■ 🕑 29. sad boy
   I tried turning 5kg of (dry) rice into rice wine, making use of a 20L
   bucket. I did not buy sticky rice and I did not steam my rice: I just
   kept throwing batches into my rice cooker. After rice cooked and cooled 
   down in the bucket, I smeared in rice wine mold-yeast 
   
   The end result was not good. Most of the rice became a thick, porridge
   like consistency. Despite containing high amounts of alcohol, the solids
   and liquids formed an undesirable team and possibly a 5th state of matter. 
   
   Starting throwing slop a bowl at a time through a filter from one bucket
   to another, and as space began to emerge in the fermentation vessel I 
   began adding water and shaking, in the hope to liberate more alcohol
   from solids. 
   
   After many hours of pointless labor, my bucket with liters of thick, 
   milky "rice wine" is just about a bust in my book. At least I can just
   distill it to make it not end up a complete waste...