making sake, posting twitxr
making sake, posting twitxr
sake project in progress
Posted Jun 5, 2008 0:34:23
Location: USA
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We started some new wine projects over the weekend. The big new novelty
is sake, aka rice wine usually made in Japan. I was sorta hesitant at
first because it’s hard to find good sake, so it must be really hard to
make it. The process of making it is kinda interesting. The “sake kit”
from the store included 4 pages of instructions and a packet of “mold
seeds”. We made a pound (dry weight) of steamed rice and sprinkled the
“seeds” on it in a cheescloth-covered jar until it started to get fuzzy,
then added it to three pounds (dry weight) of more steamed rice and
water and yeast. This is what it looked like just afterwards. By
morning, the rice had soaked up all the extra water and we stirred it.
Within a couple days, we’re told, we should have a “nice sake smell”
coming out of it. But we’ll see. The rice is just jasmine rice from the
grocery store and there was no “polishing” of the rice grains involved.
Oh and I got my daily twitxr script to automatically do it all by
itself. Anyone care to explain why it didnt work to put the script in
/etc/cron.daily anyways? I ended up creating a “traditional” crontab for
my personal account. But expect more pics here in the near future, and
they won’t all be boring pictures of my back yard.