Exam Flashcards
Fermentation
Organic matter (carbs/proteins) broken down by microorganisms (yeast/bacteria) and converted to specific substance
Fermented foods
Cheese, soy sauce, vinegar, yogurt, bread
Alcoholic fermentation
Converting sugar to alcohol and carbon dioxide by anaerobic metabolism of yeast
Single fermentation
Ingredient already contains sugar
Multiple fermentation
Microorganisms convert starches into sugar, then yeast makes sugar into alcohol
Single line fermentation
Beer
Multiple parallel fermentation
Alcohol fermentation and saccharification occur simultaneously
Fermented beverages
Made from fruits and grains then fermented by yeast
Wine
Liquor
Liquid produced by fermentation before distillation
Liqueur
Fruits herbs or spices are steeped or mixed into fermented beverages or liquors
(Plum wine, Campari, Kahlua, Irish cream)
Saké history periods
JOMON period- Japanese wine from grapes
YAYOI period- rice cultivation from China and kuchikami
KOFUN/ASUKA- doburoku
NARA- modern style saké production begins with koji
HEIAN- morohaku (polished rice saké)
KAMAKURA- commercial saké production, prohibition 1252
MUROMACHI- government taxes breweries
SENGOKU- distillation techniques
EDO- kanzukuri (saké in winter) hi-ire ( heat pasteurized) San Dan jikomi ( three step brewing) toji (saké Brewer styles) hashira shochu (adding shochu to the moromi mash to prevent spoilage) sumisake seishu (adding wood ash to make clear saké) miyamizu (shrine water from nada/hyogo)
MEIJI/TAISHO- nihonshu 1872 Vienna intl expo, heavy govt taxation
SHOWA- vertical polishing machine (ginjo shu), 1943 kyubetsu-seido (1st class taxed higher than 2nd), 1961 year round production, 1962 liquor tax law revised
HEISEI- 1992 saké taxed on alcohol content
Rice plants
1.African
2.Asian (japonica [uruchimai and mochigome], indica, javanica.
Over 90% consumed rice is uruchimai
Senryuju
Size of rice, weight of 1000 gms.
Saké rice is 26-28 gms.
Shinpaku
White clear center or heart of rice grain
Japanese rice cultivation
Irrigated fields
Rice plant season
Plant in May, harvest in September
Shuzo-kotekimai
Official rice for saké brewing More than 100 types 1% of total Japan rice Large grain, 25-30 gms, hard out soft in after steam, high h2o absorb All other saké rice is Sakamai
Popular shuzo kotekimai
Yamada nishiki- hyogo Gohyakumangoku- Niigata Miyama nishiki- Nagano Hattan nishiki- Hiroshima Omachi- Okayama Hanafubuki- Aomori Kinmon nishiki- Nagano Dewasansan- yamagata Koshitanrei- Niigata Ginpu- Hokkaido
Famous toji
Nanbu toji- iwate
Echigo toji- niigata
Tanba toji- hyogo
How much water for saké?
Final saké is 80% water 50 times total weight of rice Yosui: Jozo- brewing Shuzo- producing Binzume- bottling
Shubo
Yeast starter
Good water vs. bad water
Good- potassium, phosphoric acid, magnesium
Bad- iron, manganese
3 best water sources
Miyamizu- nada/hyogo
Gokosui- fushimi/Kyoto “honorable aromatic water”
Fukuryusui- mt. Fuji
Main microbes that affect saké flavor
Koji mold, yeast, and lactic acid bacteria
3 kojis
Kojikin- koji mold
Kojimai- steamed rice
Komekoji- rice active with koji cultures
3 koji molds
Yellow- saké
Black- awamori
White- shochu
Seigiku
Production of rice koji
Seimai
Rice polishing
Seimaibuai
What’s left after polishing.
Calculated by: weight of remaining rice divided by original weight, then multiplied by 100
Seimaiki
Vertical rice polishing machines
Karashi
Drying rice
Nuka
Rice bran