How To Make & Distill Rice Wine
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- I have wanted to distill rice wine (baiju or soju) for a long time. But the traditional methods always seemed like just a little too much work.
Thankfully I came across angel yeasts yellow label product. It promises to allow you to ferment starch WITHOUT mashing OR boiling! How crazy is that?!?
I decided to put it to the test to make my own distilled rice wine. Its similar to a traditional baiju or soju, more importantly its EASY to make.
After the testing in the video this is the recipe I would make again. You can split it into multiple fermenters like I did, or ferment in one larger fermenter
You will need:
6- 12 kg (13 - 26 lb) of rice (I used 6kg of medium grain)
Water
36 g (1.3 oz) Angel Label Yeast (Yellow label version!)
Method:
Mill the rice. Ideally to small course pieces
Add almost boiling water (around 3x the volume of rice)
Agitate well (A paint mixer is great)
Let it sit for 1 hr
Top up with cold or warm water as needed to reach a total volume of 55 l (14 gal) and reach a temp of 30c (86 f)
Hydrate the yeast in 35c water ( 95 f)
Add the hydrated yeast to the rice wash and agitate again
Ferment at 30c (86 f)
Wait another 3 days after fermentation has stopped then rack to your still
Run 3x stripping runs
Slowly distill the low wines in one spirit run
Make good cuts based on flavour
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00:00 Intro
00:20 Yellow Label
02:25 The Test Idea
02:55 Milling Rice
03:57 Cooked Rice Wash
05:26 Hot Water Rice Wash
05:52 Cold Water Rice Test
06:14 Hydrating The Yellow Label & Pitching
07:53 Fermentation recap
08:45 Stripping Runs
10:05 Test Results
11:46 Recommended Recipe
12:50 Spirit Run
14:59 Tasting & Thoughts
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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.
HAHAHAH that's some insane efficiency HAHAHAH
that's like hyper optimization for efficiency
Somewhere in northern Vietnam we drove through where we saw distillery stills in almost every front garden, with bicycle inner tubes as hoses. Didn't try their drinks 🤣
Amazing ingenuity!
As the old saying goes "necessity is the mother of all invention" (this as is war! Historically Unfortunately)
Ps. And GREED is the PREVENTION of the Implementation of nearly ALL that INVENTION AND PROGRESS! 🤬👍🏴🇬🇧
@@AB-C1 Literally the opposite of the truth. Greed promotes efficiency since higher efficiency means higher profits. Reusing waste products whenever possible is standard procedure in the west and it has since the beginning of time. I remember a chart of what all parts of a cow is used for from the 1800s IIRC. It used bones, fat, organs, etc... And turned it all into various products. Turning trash/waste into a product or as an input to a product is something any capitalist with any sense will do.
@@AB-C1 "GREED is the PREVENTION" no, it's not
greed is the driving force for all men to rise above subsistence
Hello everyone, I am the guy who provided Jesse with the Yellow Label Version Angel Yeast. I am sorry that our label is not very clear. I have to admit that it is rather confusing. Thank you Jesse for this great video! Mike
Since you provided it...WHERE CAN WE BUY IT?!?
what is the alcohol tolerance of this yeast?
And who doesn't have this yeast, which others can use?
what makes you stuff able to convert starch to sugar at room temprature or without having to mash in at 150deg F??
I believe it. This one dude bred a strain of genetically modified yeast to convert sugar into spidersilk, so getting one to eat slightly different food sounds easy by comparison
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.
I was thinking sticky rice would produce higher alcohol proof I mean they cook sweet foods with it here in Philippines.
@@prestonspears6078 that's correct. More sugar for the yeast to convert into alcohol. Sticky rice cakes has so many recipes and all the variants are yummy in it's own right.
lihing
sounds similar to process to make sato (almost)
Tuak hahaah
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.
How many days required for formintantio plz tell me
@@muhammadwaseem3505 about 7 days to make the milky rice wine.
Distilleries in Japan have started aging their soju (shochu) in oak barrels and it tastes amazing. You should see if you can get ahold of an old sherry cask or something and test out aging your soju for a few years.
Actually soju is Korean liquor. Japanese makes sake.
@@hdstyle1014 and also Shochu. I travel there regularly (pre Covid) and have quite a collection.
Japanese alcohol is completely different the ferment starter and digestor and completely different species of fungus compared to this one in the video.
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.
I was completely shocked that the cold water version worked. Normally rice wine is made with soaked and steamed short grain glutinous rice. The advantage to not completely cooking the rice is that separating the liquid is easy. Normally you'd press the lees to get all the liquid out. It'd be interesting to see what kind of yield you'd have gotten with the cooked rice if you squeezed it in a brew bag.
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.
Yeah it's a really good point. I actually had a 2min section in the vid about this. But it was getting long so I cut it haha.
I wanted to. But didn't want to move up to 3x 6kg tests. Thinking on it I could have just spirited run stilled in the mini pot.....
I was JUST researching this ten minutes before you uploaded. Amazing! Please make Calvados!
Cider brandy.
I am actually at the end of a run making sake where I grew the spores and made kome-koji then regular champagne yeast for fermentation. Was a lot more work involved but really turning out nice
you mean turning out rice
I'm currently about to start this myself but I'm curious if lactic acid is the only acid I can use or if I can use citric to help lower the pH in the first fermentation stage
@@bfgoalie99 you can use either. But I’ve found making a Moto (starter) where you’ll add your Latic acid has produced better sake. That said you can just hops/citric acid to you kome-koji, rice, water and yeast as a oner.
The biggest thing is when making sake is getting kome-koji right.
Best of luck
B roll on point! Love it!
love the time stamps! keep up the good work Jesse!
amazing test! thank you!
Always love the videos!
Thanks for trying this for everyone!
Thanks Jessie. I appreciate your vids.
Our traditional style is we fermented the rice with yeast about 3 month and the alcohol got taste like sweet
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Cheers my man
Love your videos because you love what you do! Please never stop making videos boss!
I really liked the compilation part of the distillation. Keep it going!
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This inspired me big time! Ive used this yeast to ferment "glutinous" rice flour, arborio rice, white flour, weetbix, tapioca starch, potato starch, rolled oats... All with no heating or mashing.... Barley next. The rolled oats is so slick and smooth, i highly recommend it and the rice is lovely too, especially after second distillation. This yeast is amazing stuff!!
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I have in the past used Rice Wine Balls, you can get them at your local Asian Grocery store, normally use sticky rice in a rice maker, you want the finished rice to be a little on the wet side , whack it in a large jar or bucket & sprinkle the crushed balls on top once it has cooled below 28c. Leave it for 2-3 weeks depending on how sweet or dry you want it, drain of the liquid & let it settle if you want a clear finish. I have also run it through my air still & let it sit on oak for 6 months, you end up with a real earthy flavoured whisky.
That’s a cool video Jesse.
Ive been thinking of doing this type of run.
Cheers mate
Dude, this was dope. That stuff works soooo fast! Gotta get some for myself:-) Really glad you tried it three ways to see how well it works, and I'm kinda freaking out about the potential for future cold water mashes!
You could try to do a Koji Whisky on your channel ;). There is no reason why the Aspergillus Flavus mold should not work with barley. That should result a wort without mashing. The Aspergillus mold produces a lot of acidic compounds and acid+ethanol=esther 😁.
@@enric.7814 Aaaand that's going on the list. Thanks!
Hey Bearded, I have a 2x25L/6 gal fermenter of rolled oats, barley, & honey done with this stuff that I will be "converting" (from Mexico of course) next week!!!
@@Rubberduck-tx2bh Awesome!
@@enric.7814 there's barley specific Koji strains too that have been bred in Asia to grow in barley for centuries 👀
@Bearded & Bored if you did a video on that I would one million percent watch!
Korea and China generally make alcohol using starter made from grains mixed with mold and yeast, including glycolytic enzymes.
In contrast, Japan grows only fungi containing glycolytic enzymes to saccharify grains, and then adds yeast to make alcohol.
The starter you used is similar to the starter I use.
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls God Bless Ya 🙏
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Interesting outcome! In a funny way!
Great vid , very informative. And BEST laugh ever bro
How cool. I have been wanting to do this but had no idea how to approach it.
By the way I have a first gen ujssm in the fermenter, smells heavenly.
I would love to see you perform a similar 'yellow label' angel yeat experiment using corn and malt to make a 'bourbon' style spirit. Cheers :)
I was thinking this as well.
I subscribed so I could have more of his laugh in my life. The education is now just the bonus.
Got me a bag of yellow angel on it's way, cant wait
I love your enthusiasm when teaching and learning about distilling and fermentation. Your crazy laugh reminds me of the lunatic song from pink floyd. Keep up the good work! tom
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.
Subscribed... this is cool and he's personable. 👍
That's unreal that the cold water version worked so well! I like your drill-powered mill, gonna have to figure out getting one of those.
Just get a paint mixer drill attachment...
@@hajosmulders he used a roller mill to mill the rice and a paint mixer to stir.. I'm pretty sure Lurid was refering to the mill.
I have used this yeast (it's actually a mix of yeast enzymes and good molds) not on rice but on wheat, I can say that full gelatinization before adding the yeast is the best way. The indications on the label try to make things simple for the user but cooking is preferable. An addition: I have used this product by harnessing its enzymes in a mash with good results, there is my post on the HD forum.
Another great video, love the videos showing the process. Been thinking about this for a while, found on ebay AU $28.50. Might see how it works on Maize meal.
I really liked the video.... But I loved the description, that makes it so much easier to try and do yourself. Now that you've done it would you suggest trying with more rice than you originally used?
good video...
Great video! I wonder if this type of yeast could be used to brew with "pearl" or "pot" barley using the techniques you demonstrated with rice? Would the resulting liquor be considered a 'whiskey' since it was made with barley?
I just ran my first batch of Shochu in a 3 gallon pot still with a thumper. What I did was use 5# of short grain sushi rice that was cracked in a blender (no grain mill) and mixed with 2.5 gallons of water. Stirred constantly during the boil until completely gelitinized. Cooled down until around 155F. Added 2 pounds of malted 6 row barley and allowed a saccharification rest for 60 minutes. Added a pack of amylase b to help break down the sugar chains.
Lined a 5 gallon bucket with a brew in a bag and topped off with water. Added a bit of sugar to get the potental alcohol to 15% or so. I ground up 6 chinese yeast balls from a local asian market and pitched. I then checked the fermentation and allowed to go for about 3 weeks. Pulled the bag with the rice solids and squeezed it like it owed me money. I then racked into a clean carboy and let the other solids settle out for a few days. Two stripping runs that yielded just under 2 gallons so did another 3 gallon ferment.
Ran a spirit run and ended up with just under a quart of 78% after the cuts. first 120ml jar came out at 82% followed by 4 120ml jars at 85% followed by 4 120ml jars of 80%. i cut the tails at 78% as the mouth feel was extremely astringent and was not pleasant.
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Hi Jessie thanks for another cool video. I have a question not related to this video. When I distill my all grain whiskey, its came out very sweet. I am using a pot still with Cooper mesh in the column. Wash FG is usually 1.000. I am not using corn only barley and rye malt
Came out of curiosity and got an Uncle Roger reference. Fuiyoh 😌
Kay, when my Korean neighbor made rice wine (when I was a kid) he would use *Cooked* rice as the starting point let it cool add a little bit of extra water to moisten it, then add crushed yeast balls (you can buy them at Asian markets) while they only say "yeast" on the ingredients they clearly also have the enzimes (or maybe another culture organism) that turns the starch into sugar for the yeast to turn to alcohol. I have a batch working right now, which is why I decided to watch this video. I used half 'sweet' glutinous rice (a very high starch rice) and half Jasmin rice (because I love the way it tastes). I have made it before with just one or the other and both work.
To me, this is a god send episode. I have been using Chinese Rice Balls, which are dubious at best. There is little to no consistency in those types of products, which I never had any issues with until recently. The last batch of yeast balls was defunct and produced only sugar water, but no alcohol conversion... so this yellow label yeast seems like a gift from a consistency standpoint. I wish you had tasted the wash @ 20% ABV to give taste notes... as that is how I drink my rice wine.
Thank you
Thank you~!!
I love that you mentioned Nigel Ng xD made me chuckle
I've been making Rice whiskey for years. I do mash it. Rice whiskey is amazing! I've used both milled and flaked Rice. I usually save a gallon of wash as Saki its really yummy. Thanks for the fun video. I've always use plane old DADY yeast. Thanks for the neat video.
I have read and seen japanese use a mold to convert starch in rice to a fermentable sugar through a laborious process then fermenting the rice with yeasts. How did you achieve fermentation. In this video there is no explanation as what are the ingridients of the yeast package nor how starch became fermentable. If you have any explanations...it is appreciated. Sam from Iran 🤣🤣🤣.
@@samfarahani7772 I Sam from Iran I hope your doing well. I just do a mash with rice just like a mash with corn. I either gelatinize it or use flaked rice. Then I use 6 row barely or powdered enzimes to convert the starches. I also add some unrefiend sugar to get the ABV to about 10%. I hope this helps if you need more explanation ill keep an eye out for any questions.
I've seen vids of people uesing mold as well but I've never tried it my slef .
@@samfarahani7772 The Angel contains Rhizopus, yeast, amylase and protease.
The Rhizopus is able to attack the starch and hydrolyse it without gelatinisation. This is "dry hydrolysis". The Rhizopus also excretes amylase to help saccarify the starch. Once the starch is converted to sugar the yeast converts it to ethanol.
It does all the usual steps in mashing and fermenting but at the same time.
Hi, is there an alternative for yeast?
@@johnivy2008 I dont think so you can use chines yeast balls they have a different fungus than just yeast in them. JiuQu it usually comes in balls you have to smash up. Look on ebay then brows threw some UA-cam videos on making traditional saki
I gotta try this to make makkeolli!
wicked thankyou MATE
Very fun. I have made Sake four times from scratch. Staring with making the koji. It is about a 3 month process and then another 3-6 months of aging before it is really enjoyable. The process is of Sake is much more time consuming as there are multiple "fermiation" steps where you add more koji, rice and water.
Instead of coking the rice, I would have recommended steaming, but in the case of this rice wine it probably wouldn't have made much of a difference.
With regards to the Boiled Rice. It absorbs a lot more water and swells. When I've make SAKE I have to press the rice to get the fluids out of the "porridge". In my case it is a mesh bad in a fruit press, but you could use the hang and drip method (twisting the bag to help speed it up some). Again, in the case of sake you then have multiple rakings trying to leave the settled solids at the bottom.
Transferring this to rice wine, I would put it in a bag (hang and twist), let it settle for a day and siphon off. I think you would up the output this way.
On the subject of the boiled rice wash not settling out well - if you have 3 liters of trub/residue left, that is a reasonable volume for cold crashing. That may help salvage some of the residual wash.
Wine maker here, I’ve got the regular Angel Rice Leaven packets and have two rice wines going with it and a banana as well (I figured since they were starchy as well...). I haven’t made the jump to distilling yet, but thanks for the great content!
How’d they turn out?
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Jesse, I really enjoyed your video with curiosity about the result of your experiment. I think the yeast is mixed with enzyme I hope to use it someday. I’m from Korea and I’m distilling Soju unlike what you did. 😅. But you did a good job.
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Howdy Jesse ! I'm RickO from PA USA .. I'm new .. and I'm hooked ... on your great "gateway" videos. I just run 'n cut my 1st ever batch, a Sugar Wash (Strip then Spirit Reflux) and now I'm heading to the Rice bin with a batcha Yellow Label yeast... following your lead n keeping George nearby. Luv you 2 guys! 'n THANKS bunches fer my batches ! I'magonna try fruits next, as they ripen locally, and my bee hive's honey's on the horizon. (fingers crossed) ... Anyway, I've heard you say WHO makes your outta this world spirits shirts, but I just can't fish it out of all the vids so ... Plzplzplz parley the Printer if possible (again) that I might score a spectacular spacey shirt from them. ..'n yep ... I got a new Hobby Habit ... "Chasin' the Craft" .. thanks again!
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You should try washing the rice so that it runs relatively clear before proceeding with your brewing process. This gets rid of alot of the rough starches, and should leave you wtih a cleaner, florally and touch lighter on the mouthfeel spirit. Amazing vid
Jesse- Love the bits of wisdom you have given over the years. I've been a brewer for a while and just moved where I can do a little home distilling without worry. I have watched quite a few other vids and some say that both sugar wash and rice wine have so little impurities taking 2 shots is enough for the heads. Is this true or BS? Both my wife and I LOVE Soju - even to the point I came home from work with her starting a brew batch of Makgeolli. SHE don't brew... I was so proud! ;)
First try (and fighting all my urges to let it totally ferment out) still let it go a tad too long so we got a touch sour in the mix. Next batch will be 5-7 days max. Distilling now and it was nasty rocket fuel for about 4 shots worth. I'm into the hearts now Still got about an hour to go....wish me luck! :) Any advice would be welcomed O' Master Distiller.
Yep just did this
Ok a new potato brew is needed! 1st
Crush and blitz the potatoes cold uncooked. Make PH 5.4. Warm to 30°C pitch yeast.. that could be very interesting taste wise. Genuine Poitin from wild free ranging stills in Cork area is extremely flowery flavoured and quite sweet on the palate.
Worth a try??? ;)
Tried it, the yield with yellow angel yeasts was terribly low. Potato starch was like 8 times more effective.
@@Tyresio12 interesting. Well refined potato flour / starch is more or less 90%'ish pure long chain glucose molecules. Raw potatoes are rarely more than a few % dry matter they are like most vegetables mostly water. To get the same amount of starches as from a bag of refined starch added to water would be very hard. Floury potatoes are much better than the waxy ones.
How was the brew? Taste ok?
@@williamarmstrong7199 I ran only small scale test runs. In both cases fermentation was slow, looks like Koji angel yeasts don't particularly like potatoes. Possibly some additional nutrients, like DAP would be needed. During the fermentation boiled, mashed potatoes had not particularly pleasant smell, something like faint version of butyric acid. The distillate however turned out pretty good for a stripping run product, without any unpleasant flavours. Starch fermented cleaner, without wierd aromas. Calculating per 95%alcohol, I got 44ml/kg of boiled potatoes and 330ml/kg of potato starch. The first one's yield's abysmally low, and even the second one should be twice as much. They work much better with grains. Apparently, something's wrong with potatoes, my current hypothesis is that potatoes may lack some crucial nutrients. One day I'll check it.
I don't bother with squeezing the most of my still, I give the heads to my lawn mower gas tank; she is very happy doing her job.
This stuff ages really well on oak by the way.
@Jo Ke Yes it would. Some Japanese Whiskies are made from rice for example.
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Hello, living in Vietnam during the Covid and decided to try and make this. I will be using Vietnamese rice balls (VN version of koji, I think). They are about $1.50usd for enough to do 10kg of rice. Wish me luck!
Yes! We agree about +/- 50% ABV to collect! Yes! I do it all the time! 😇
As someone with only experience making rice wine through traditional Thai methods (crushed yeast balls mixed into cooked rice), this was a bit different to me. One question I have is the type of rice you are using. It seems to be a standard short to medium grain rice. I’ve never made rice wine with anything but sticky/glutinous rice. These have a much much higher starch(and therefore sugar) content and lend wonderfully to making spirits.
Cool video and awesome concept. Was just wondering if this could be done with any other kind of yeast as im not sure where to find this product?
Thanks Jesse. I really liked the three test runs. Never thought about doing that super cool. I’m personally thinking cooking is not worth the energy Oh. What about left over rice from your favorite Asian place! I’m
Getting take out tonight lol
If you work with koji, which might be a component of that yellow angel (haven't researched it), you could bust out sake in a little over two weeks, though ideally longer if you want it smooth. Anyhow, fermentation alone will get it around 20 percent. Distilling from there... Is beyond me. Thx for the video!
Did you factor in the additional time/energy/resources wasted for the cooked and uncooked hot versions when comparing their efficiency to the cold one?
It is cool with this Yellow Label Angel Yeast
What I have found that works really well to cook your rice and prevent scorching is to get a really large pot, fill it just over half full with water, bring the water to a rolling boil, turn off the heat, add your rice, cover with a lid and let it set for 35-45 minutes. I stir it about Avery 10 minutes or so. I cooked 15 lbs of rice like this with no scorch.
Love the channel! Keep on keeping on!
Absorbsion method also saves on fuel costs, and gives a better taste to the rice, i.m.o.
It would have been interesting to see what you thought of the taste of each before you distilled it, being that rice wine of this type is made all over Vietnam and neighbouring countries (which ranges from very drinkable to something you'd only use to wash your paint brushes in).
wow sounds like it was kinda successful, on your second run did you just add the spirit as is in the still or do you proof it down to 20%abv with water or left over sour backwash ?
Thanks so much for making this. It answered a lot of my questions! I am curious what the starting gravity was for your 3 mashes? Seems to me with 2kg of rice in 18L H2O you would be around 1.030 at best?
Hi mate I have just bought a T500 still and i lovr the way you have adapted it to work a s a pot still i would be very interested i giving that a try. how ever how do you regulate the water flow through the condenser is there a liter per hour reading or do you use exhaust temp.
I have had my turbo 500 sitting here for 9 months just waiting to use, your videos are giving me a lot of hope. But more to the point of this particular video, what about trying with sweet rice instead? I have just made a tuak (Malaysian rice wine) and swapped out the white sugar with corn sugar, its pretty good. Looking forward to more vids my man. Also if you can link me one of your videos of 'distiling for idiots' that would be grand.
So far this is working great. Two days into fermentation and I have about 50 gallons of it going strong.
As a follow up here. My gravity ended at an astonishing 0.990. Nice and dry. Pleasant, but interesting aroma. It was definitely a bugger to get all the solids out and squeeze it through a bag, but seems to be totally worth the effort. I ran a stripping run of it and if I had to guess, I'd say I got just a little tiny bit less than I'd expect from an all-grain mash strip run- I get pretty good efficiency on those right around 80%, so I'd say this rice mash was a winner.
Thought I'd post another follow up. I ended up barreling 30 gallons of this at 62.5% about one year ago. I took out a sample, proofed it down and it's quite fantastic. Everyone who I gave tastes to thought it was great. It'll be going in the tasting room at 30-40 a bottle for sure. Thanks again!
I haven't been able to source the Angel 'Starter of Liquor Making' yellow label product from anywhere other than an order right from China, but I am curious to try it. I have done a rice whiskey with cooked rice and converted with alpha and beta amylase enzymes and EC-1118 yeast. I found similarly to you that the tails are relatively non-offensive, heads are minimal and the cut that makes the blend is rather wide. Creamy mouthfeel, mild alcohol heat and a sweetness along with hints of the rice on both the nose and palate make it a very pleasant product. It is great white or lightly oaked with toasted wood, no char. That pumps up the character quite a bit. Also an excellent mixer. Keep up the good work!
Shanghai yeast balls are also an option
I have looked for yeast balls as well without success. I just don't have a really good Asian market that I'm aware of within an hour or so drive. I will eventually just order them online and wait.
Check the Spiritferm if they ship to your country, they have "Koji yeasts" in their offer.
@@Tyresio12 their website got hacked. I got a million redirects when I clicked the link from google
Check the video description, it is available on this NZ website
www.yeast.nz/product/yellow-label-version-distillers-yeast/
Use this CTC as coupon code.
I use Heng Lung Brand yeast balls here in the states with milled boiled rice..
i've saeen you distill some weird stuff, i'd love to see you distill acorns and cattail root, both have a good amount of starch and the acorns would definitely be interesting to find out what kinds of flavors carry over
I'm starting a wash this weekend using the yeast balls. My local brew store got some in.. funny enough it's the same local brew store as bearded and bored.
I have yeast balls from a local Chinese grocer - like Jesse's yeast they contain the bacteria that breaks down starches and possibly proteins. Glutinous rice is not only a little sweeter, it isn't polished like regular rice so can be used without cracking, but cracking it is better.
Listening to the results of the distillation run and tails; and adding another Sake comparison. I wonder if getting ahold of polished rice of at least 70% or better would make a difference as it removes the outer protien/bran layer.
I was able to purchase rice polished (milled ) to 60% which is Ginjo grade. The finniest sakes is Daiginjo is at 50%. Table rice at 93% (I think). It would be interesting to try this with finer milled rice, if you could find it. It might allow you get more out of the distillation.
Good one Jesse! I've had a bag in the fridge for a few months. Looking forward to making a rice/wheat vodka using my CCVM. Wish there was some place other than China that made it. Takes forever to ship.
Nice man. You may find a local supplier. There is one in NZ now :)
See if you can't find chinese yeast balls like shanghai yeast balls
I can't distill where I am but, I have used the "yeast balls" you can find in chinese, and I'm sure any asian grocers, to make rice beer/wine. It can come out pretty bland and sweet when very young, meaning the first clear liquid poured off as you see separation. Aged it gets floral and has like a slight sour, tropical fruit tang. Was made using steamed rice, fully cooked but not mushy. Easily finished in under a month but can set on the lee's a while with no problem. I've found that this is one of the cleanest tasting hot weather ferments I've seen. All in all good stuff. And yes, the rice you use changes the brew slightly.
How many required for formintantio
I have used both yeast balls and leaven (Angel yeast) to make rice wine. The results differ in two ways. Leaven yielded less wine but clear. Yeast balls yielded more wine but cloudy. Cloudy like will not settle out after 2 months of conditioning. Both are good but taste completely different.
Jesse it seems to me that as the rice has no husk it should not be nessessay to crush it because it is being softened in hot water anyway?
Jesse, love your show!
Followed your hot water version with three varieties of short grain sushi rice. 24 hours later all three had the smell of rotten eggs.
Google revealed a solution on a wine blog - wish I could credit it but I cannot find it now.
I added yeast nutrient to my 4+ gallon brews (3 tsp rather than 4) then agitated aggressively until the rotten egg smell was gone.
Added another 6g yellow label on the basis that the first 12g did not multiply properly then agitated aggressively, introducing as much air as possible.
Lowered the fermenting temp to 72F (22C).
I now have the lovely smell of sweet ferment ... hoping it will last through the remaining 2 weeks.
Also, I noticed that the instructions of the yellow label bag indicate that you should try to use it all once you open the bag. Yikes! It's expensive and I would hate to lose it all so I dropped in in a ziplock bag with a couple of silica gel packets and hope it will last.
Have a kick-ass week and I will try to follow-up with the results of my rescued ferment!
Another 24 hours has past for a total of 56 hours since the yeast was pitched. The lovely fragrance that was coming off yesterday is starting to fade and I am picking up a little funny smell - maybe I am over-sensitive about these batches. I am thinking about aerating them again as I contemplate the anaerobic phase.
Made It!
10# rice - milled in barley crusher
23 gm yeast
230 gm water for yeast hydration
filled up 7.5 gallon tub with RO water
waited for almost three weeks and distilled
The batch made almost 5 pints with average ABV 135 total. The hearts were about 2 pints at 12 ABV.
I did notice that when diluting it, that some parts of the run became slightly hazy. IMHO this is a very efficient yeast with enzyme included and makes more yield than I get from an all grain mash.
I think that I will try the yeast with some whiskey mash and see what changes.
A question for you Jesse... Im fermenting some raw barley with this yellow label angel yeast which is going along nicely, do you think the flavour of malted barley is important for making whiskey? I guess I'll find out soon enough
as for your grinding did you use something wider to crack the rice then go down another step to break it again, 2 step grind. if possible you might be able to do a 3 step grind to get finer, might not be able to do much at once by why not a coffee/spice grinder that get it do a powder. wonder did you think about straining it with cheese cloth? thoughts on making some of the flavored ones, like a plumb or maybe a rose flavored one.