making sake help please

[alan66]

Hi all, newby on the site, great site it is too

I want to make sake and im struggling to get my hands on kome-koji malt rice, does any one know where this can be purchased from?
Thanks
Alan

[anomalous_result]

You can get the koji kin from here to make your own kome koji, but it isn't a UK site. A slightly better looking foreign site is Leeners. Never found a UK one but one might be out there. Assuming you're UK based...

Alternatively you could do it like they used to. Chew the rice. The amylase in your saliva will convert the starch to sugars which your yeasties can get to work on.

[maxashton]

beertech.co.uk sell them, but their site has been down for a couple of days.

[alan66]

Thanks guys, i will trey beertech when there sites back up and running, i realy dont fancy chewing 3 kilo of rice lol.
Alan

Edit, i am based in staffordshire west midlands uk

[ADDLED]

Best of luck Alan. Please make me a promise; if its any good call it "Fawfuk Sake"

[alan66]

Best of luck Alan. Please make me a promise; if its any good call it "Fawfuk Sake"

Thanks buddy, haha, im sure i can live upto that promise.
Cheers

[anomalous_result]

beertech.co.uk sell them

Did not know that! Cheers.

[ADDLED]

Hey Max, still playing your choon! Man that stuff is evil!

[maxashton]

http://www.beertech.co.uk/index.php?mai ... cts_id=479

What choon? what did i do?!

[alan66]

Not much good im afraid as i want to brew 10 gallon
would work out a little more expensive than i thought, i would rather just purchase the kome-koji.
thanks
Alan

[CyberPaddy66]

I wanted to make traditional Sake once but upon reading that if you get the timing wrong you can die I thought better of it and now I only buy Sake from my local SeeWoo

[ADDLED]

I wanted to make traditional Sake once but upon reading that if you get the timing wrong you can die I thought better of it and now I only buy Sake from my local SeeWoo

Sounds fatal. How so fella?

[Ditch]

The Japs are crazy. They eat fishes that can drop ye on the spot, if prepared inexpertly. They drink drink that can kill ye too. However, they also produce the most absolutely drop dead gorgeous, free boner with every one, sex on legs Girls! No race on earth can hold a candle to the Japanese for churning out beautiful girls en mass.

In my younger and fitter days, a bottle of Saki was always popular at the karate club social do's. Some guys there made their own too. I mean, don't hang me because it wasn't bang on authentic stuff, made with masticated grains and all that. It was just " Rice and Raisin Wine ", of course. But stick a two litre jug of that in the micro wave for a minute or two and who gave a flyer!

[CyberPaddy66]

I wanted to make traditional Sake once but upon reading that if you get the timing wrong you can die I thought better of it and now I only buy Sake from my local SeeWoo

Sounds fatal. How so fella?

Aparently you have to leave the rice to ferment itself befor you add the traditional bits and that's where it gets dodgy, wild yeast on rice can produce some nasty toxins if left for too long, I'm no expert but the sites I looked at scared the bejeebus out of me

[ADDLED]

Awwww cyber. Give me a hint of the gory details and then don't give the site address. You tease!

Tbh I'd heard that you should never reheat rice, especially if its been left out overnight, but didn't really know why. Salmonella I guessed, so interesting to hear it could be far worse.