Okay, so I finally got around to harvesting today. It has officially been 24 days since it was made. It was the soonest that I could get to it and have time to harvest it.
I started with 3 large mason jars, and I am pretty sure I used 6 cups of rice, hoping for about 2 cups in each jar. These are the I think 1/2 gallon jars.
So a quick review of process:
Soaked rice overnight after rinsing off.
Cooked rice at a 1:1 ratio. Cooked most of the water out of it, then covered it and let it sit and cool.
Mixed the crushed yeast into the pot of rice.
Put rice into mason jars, lid on tight with a paper towel in between
Placed in a dark cabinet above my stove for the 24 days.
I was able to harvest and get 3 smaller mason jars, alost full. Each mason jar has about 20- 24 ounces of wine in each. Making the total of almost 60 oz. of wine! Not bad!
As far as tasting notes go, I put it into the fridge to cool a bit before trying. It started to seperate, but I mixed it before trying. It has a pretty "hot" nose, with a strong alcohol smell, with a slightly sweet, yeasty smell after. The taste is rather tangy, not super smooth, with a bit of a punch to it. Not sweet at all.
Does that seem right? I dont really know what it should taste like. The wife tasted it and i should have had a camera for her face Priceless. Its not very easy to drink. Should I back sweeten it? Not sure what I really made haha.
Here is a picture for fun. The large mason jar that is empty is what I made it in. The 3 jars of wine of course, and a bottle of Zombie Dust for scale.