Moonshine from rice: 5 recipes at home

When it comes to rice vodka or moonshine, many people think it is sake for some reason. But the Japanese alcoholic beverage is not vodka at all, and there is no such stage as "distillation" in the process of its preparation.

And for the preparation of homemade rice moonshine, you can use the cheapest raw materials, this will not affect the taste of the finished product in any way.

Rice brew at home

Rice brew, in principle, like other cereal distillates, is very demanding on the temperature regime and it is a very risky business to start cooking it without a kitchen thermometer. This is due to the fact that it is simply impossible to determine exactly 63 degrees by eye.

And as a result, you can spoil the "saccharification", which is so necessary to break down the starch in the grains into glucose.

Despite the cereal base, rice moonshine is characterized by mildness in taste.

Ingredients

1. Rice - 3 kg

2. Water - 17 liters

3. Malt (rye, barley or wheat) - 500 g

4. Pressed yeast - 75 g

The method of preparation

1. Rinse rice thoroughly and cover with 10 liters of water.

2. Then put the container on the fire, bring to a boil and cook for another 40 minutes. Be sure to stir so that the rice does not burn.

3. Also, during the cooking process, add another 2 liters of water in parts. As a result, we should get a homogeneous thick porridge.

4. Now cover the container with a lid and cool the rice porridge to 65-68 degrees.

5. While the mass is cooling, we need to prepare the malt. To do this, pass it through a meat grinder and dilute it with one liter of water.

6. After the porridge has reached the desired temperature, add the prepared malt to it and knead until smooth.

7. Heat the mass to 63 degrees and continue to maintain the specified temperature for another 1.5 hours.

8. After 90 minutes, urgently cool the wort to 25-28 degrees. To speed up the process, you can use cold water, just dip the pan into a pre-filled bathtub.

9. After cooling, add diluted yeast, another liter of water to the wort and pour it into a glass fermentation container.

10. Install a water seal or you can use a rubber glove, just be sure to make a hole in one of your fingers with a needle.

11. Transfer the wort to a dark place where a stable temperature of 18-25 degrees is maintained for 4-7 days.

12. At the end of fermentation, the brew must be filtered. This is necessary so that solid particles do not burn during the distillation process and the finished product does not become bitter.

The basic method of making rice moonshine (suitable for all recipes below...)

1. Distill the strained rice brew through a moonshine still. After the strength in the jet drops below 30 degrees, stop collecting the distillate.

2. Measure the strength and determine the amount of pure alcohol. Then the distillate must be diluted with water to 20 degrees.

3. Distill the diluted moonshine again through a cube. Be sure to collect the first 12-15% of the product in a separate container. This fraction, often called "head" is dangerous to our health due to its high methanol content.

4. As soon as the strength in the jet drops below 45 degrees, stop collecting the main product.

5. Dilute the rice moonshine with clean water to 40-45 degrees and leave for 1-2 days in the refrigerator or cellar. This is necessary to stabilize the taste.

6. The result is a very mild drink with a light, even subtle aroma of rice.

Rice moonshine recipe with crushed malt

Ingredients

1. Rice - 3 kg

2. Yeast - 200 g

3. Purified water - 12 liters

4. Crushed malt - 3 cups

The method of preparation

1. Cook the rice (almost until tender) in a full volume of water.

2. Prepare malt in advance, pass it through a meat grinder and add to the rice.

3. Wait for the mixture to cool and leave it for 10 hours.

4. Re-heat the mass and dilute the yeast in it.

5. Leave the brew in a dark place for a week. Distill the distillate twice separating the heads and tails.

Rice and malaga moonshine recipe

Ingredients

1. Rough rice - 1 cup

2. Malaga - 1 bottle

3. Raisins - 400 g

4. Sugar syrup

5. Yeast (brewer's yeast) - 200 g

6. Purified water - 12.5 liters

The method of preparation

1. Pour raisins into a saucepan and cover them with two glasses of water. Put on low heat and cook for 15 minutes, let it cool.

2. Combine all of the above ingredients in a large can, mix the liquid thoroughly, and then leave in a warm place for 4 days.

3. After 4 days, pour 12 liters of purified water into the mash and leave it for another day.

4. First, strain the finished brew through cheesecloth, tightly placed in a colander.

5. Next, the liquid needs to be purified. For this purpose, you can use crushed activated carbon.

6. After filtration, the finished brew is distilled. To do this, prepare three containers that can be pre-signed with a marker: head, main product, tail. This is necessary in order to separate low-quality fractions.

Recipe for rice moonshine with beer

Ingredients

1. Rice groats - 2 cups

2. Granulated sugar - 3 cups

3. Purified water - 2.5 liters

4. Beer - 1 bottle

The method of preparation

1. Pour rice cereal and sugar into a glass bottle, pour a bottle of beer (0.5 l).

2. Next, water is poured into the mixture so that the glass vessel is not completely filled.

3. The bottle is covered tightly with gauze folded in several layers.

4. The fermentation process, according to this recipe, takes about 3 days, after which it is recommended to distill the distillate twice with separation into fractions.

Recipe for rice moonshine with green malt

Ingredients

1. Rice - 2 kg

2. Sugar - 1.3 kg

3. Water - 10 liters

4. Dry yeast - 20 g

5. Green malt - 1.5 kg

The method of preparation

1. Pour 5 liters of purified water into a large saucepan and add the rice, previously washed under a cold stream.

2. The rice must be cooked until it is fully cooked. Let the porridge cool before further use.

3. Pass the green malt through a meat grinder and pour it into the finished rice.

4. Let the mixture of porridge and malt stand for three hours.

5. Dissolve yeast in warm water, combine with sugar and leave until the sugar is completely dissolved.

6. Combine all the ingredients and send to fermentation.

7. You can use ordinary milk or activated carbon as a filter for rice moonshine.

8. The finished brew should be thoroughly filtered and distilled.

Update: 16.04.2018

Category: Vodka an Moonshine