Beer and other things
Although I can’t attend the Turtle Lake Brewing ” Up N Smoke” Craft Beer & BBQ Festival in Hanoi, there are certainly other ways to entertain myself in Saigon. There is a Japanese festival going on today in 9/23 park, nearby Bui Vien. Be sure to check it out if you want to try some […]
Brewing beer takes a lot of time and effort cleaning, temperature control, filtering, aerating, and many more things make it an all day adventure. Sake is technically a beer, because rice is a grain, but instead of malting and kilning the grain like most beers, it uses the enzymatic processes of Koji to convert starches […]
I love beer. I love food. Therefore, combining the two seems like a match made in heaven, right? There are two ways beer can have a great impact on food. The first is to pair beer with food. This can seem daunting at first, because it requires some research, but it isn’t too hard to […]
Today, I’d like to write a post about my favorite mold, Koji or Aspergillus oryzae. Koji is a mold that has been used by the Chinese for over 2,000 years and about 1,500 in Japan. In Chinese, it takes the name Qu麴 or QuJun 麴菌. Because Japanese is so much easier to pronounce, along with […]