H Mart in the DC area, is Korean owned. Big stores, too, but no luck. I did find RYR on ebay.
I'm surprised, H Mart here has yeast balls.
H Mart in the DC area, is Korean owned. Big stores, too, but no luck. I did find RYR on ebay.
From my experience you cannot rely on the staff at these stores to know if they carry any of this stuff or where it would be. I went to one of the local Asian grocery stores here and asked multiple people, only one kinda new what I was talking about but said they didn't sell yeast balls. While still in the store I googled it and found someones blog who made this stuff. I learned from that blog that this store did sell them and what aisle to find them in.
I started a big batch with sweet rice a little under three weeks ago, Shanghai yeast balls and RYR. Harvested today. Still very sweet, but boozy. Wondering if I harvested too soon? Well liquified, but the yeast hasn't kept up with the converted starch. Maybe too much alcohol to keep going?
Put in a gallon jug with some Lalvin 1122 and yeast energizer. Hoping another week will dry it out some.
I started a big batch with sweet rice a little under three weeks ago, Shanghai yeast balls and RYR. Harvested today. Still very sweet, but boozy. Wondering if I harvested too soon? Well liquified, but the yeast hasn't kept up with the converted starch. Maybe too much alcohol to keep going?
Put in a gallon jug with some Lalvin 1122 and yeast energizer. Hoping another week will dry it out some.
Try another batch and wait 6 weeks with the yeast balls instead and compare the outcomes. It ends sweet, but 3 weeks is generally too early for fermentation to have finished. You will also have carbonated wine if you seal it up after just 3 weeks unless you pasteurize it.
So you haven't had problems with acetobacter? One of the other threads said harvest in three weeks.
I wouldn't get your hopes up too high. With exposure to oxygen for that long I would expect a very acetic vinegar.
How do you all prep your glutenous rice? I am 1 for 3 with this stuff, I think due to inconsistencies making the rice.
Sounds like you did everything perfectly. And, it looks great. Please let us know how it turns out.So I stumbled across this thread, and figured it sounds like something to try.
I found my supplies at the Dragon Star Supermarket, in Brooklyn Park, MN.
I started my first batch last night. I went with ~3 cups of glutonous sweet rice, weighed out at 1.5 pounds. Rinsed the rice with cold water until it was running clear, about 3 minutes. Then put the strainer in a bowl and filled it with cold water to soak the rice for 30 minutes. Rinsed the rice again, and let it drain for 5 minutes before placing into my steamer bowl. You can see the Oster steamer I have in the background. I put 3 cups water on the rice and filled the steam chamber with water also. I turned the steamer on and steamed for 30 minutes. It was cooked well. Still a bit firm in the center.
Took a large cookie sheet and put a big piece of aluminum foil on the cookie sheet, and sprayed it with starsan. I dumped the rice onto the foil and spread it out in an even layer. Covered it with a sheet of muslin that was soaked, and wrung out, of starsan. It covered it perfectly. I then put it on a bakers cooling rack, in the garage. December, Minnesota, 20 degrees outside, perfect.
I let it cool for 30 minutes and prepared 3 yeast balls in my spice coffee ginder. I sprinkled the yeast over the top of the rice. Put on nitrile gloves and sprayed my hands with starsan and grabbed handfuls of the rice and placed it in my glass cookie jar. Then covered the opening with the sanitized muslin cloth and put the lid on the jar. I tucked it into my closet, which is 68 - 70 degrees, and covered it with a black cloth.
Here is what it looked like ......
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I don't trust the mold that grew on top of my rice. It's white and fuzzy with a lot of green spots. Can anybody tell me if this is anything like what grows on the rice in these kinds of wine?
Thanks for the reply.
I just ordered some ARL and RYR off Ebay.
Here was the RYR I bought.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Red-Yeast-...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649
This was the ARL I bought.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Angel-Rice...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649
Hope this helps.
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