Rice wine is a sweet and mild-tasting alcoholic beverage made by fermenting and distilling fermented white rice.
Ingredients:
- 20g Angel yellow label yeast
- 3kg short grain white rice
Fermentation Method:
- Add rice and 8L of boiling water to your fermentation bucket and allow to soak for 1 hour
- Top up with cold water to 20L mark
- Add yeast and combine – make sure sure aerate well
- Allow to ferment for 2 weeks or until airlock stop bubbling
Distilling Method:
- Start by doing a stripping run through your pot still
- Then dilute distillate down to 40% ABV
- Next perform a spirit run through your pot still
- Make appropriate cuts
- Dilute final product down to 43% and bottle your rice wine
