she knocked back 2 glasses to see what the effects where.

 

[jak1010]

well I couldn't wait till wednesday and harvested tonight added a blackberry syrup to and it still tasted like a white wine but after 4 glasses I am a bit pickled lol my wife doesn't like wine but she knocked back 2 glasses to see what the effects where.

What were the effects?

 

[DanzigsMISFITS]

Startimg to see activity in the jar... bubbles etc. Cant wait to try this... might start another batch in a week

 

[Newsman]

Interesting procedure with the soaked RYR. Have you done it like this before? Have you compared this method with the original mentioned method for using RYR ?

I've done this one time before. I also used ground RYR as well in the previous batch. Not sure which was the "solution" as I haven't tried them separately, but my thought was that soaking the RYR would help the spores of whatever makes the red rice red wake up. And grinding up the RYR would help spread the spores, was my thought on that. As I said, it worked fine, just don't know if it was the soaking or the grinding that worked.

 

[MasterCrook]

I've done this one time before. I also used ground RYR as well in the previous batch. Not sure which was the "solution" as I haven't tried them separately, but my thought was that soaking the RYR would help the spores of whatever makes the red rice red wake up. And grinding up the RYR would help spread the spores, was my thought on that. As I said, it worked fine, just don't know if it was the soaking or the grinding that worked.

I see, it would an interesting comparison experiment

 

[Newsman]

I see, it would an interesting comparison experiment

Yep. Guess I need to make up another batch as soon as the batch I have now is done... I have the rice and yeast balls, all I need is something to ferment it in.

 

[LBussy]

It's been a while since I read this thread but I just caught up with the last 10 pages or os. One of the most common questions seems to be where to get those damned balls if there's no local oriental foods store that carries them. Here's a company with some distributors listed:

http://www.ontoyeast.ca/

There's also a video of the making of the wine.

Apologies if someone posted this but I was not going to search through all 400 pages again.

 

[jak1010]

Or here...shameless plug.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DRIED-YEAST...243?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e851900eb