Guide cook delicious rice wine properly

Instructions on how to cook delicious rice wine correctly at home. The process of cooking and distilling delicious rice wine according to hygiene and safety standards.

Although many types of foreign alcohol are imported into the market today, rice wine is still a popular and indispensable wine in every holiday or meeting or festival. Cooking wine is both a business form and an elegant hobby for many people.

Each winemaker has his or her own method of making wine. Thereby creating a diversity in Vietnamese culinary culture. Being able to cook wine that is both delicious and traditional is not easy. Let's learn how to cook the most delicious rice wine in today's article 🙂






What is rice wine?

Rice wine is an alcoholic beverage fermented and distilled from rice, traditionally consumed in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. Rice wine is made from the fermentation of rice starch that has been converted into sugar. Bacteria are the source of enzymes that convert starches into sugars.


Making delicious glasses of wine is not too difficult. However, you need to pay attention to many points in the winemaking process to be able to produce delicious, traditional batches of wine.
The order of cooking rice wine
Step 1: Choose ingredients

The selection of ingredients for winemaking is also an extremely important step. It directly determines the quality of the wine produced later.

When choosing rice wine ingredients, you need to be careful when choosing rice and yeast.

There are two types of rice : plain rice and glutinous rice. You should choose rice grains that have had the husk removed and the bran still on. Because rice has bran skin, a lot of vitamin B1 is very good for health and makes wine more delicious.

Depending on the needs of use, people use plain rice or glutinous rice. Because cooking wine with glutinous rice, the finished wine will be very delicious, bold, sweet in the mouth, feeling warm. As for plain rice, it is not as delicious but the price is cheap.

Selection of yeast cake depends on the taste and experience of the winemaker . You can choose leaf yeast, traditional medicine or probiotics. Note to choose quality enamel, not moldy, dirty. Should choose to buy yeast at reputable establishments or acquaintances to avoid fake yeast.
Step 2: Cook rice wine

Cooking rice wine is also very simple. As long as you know how to cook everyday, you can cook. First of all, you have to soak the rice and wash all the dirt in the Rice and make the rice grains porous and swell, then pour it into a big pot to cook rice wine.

Depending on the need to use for family use or production for sale, you can cook a little or a lot. To cook rice, the wine is not crushed and mushy, normally the ratio of rice and water will be 1:1. The purpose is to ripen rice grains, gelatinize rice starch to help microorganisms easily ferment alcohol.
Step 3: Mix yeast

You remove the husk. Then puree or crush the yeast. Wait for the rice to cool down, then sprinkle the yeast evenly on top. Then mix well so that the yeast covers all the glutinous rice grains.
Step 4: Fermentation

Fermentation has 2 stages: dry yeast fermentation and wet yeast fermentation.

Stage 1 : Dry incubation

This is the stage of fermenting rice wine in anaerobic environment. Put the sticky rice that has been sprinkled with yeast evenly into a large-capacity glass or ceramic jar with a tight-fitting lid. After about 4-5 days, the rice cooker will automatically wake up with water and smell of wine

The suitable temperature for successful fermentation of rice wine is about 20-25 degrees Celsius. Cold weather can be overcome for brewing near the stove. If the weather is hot, but the production place does not have air conditioning, the wine will sour quickly and the yield will be low.

Stage 2 : Wet tempering

When the dry incubation period is complete. You bring fermented rice wine and add water. For every 10 kg of rice, you will add 15 liters of water, cover to make the fermentation process complete, the alcohol turns off the starch and sugar.

Wet incubation for 1-2 weeks. Time depends on the weather. When tasting rice and water, it is spicy, clear water can be distilled.
Step 5: Distilling Alcohol

Pour all the water and wine into the pot. If you want productivity and resistance, you can just squeeze the water out. When distilling, pay attention to the temperature. Avoid accidental fire or spillage. It will make the wine bitter, cloudy and difficult to drink.

First distillation : With the first distillation, we will obtain the original alcohol, which is quite heavy with an alcohol content of 55-65 degrees. With this type of wine often has a high amount of Andehyd, which is directly harmful to health, drinkers are very susceptible to alcohol poisoning. Therefore, the first distilled alcohol should not be used for drinking, but should only be used for soaking.

Second distillation: Continuing the second distillation we will be able to distill the middle alcohol. Usually this wine has an alcohol content of 35 to 45 degrees, this wine will be used to drink hot or will be distilled, stored or marketed.

3rd Distillation : Continue distilling, this time we will obtain a wine with a low alcohol content, a slightly acidic taste and no taste of alcohol anymore. This wine can only be used to mix with the base wine. The alcohol is obtained from the first distillation and then distilled again to lower the strength of the base alcohol. At this point, the same alcohol will be obtained as the second distilled (middle wine). Then store, hoard or sell.
How to cook delicious rice wine

In each region of our country, each place has its own unique culture and specialties, creating a memorable cultural feature. When it comes to traditional Vietnamese rice wine, each region has a different process of making rice wine, depending on the method and technique of the brewer, which produces a drink with a delicious and rich flavor. Here, we would like to tell you some of the most effective ways to cook delicious wine.
In the material selection process

When choosing ingredients, you need to pay attention to choosing rice so that the rice is a delicious rice, not moldy. This way it will not be bitter when cooked. It should be noted that before cooking rice, all moldy rice grains should be removed to ensure the best quality.

When spreading yeast, you need to pay attention to grinding the yeast as finely as possible. You should spread the yeast when the rice wine has cooled down or is only slightly warm. Do not sprinkle yeast while the rice wine is still hot, the rice wine will be very bitter. In addition, it should be noted that the amount of yeast spread should be moderate. The trick in sprinkling yeast is to divide the amount of yeast into 2 parts. The first part is sprinkled on top of sticky rice. Then flip the remaining rice over, sprinkle with the rest of the glaze.
In the process of fermenting

You need to pay attention to the fermentation environment. The incubation temperature in the room when dry incubation needs to reach 20 to 25 degrees Celsius. The best way to cook rice wine is to brew wine yeast in racks or trays with holes. The purpose is to separate the rice wine and the sugar water that comes out when fermenting. Doing so will help the fermentation process be faster and better. Helps you get more wine.

When wet composting, you need to find a suitable water source. The best are clean water sources that have a slightly lower pH than normal domestic water.