Saki

[avtovaz]

Has anyone here brewed it? Just looking at some recapies i searched for on google...

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really fancy making some, but dont really understand or know where to get some of the ingredience from or what to do witht hem...


anyone talk to me in special needs talk? Im learning... Slowly ok...

[thedeckking]

The traditional recipe looks quite straight forward. Most the ingredients should be easily found. For the Kome-koji have a look here

[avtovaz]

Reading the thread it looks like if you dont do it right -YOU WILL DIE

SO i think ill look out ofr a bottle of it first and taste it that way.


Looks very interesting though! Thanks for the reply!

[thedeckking]

I did a bit of googling and got to the point where I though it'd be fun to have a go myself then read the stuff about it killing you and thought I'd give it a miss and stick with the wine and beer

[avtovaz]

Can you actually buy it over here? I know you wont get it bargin booze, but i really want to try some.

[potatoes]

You can buy sake over here (UK), but you need to go to a chinese super market. They will have chinese rice wine which I dont like much, and they will japanese sake. Note, it will be expensive. I drank it a lot in Japan when I was living there. Its best served warm (put in the microwave for 20 secs) on a very cold night. Note, it will taste a bit like straight vodka, but not as harsh and the best part of drinking it is the after taste. So sip it from a small glass. Dont drink it in shots!

Spuds,

[LegTaste]

For those who are interested sake is pronounced sar-keh

anyway i would steer away from that dragon sake the supermartkets sell now, its awful, and its made in the Netherlands

They used to sell the Japanese stuff, and it wasn't a bad one.

I enjoy a good sake, but there are loads that i would find too harsh and undrinkable, just like with wine. The best ones are served cold.

I dont know about death from a failed brew, but the toxin thing someone mentioned, all rice has spores, and if kept at the right temperature for long enough (around body temperature i think) they will produce toxins that will give you food poisoning, you don't have to try and make sake to get that.

[avtovaz]

i really really want to try some good stuff...