Rhapsody Natural Foods Organic Rice Koji, Kome Koji (Amazake/Rice milk) 16 oz (1 lbs)

I have been making my own amazake and buying Organic Brown Rice Koji, made in Japan, from a different source, more expensive. Since this is from Vermont, I thought I'd try it, even though I had to pay shipping, it still came in at a good value. And it worked, exactly the same as the other one.

Unbeatable quality! I purchased different brands to compare. This brand is so reliable and surely makes my rice very sweet. I don't mind the price considering no more waste of the material, time, and effort.

Great for making your own miso, though quite pricey. Still, what other options do you have?

Not only to make Miso, but I use it in any kind of soup.

Legitimate

If you need koji rice for a project at home, whether you want to make amazake, miso, shio koji, mirin, fermented tofu, sake, etc. -- the finished product from Rhapsody Natural Foods will not let you down. I make my own kome-koji as well, but like to try the different brands out there so I can refer members from various fermentation based Facebook groups (The Art of Miso 1.6K members, Wild Fermentation 70K members - to name a few) to different companies placed across the US. Rhapsody Natural Foods nailed it with their brown rice kome koji, you can pick a grade for amazake, short or long miso. Really you can use ONE to make all of the koji-based fermentables I listed, if it came down to it. There are 100's of types of koji-kin, the actual Aspergillus oryzae spores, which are responsible for sporulating on/in the grain. You can read stories of Japanese farmers standing in their rice paddies, waiting for a particular wind to blow, so the Aspergillus spores would travel to their fields and inoculate their grain (waiting, watching the wind, for successful miso year). **I do wish Rhapsody Natural offered barley koji, in addition to rice OR traditional Job's Tears/Chinese Pearl Barley koji for the making of 'hato mugi miso'** Opinion: there is nothing like dipping fresh sliced apples in sweet white miso, or using yellow miso in your friend rice, or a glass of oatmeal amazake blended with apples and cinnamon and vanilla

I purchased this koji and the miyako koji to make shio koji. This product was far superior. Ordering more!