Making Baijiu (part one)
Baijiu is biggest selling spirit on the Planet. If you have never heard of it, you are not alone. Most westerners are in the same camp. So in this video we taste some baijius and start making some rice baijiu.
Making Red Rice Wine Baijiu
So here is the recipe in a nutshell…
10 Kg Sweet Fragrant Thai Rice
4x400g packs of Red Yeast Rice
2 small packs of wine yeast
Some DAP or other yeast nutrients
30 Litres of water
1 Kg Rice hulls
1) Rinse the rice - keep the rinse water if you want - its all starchy
2) Soak the rice overnight in water - again retain the water if you want.
3) Steam the rice in batches unless you have super sized steamer
4) Allow the cooked rice to cool
5) Layer the cooked rice and red-rice in your fermenter in thin layers to ensure it is mixed well
6) Leave for a few hours to give the red rice a head start - cover loosely
7) Mix up a yeast starter with some water - follow the instructions on your pack
8) If you retained the starchy water above, mix in your yeast starter and nutrients. If not use tap water. Add to the fermenter and top up with enough water to make a total of 30Litres
9) Leave for a couple of days then stir, repeat this stirring every couple of days for about a month or longer. Keep loosely covered so gas can escape, but no dirt, germs or bugs can get in. Keep it between 15 and 30 degrees C. (Best between 20 and 30) You can tell its done when it completely stops releasing bubbles when you stir.
10) Separate the red wine from the rice lees.
11) Mix the rice hulls with the rice mush to make less mushy mixture.
12) Put the wine in your still's boiler. Put the rice hulls and lees in your thumper/heavenly pot.
13) Distil without plates in pot still mode.
14) Make cuts, but remember Baijiu is usually traditionally made with few cuts and running fast and hot. You can use your discretion on this and run more slowly if you wish.
Check out @BeardedBored for his baijiu video -
• Make BAIJIU with MOLDY RICE! Chinese White...
Also look at @FuJianGrandma (its all in Chinese but you can see whats happening)
• 农村大妈酿制米酒，祖传老配方，清香甜爽，冬天喝一碗暖暖的！【是晓晓杨呀】
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