Home-brewed sweet wine (mash)

Overview

The main raw material of sweet wine is glutinous rice, so it is also called rice wine. In the north, it is generally called rice wine or sweet wine. A kind of sweet rice wine made by mixing steamed glutinous rice with koji and fermenting it. The brewing process is simple, the taste is sweet and mellow, and the alcohol content is very low, so it is very popular among people. Our country has used high-quality brown glutinous rice to make wine, which has a long history of more than a thousand years. Rice wine has become a daily drink for farmers.

Tags

• home cooking
• homemade sauce
• glutinous rice
• purified water
• sweet rice wine

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the glutinous rice and soak it for 3 hours (you can crush the rice grains with your hands).

   

2. 2 Put the soaked glutinous rice into the steamer and steam over high heat evenly.

   

3. 3 After steaming for 15 minutes, turn the glutinous rice and steam for another 15 minutes.

   

4. 4 Let the steamed glutinous rice cool down naturally, add purified water and knead the glutinous rice into pieces.

   

5. 5 Add 3 grams of sweet wine koji and mix well.

   

6. 6 Put the glutinous rice mixed with koji into a container, pat it tightly, and dig a small hole in the middle (to facilitate the observation of the wine).

   

7. 7 Cover with plastic wrap and place in a constant temperature oven (33 degrees Celsius) to ferment for more than 36 hours.

   

8. 8 When the small hole is filled with wine juice and the aroma of wine is fragrant, it is ready to go out.

   

9. 9 Sprinkle with wolfberry or preserved fruit and it’s ok!