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This is not beer? Really? Indeed, they call it rice wine, but by definition a wine is made from fruit juice, here we have a cereal and beer is made from cereals. The first stage is gelatinization, then saccharification, followed by a fermentation, and that's the process I described. The only...

What I can read on that picture is Hefe which means yeast in German, they do not say what strain of yeast... It must have Rhizopus and Monascus purpureus... As an alternative method, you can also follow a normal brewing process by adding amylase at around 70°C rest for 20-30 minutes then let...

What I can read on that picture is Hefe which means yeast in German, they do not say what strain of yeast... It must have Rhizopus and Monascus purpureus... As an alternative method, you can also follow a normal brewing process by adding amylase at around 70°C rest for 20-30 minutes then let...

You can also try some yeasts from the brand Angel Yeast like Angel Rice Leaven. Method they propose: 1. Soak the glutinous rice till being crushed by finger; 2. Steam and cook the glutinous rice, and cool down to about 30°C; 3. Evenly mix Angle rice leaven into the cooked glutinous rice, place...

Good morning, I've been thinking about brewing my first beer for a while, unfortunately, even though craft beer is growing exponentially here in Thailand, we can't find all the ingredients. My project, a kind of Orval. I plan to use the BIAB method while making a few deviations from it...

In fact, it tastes like a white wine, no mango taste at all, likely due to the strain of yeast EC-1118, Champagne yeasts (Saccharomyces Banyanus).

Feel free to ask... Here the result of my Mango Champagne ...

@sonofgrok "1) A good, glutenous rice. My wife is Thai/Filipino, so we always have Thai Jasmine rice laying around which is what I will be using here." Thai Jasmine rice is a not-glutinous rice! To avoid any useless argument, just be aware that I live in Loei, Thailand and we grow glutinous rice...

We have lots of mangoes here and the price was not that high, so I asked my wife to keep some mangoes for me, we have about twelve different varieties, I managed to keep a certain balance between sweetness and acidity. My first batch was a trial... Water 10 litres Mangoes:7.5 kg Sugar:2.5 kg...

I discover the topic very late. A compressor is similar to the engine of a bike with oil in the carter, hence the need to keep it in upright position!

Apples contain a lot of pectins, the degradation of which produces methanol, pectinase could slightly decrease or even increase the amount of methanol, depending on the enzyme preparation and the variety of fruit (1) , so why bother using enzymes here... If you use a pot still start very slowly...

Somewhere in the N-E of Thailand...

Here's my BIAB style brewstand more details here: My BIAB style brew stand

Finally my project is about to be completed, I am still missing some parts though, in particular some silicone hose that I had poorly sized ... As material, I used the iron that I had left from the construction of the house, here because of the millions of termites that are in the ground, the...

What the Thai workers like to drink is their Lao Kao (white alcohol) 110 baht for one 0.625 L. bottle 40° ABV which is the maximum available in Thailand. It's made from molasses, so it's a rum, like Saeng Som, but much cheaper. If you want to mix alcohol with soda to have a whisky soda like...