How To Make & Distill Rice Wine

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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You can purchase this in New Zealand here (use "CTC" as a code to get a discount):
https://www.yeast.nz/product/yellow-l...

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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