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Homemade Sake Recipe
Relish the malted beer-like taste of Japan's favorite rice wine!
Course:
Drinks, Alcoholic drink
Cuisine:
Japanese
Keyword:
Rice Wine, sake, Japanese sake, Japanese rice wine
Servings:
2
gallons
Author:
Ishani Bose
Ingredients
4
kg
of polished rice
1.13
kg
of koji
7.6
liters
of water
4
grams
of yeast
Instructions
Wash and steam-cook the polished rice bran.
Mix the rice with yeast and koji, a type of rice that has already been cultivated with a specific mold.
Allow the mixture to begin to ferment, adding rice, yeast, and koji over the next four days.
This fermenting mash will be allowed to sit for 3 to 5 weeks.
Press, filter, and blend the liquid that remains.