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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.