About using rice…
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2023 2:52 pm
OK, let’s face it. I’m not the sharpest tack in the box.
That said, I’ve spent a good portion of the past few hours exploring about making alcohol from rice, mostly from YouTube videos… and candidly, I’m apparently missing something.
Some context…I’ve been doing all grains and some sugar washes for several years, so feeling pretty comfortable with using my current tools: mostly a small pot with several variations of columns or my little Alembic or one of my pot still’s columns
My whole tool line is 100% copper. I’m thinking about using rice, in combination with my Cracked corn and ground White Wheat, to make a whiskey.
What I’ve learned is that, at one time, some guys in Louisiana took a similar route, but I can’t find any hints about how they did it. The review of the traditional methods from the Far East seem to be not something that would lend itself to my tool cluster, not my mind set for mashing, fermenting and distilling.
Is there a way to simply grind the rice, maybe mixing it into the corn, giving it a traditional cook to gelatinize it, toss in some enzymes, and use a (semi) standard fermenting process?
Are there any other options that might blend into our traditional whiskey making processes? Anyone have a recipe they’d offer?
That said, I’ve spent a good portion of the past few hours exploring about making alcohol from rice, mostly from YouTube videos… and candidly, I’m apparently missing something.
Some context…I’ve been doing all grains and some sugar washes for several years, so feeling pretty comfortable with using my current tools: mostly a small pot with several variations of columns or my little Alembic or one of my pot still’s columns
My whole tool line is 100% copper. I’m thinking about using rice, in combination with my Cracked corn and ground White Wheat, to make a whiskey.
What I’ve learned is that, at one time, some guys in Louisiana took a similar route, but I can’t find any hints about how they did it. The review of the traditional methods from the Far East seem to be not something that would lend itself to my tool cluster, not my mind set for mashing, fermenting and distilling.
Is there a way to simply grind the rice, maybe mixing it into the corn, giving it a traditional cook to gelatinize it, toss in some enzymes, and use a (semi) standard fermenting process?
Are there any other options that might blend into our traditional whiskey making processes? Anyone have a recipe they’d offer?