Recent content by WinterWarrior

I use a rice cooker -- I'm not sure if that's considered steaming or boiling, but before I tried the sticky sweet rice it always cooked my rice to perfection. So I'll keep using that -- it's the same rice cooker I see at some Asian restaurants where they have rice constantly kept warm. It will...

Putting the rice in the bottle/jar is not the issue. I'm using a pretty wide mouth 4 or 5 liter jar. The issue I had was that the blasted rice wouldn't finish cooking. I ended up with really soggy, gluey rice. I cooked 2 batches, each with less water than I would normally use ... 2nd batch...

Thanks, MasterCrook! It's not sweet now and I tasted it on Day 15 ... so I'm not sure if that's due to the rice I used or the yeast balls ... or even the amount of yeast balls I used. First batch -- got carried away and I think I used 5 balls total (not 5 packages of 2 balls). Has anyone...

Nope, all of that is the liquid produced from the rice and the yeast balls. :) Maybe because I used sweet rice and it wasn't "fluffy" but still really sticky when I added it to the jar is why it has that milky appearance. No idea -- this is my first rodeo. So, can anyone give me an idea of how...

None. I looked at the recipes here and I didn't see where anyone was adding water -- soooooooo ... does that mean I goofed up?

Howdy! Here's a view of my rice wine at 15 days in. And a closer look. I must tell you that I had just stirred it up right before I took those shots. It was a bit clearer prior to the stir -- but not much. That's a 4 liter glass jar, so I really have no idea yet how much...

OK -- I'm just going to let it ride and see what happens. The worst is that it's undrinkable which means I'd be at the same point if I threw it out. I'm going to spoon off as much of the "black stuff" now as I can -- something about it makes me itch when I look at it (psychosomatic, I'm...

I tried ... really tried to read through 125 pages of posts, but I admit to having ADD and skipping around. I bought Sweet Rice and soaked it for 2 hours and then added it to my rice steamer. When it went off (auto on/off) I had a gooey mess with about an inch of slimy glue on top that I...

Awesome! I'm in!

Thanks -- will do that. Appreciate the quick reply!

OK, this is new and kinda freaky. I have a small commercial soda fridge (like you see in a convenience store) and I adapted it to holds 4 kegs. Fridge was free, so it works for me! I just took out all 4 kegs. Three were fine (2 were kicked and I'm filling with more yummy goodness) but I...

Welcome, Irish! :) Happy to see another brewer in PA. If you are near the Lehigh Valley I'd love to know the orchard you are talking about -- unless it's just their private orchard & press.

Brewed this up this past week and it's bubbling away. Used the OP's recipe and Crystal hops. I made a hopped cider last month dry hopping with Citra hops and it turned out awesome. Now that I've already made the graff, think I'll go back and read more than 6 pages of the thread. :)...

I'd like to know too. I've read other posts here on the subject (over on the brew side) -- even the ones with photos. I've saved the yeast slurry, but I only see 2 layers instead of 3, so I'm not sure what to use and what to throw away. And on top of that, I'm not sure when/how I'm...

I saw this the other day. It may be more work than you had in mind, but seems to be a lot lesser expensive to build than most of the presses I've seen the plans for.