Rice wine, distill for sake

[Chriss]

Howdy howdy,

Maharajah's Choice Basmati Rice, I have a small batch racked for many months, hmm about a year and one month.
https://www.coles.com.au/product/mahara ... kg-7210045 . It was $30 last year and half price sale of $15. Now coles have it listed as an everyday price (unit it isn't)
We all know ingredients can make or break your cooking, same for distilling.

This year I purchased a 5kg of Alishaan everyday long grain basmati rice and its bland/horrid. Under $10. Just can't eat it, it smells good but hmmm.
So it will go to making another batch of rice wine, and then pit them against each other.
Stay tunned or don't, it may take me a few months to get back here again. Typing is so hard :O

[TheRealMrMessy]

Using a generic grain will probably yield you something closer to chinese rice wine than sake. You could also get the nuruk starter culture and try for soju, or use lacto and try your luck.

Might get lucky with some large asian supermarkets getting the right Japanese rice for it, but its a long shot. I tried to get some while in Sydney (admittedly during covid) and failed. Now I'm in FNQ and I struggle to get 25kg bags of sugar despite being in the middle of sugar growing central, let alone Japanese rice.

Keen to hear how you go!