I was so drunk when I posted this...
What I mean is, rack off the liquid and run it...
The sediment is useless, except maybe to reuse as trub,
that's what is like molasses... prolly 1/3 of the volume of the bucket is wasted in this way.
I didn't get red in re gosh darned flux, just to...
In no particular order... I don't add any water, although the first batch I did add distilled. I don't soak and steam the rice, although I did the first time. I do rinse the rice very well before cooking it in my rice cooker. I do soak the yeast balls and ryr in warm water. For about 20 minutes...
Looks awesome. I save money on oak chips by buying white oak "pen blanks" on ebay, about ten bucks a dozen, the screwdrivers just for scale. You can toast them in the oven or char them on your grill.
Ryr/yballs rice wine yeilded 5 ltrs, just over a gallon. It's good though, sweeter and less dry than my last batch, still tastes boozy, guesstimate 12-13%. Bringing a jar to the neighbors for the Bruins game, and got more rice cooking, going to start it back up again asap.
***Edit - The Jar was...
choong I think you're talking about nuruk and magkeoli, but I don't have any in any buckets right now. I'm scared to make it because everybody says it's an "acquired taste", and I don't want to do the work then hate it. I will eventually, no doubt....
Today is day 21 on my ryr/yeastballs batch...
Big Weekend coming up! Off Sat and Sunday, sat is 21 days on the ryr/yeastballs rice wine. Two 5 gallon batches of Gerber ready one @22% w/dady and one @14% Hodgsons Mills, and I'm going to open the ryr/masa bucket again, maybe stir it, maybe even run it. How's you guys stuff coming along?
Jocasta: What is it like? What annoys the exile?
Polyneices: One thing most of all; he cannot speak his mind.
Jocasta: This is a slave's lot you speak of, not to say what one thinks.
Polyneices: The follies of the rulers must be borne.
Jocasta: That too is painful, to join in the folly...