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Beer is too hard? Brew Sake

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 […]

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Koji, my favorite mold

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 […]