The mold spores (koji-kin) is generally available at homebrew supply shops, locally or online. Alternatively, prepared koji can be purchased from Asian grocers. If neither happens to be available in your area, you can order prepared koji from HomeBrewSaké.com or F. H. Steinbart Co.; and koji-kin from online homebrew supply shops like Northern Brewer or William's Brewing.so the mold is available at wine shops then?
You mean this? No offense intended, but that is a far cry from being a complete sake making kit. Where's the fermenter? How about a joso bag? Glass jugs, stoppers, and airlocks for secondary? How about some bentonite or some other fining agent? Or maybe some bottles?You can buy a complete sake making kit at many LHBS's. The Wine Maker's Toy Store sells them, I know.
Yeah, and? Did you actually read the description of the rice sold in that kit? This ain't no supermarket white rice, my friend. What he sells is premium ginjo grade sake rice, milled down to 60% of its original weight, that is supplied to him from the SakeOne brewery there in Portland.Then you're paying for shipping 10lbs of rice.![]()
Awesome... I was wondering where he/she was getting that rice from. I won't have room in my fermentation fridge for my initial sake try for a few months, but I'll be taking a good hard look at that kit now that I know that. I'll have to check out the rest of the site as well... maybe they sell the rice by itself as well.Yeah, and? Did you actually read the description of the rice sold in that kit? This ain't no supermarket white rice, my friend. What he sells is premium ginjo grade sake rice, milled down to 60% of its original weight, that is supplied to him from the SakeOne brewery there in Portland.
If it's good enough for a professional sake brewery to use, it's good enough for me to pay shipping for - and I live in Alaska!
Seriously, don't diss it until you've tried it.
He does. So does F. H. Steinbart Co..maybe they sell the rice by itself as well.
You see it a lot on many forums, actually. Sometimes it makes me want to explode.arcticsid said:I see alot of this on this forumn, people wanting to take shortcuts, even after the correct advice is given, people want to continue with shortcuts and they are back in a couple weeks asking what went wrong.
You're both right and wrong there. That's a high estimate for that kit, but it would be a low estimate for a properly made sake. My sake routinely comes in at 19-20% ABV, which is normal even for commercial varieties. This is called genshu sake, and it's usually diluted down to 14-16% ABV before being sold. This is done for many reasons: taxes, flavor, and yield being chief among them.I don't have a problem paying for quality. I just don't know if I could tell difference in quality with Sake as I have not drank that much of it. Although on the cheap kit the ABV of 14-18 seems really high compared to most Sake I've seen.
Awesome! Thanks so much for that link. I can't wait to free up some space to try my hand at sake later this year.He does. So does F. H. Steinbart Co..