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Date of upload: Dec 11, 2020 ^^
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As a SEA boi, I'm quite glad to see you making this one. I personally think rice spirits are quite underated outside East and South East Asia. As you say in the video, rice spirits can be very pleasent to drink with an incredibly rich and sweet flavors. Sadly in Thailand the government bans small distilleries from going full commercial, so all we can get legally here are spirits from a few big factories which literally, and I can't stress this enough, literally taste like garbage, while the 'real' stuffs are brew illegally and locally in the countryside and impossible to get them in the city.
So, dear you guys moonshiners out there, please do it lol, it really tastes good.
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Amazing vid. Just want to add, sticky rice produce higher alcohol content than normal rice.
If you have a rice cooker, use it to cook the rice, let it cool down. Spread on a clean surface and sprinkle yeast of choice. At this point no water is added.
Let the rice and yeast mixture ferment in a container (preferably see through) and leave to ferment. After a few days (depending on temperature), alcohol will be produced in the form of liquid. Then add water, distilled will be best, cooked and let cool tap water is also sufficient. If you are like me, who don't mind to spend a little on bottled water, because it's easier, that's good too.😂
How much water too add? That depends on how much rice was used. I don't really measure my ingredients, rather estimate it with ratios instead. I'm Asian, so yeahh. 🤘😁🤘 A good beginning ration will be 1 part rice to 2 parts water.
Then leave it to ferment as long as you can wait. For those who can't wait, give it atleast 2 weeks. But I know of some who likes it fresh. And for those who wants more punch in their alcohol, distill is the way to go.
I have no say about distillation, for I only use more traditional style and I have not tried to build my own hack distillation rack.
Hope this helps.
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Long time professional brewer just getting into distilling. Wish you had distilled each batch separately. It was an interesting and valuable experiment quantitatively but with such wildly different variables on your grain it would have been fantastic to know if those variables lead to any qualitative distinction in the finished product. Perhaps the yeast in the batch that went low and slow produced fantastic esters? In my experience the best fermented beverages come from yeast that are required to work a little. Good on you for going real-time on your cuts. Thanks for the vid.
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For rice spirit, in China normally the rice are first soaked overnight and then steamed, then spread and mix the koji or yeast with the warm rice, and then packed in containers to ferment. Different koji or yeasts (quite like sourdough starter in bread making), such as barley-made koji (which is the famous shaoxing rice wine in China is fermented with) or rice-made koji, together with the bio-environment where the wine is fermented will produce enormously different flavour and aromatic compounds, which makes different regional rice wines.
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Great video on interesting topic. I've used 9g of these yeasts per kg of grain/flour/groats and 3-4 times water. For my tests it was about 10-15% difference in terms of ethanol efficiency between hot water treated grain and cold water treated. Also, you can just add these yeasts straight to the wash, they'll be fine. No hydration step needed.
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@goawaytours
3 years ago
I visited a rice wine distillery near Ho Chi Min City in Vietnam where they fed the rice residue to a big pig in the corner. They then collected the pig poo and collected the methane into a big bladder/bag which was stored in the rafters of the shed with a hose running down to a stove which they used to heat and cook the rice for future batches. Any poo left over went into the fields to grow more rice. 100% recycling.
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