Rice????

[Ian_]

Fellow brewmeisters, i require the tapping of your knowledge.....

I have access to rice. LOTS of rice. I have heard folklore stories of rice being used in beer making...Is this true? what is it used for? How is it used? Why does my toe hurt?
If not, is it possible to make rice wine or something like that?
Seems a shame not to tap into the resource!!

[Stomach]

Hi mate

Tsingtoa is made with rice. Its a very nice Far Eastern lager. I dont know how the rice is used though! Similarly Saki is Japanese rice wine, again I dont know how they use the rice!

Maybe a search around google?

Cheers

[themadhippy]

mekong whiskey,not the commercial stuff ,the proper stuff,rice wine ,2 pots a bit of bamboo and a fire,word of warning 1) its slightly illegal to make in the uk and 2) its bloody lethal,but poured into a fresh coconut,its very nice

[seymour]

...Tsingtoa is made with rice...

So is practically every Budweiser/Anheuser-Busch product.

Rice is a cheap source of fermentable sugar, but is tasteless and produces a very thin body. It's up to you how much to use, but realize it's going to eliminate any possibility of a full-bodied, malty beer. Also, you can't just mash it with your barley malt. You must gelatinize/cook it separately first, with water over low heat just as you would for eating, then stir it into your mash tun and continue with normal all-grain steps. If you stick to small percentages of rice, you can jack up the alcohol percentages of your regular recipes without sacrificing too much authenticity.

Yes, you can make rice wine (sake) as well, but it requires special sake yeast, or at least added enzymes because standard brewer's yeast isn't very effective at fermenting 100% rice recipes.

[Ian_]

Cheers guys.
Illegal stuff isn't good obviously!! Don't really fancy debunking the flavour of my kits, but might have a pop on a cheaply kit in the future..

[Ditch]

Yes, you can make rice wine (sake) as well, but it requires special sake yeast, or at least added enzymes because standard brewer's yeast isn't very effective at fermenting 100% rice recipes.

Rice and Raisin Wine. (Poor mans Sake. Though, I've had it side by side with the Real McCoy .....) I guess the raisins must do something about the enzymes Seymour mentions?

Dunno. Either way, my first wife used to make it by the five gallon FV. Sling a two litre jug in the micro wave. Warm it to damn near hot. Good DVD. In bed with yours. Pair of ye get amongst that sh!t? Fantastic!

[simon50]

the raisins will be used for nutrient for the yeast to help it get along with turning the hard to do rice into alcohol,

most raisins are glazed with palm oil, i don't know if you can buy them un-glazed, might be best to make your own out of grapes if you go down that route

[6470zzy]

Fellow brewmeisters, i require the tapping of your knowledge.....

I have access to rice. LOTS of rice. I have heard folklore stories of rice being used in beer making...Is this true? what is it used for? How is it used? Why does my toe hurt?

Anheuser-Busch is the largest buyer of rice in the United States. So crack open a bottle of Bud and say "adjunct"

Cheers

[Hanglow]

Rice wine is nice - if you have access to glutinous rice, which is what you need.

There is a great thread on homebrewtalk about it

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f243/making ... nt-361095/

[6470zzy]

http://www.dorsethomebrew.co.uk/beta/re ... 20Wine.pdf

Let us not forget the old favourite Rice and Raisin wine

Cheers