SC - rice wine

[Stefan li Rous]

> >We recall having run across a recipie for making your own brewed sake.
> >Of course, now that we go looking for it, it is nowhere to be found.
> >Does anyone out there have a recipie to make rice wine, aka sake?
> >
> > Christianna
> 
> I have a recipe for rice wine.  I've not made it before and not sure if it
> is sake or not.
> 
> 2 lbs rice, 1 gallon water; 3 1/2 lbs sugar; 2 lbs raisins; 1 lemon; 4
<snip>

A couple of questions:
1) Rice was known, and I believe grown, in Europe in period. Is there
any evidence that it was ever brewed into a beverage?

2) Why is it called rice "wine"? It really sounds more like rice "beer"
to me. I think I may have asked this before but right now I'm trying to
figure out whether to place this recipe in my beer-msg file or in my
wine-msg file. Since everyone seems to call it a wine, I think that
is where I will place it since that is where folks would probably look
for it.
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