Rice whisky

[ron]

Once had a recipe for "rice whisky", but lost it.
Not distilled, it involved round rice, lemon juice, sugar, something else, a two-gallon plastic bucket, and warm water.
Just leave it somewhere warm for about 2 weeks, then bottle.
Made some once, turned out really good, liquer type.

Anybody made it / got the recipe?

[moobli]

sorry ron
ive had a look all over the place and cant seem to find a recipe for you

[ron]

Thanks anyway moobli,

Doesn't look like anybody else has it, made it once years ago, it was very easy and very nice.
Clear sweetish liquer type.
If I do find it I'll post it up.

[moobli]

found a recipe for a rice and raisin wine
just found a first steps in winemaking by c j j berry from around 1984

[ron]

Can you post it moobli?

Maybe the raisin was the something else I can't remember.

Appreciate it if you can.

[moobli]

3lb of raisins
5lb of long grain rice
10lb of sugar
2 tablesp of citric acid
2 oz of yeast and nutrient
3 gallons of water



dissolve sugar in some heated water talen from the 3 gallons
allow to cool and pour over rice and raisins(dont chop raisins)
then add the acid and remaining water and sprinkle on the yeast and nutrient.
stir and leave in a warm place.
stir daily for 21 days then strainthrought a fine seive into three 4.5 litre (1 gallon)
fit airlocks to the jars and keep them in a warm place until fermentation stops.
then filter the wine throught a wine filter and it is then ready for drinking.
if not drinking within 2 months add 1 campden tablet per gallon and leave for 9 months .




you can use the pulp to make a lighter wine
dissolve 8lb of sugar in 4,5 litres of hot water and pour onto the rice and raisin residue add 6.7 litres of cold water plus 30g (1 oz) citric acid with freash yeast
follow the same procedure as for the first batch

[ron]

Thanks moobli,

That looks a lot like it, the one I used was only 1 gallon, but adjusting quantities shouln't be any problrm.

Just gotta give it a try now, I'll let you know how it goes.

[moobli]

glad i could help
found the book in a charity shop
be interesting to see how it turns out

[ron]

Yeah,

Charity shops, a lot of these old books in there for a few pence, and the recipies are as good as when they were written.

[moobli]

this one is a cracking book
recipes month by month
grape vine pruning
metric and imperial sg charts
and some black and white photos making look like late 50.s early 60,s
all the men are shirt and tie except the author who has a bow tie
but it has all sorts of recipes in it
worth the 50p i paid for it

[mrbenbod]

I love old books like that. I have a Boots home wine making and brewing book from 1972
and I consider it my wine making bible. Funnily enough the author also has a bow tie on in the picture.
Perhaps it's the winemakers 'uniform', best get myself to the bow tie shop.

[ron]

That's it bigalky,

Remember it now, last time I got it written on the back of a fag packet.

Thanks everybody who replied, all I need now is one of those bow ties.

[ron]

Greetings again from Cumbria.
Finally got round to putting a batch of the bigalky recipe, didn't have a bucket, so just threw it all in to the biggest pan I own.
Adjusted to fit.
1 kg sugar (Tate & Lyle)
1 kg raisins (Morrisons basic)
1 kg rice (Tesco value)
3 lemons juice (condemned shelf Tesco)
1 sachet Wilkinsons wine yeast
Didn't chop the raisins, seemed a bit too much effort to cut about 10,000 very small dried fruits in half. Sticky as well.
So just mixed it all up a week ago. It's been fermenting happily, stirred 3 times daily, smells lovely. The raisins swelled up to grape size, floating, the rice stayed at the bottom.
It looked very thick and murky, still bubbling slowly, so thought a second fermentation might help.
Found a brown demi-john at a car boot this morning, how provident, but needed to buy an air lock (Wilkinsons)
Sieve and funnel into demi-john, only about a quarter full, maybe I should have chopped the raisins. Poured warm water onto the rice / raisin mess, repeatedly until demi-john full.
(Tried eating one of the raisins, smelled OK but didn't taste so good, I was going to serve them cold with ice cream)
It's bubbling away happily through the air-lock.
Hope it turns out OK, I couldn't get a bow tie.

Further report in due course.

[ron]

After a week or so in the brown dj, obtained another one, clear, and siphoned it into this.
It seemed to clear nice, stopped fermenting.
Bottled today, 5 full bottles and half a glass of sediment, clearing nicely on the kitchen window cill.
Looks good, smells good and tastes OK (mouthful setting siphon off)
Reckoned should be just right about Xmas.

[grumpysod]

this one is a cracking book
recipes month by month
grape vine pruning
metric and imperial sg charts
and some black and white photos making look like late 50.s early 60,s
all the men are shirt and tie except the author who has a bow tie
but it has all sorts of recipes in it
worth the 50p i paid for it

Cjjjjjjjjjjjjj berry is a bit of a joke when it comes to beer, even his wine recipes are nowadays considered a bit sugar heavy.

lockwood1956 has updated the recipes in his post on his own forum wines at home