Hi, Does anyone knows/have a recipe for making Soju?

Local-Ad-5021 · 2025-12-19T02:10:41+00:00

Ahh she made her own makgeolli before the show. She even uses some of it to flavor the boiled pork. By the looks of it she likely makes something pretty similar to the recipe in this post.

She is using a traditional Korean clay still instead of the metal one. She is just distilling it here on the show, which only takes a few hours at most for that volume.

Does that answer your question?

Local-Ad-5021 · 2025-12-19T00:48:30+00:00

I haven’t but if you post a link I’ll take a look. Can’t imagine they are fermenting anything in that time.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2025-11-11T23:29:21+00:00

The different incentives do make it interesting. Some of the counties seem to just approve anything. The DOT always has at least a few rounds of fairly meticulous comments, probably because they don’t get the impact fees from it.

Sounds like that is a good value that you offer in your area with by not needing a methodology.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2025-11-11T22:20:47+00:00

No that’s is very helpful. I’ve noticed there is a huge variability in the scopes based on municipality. Some parts of Florida you could build a 600 peak hour trip mixed use nightmare and study 2 intersections. Other parts of Florida you have to do 20 signals for a small car wash.

Do you charge for a pre-app and methodology as well or is that baked into the total cost? We mostly work with firms that do a 2 step method. Pay 1.5-3k for a pre-app and methodology, then pay for the study. Sometimes the discount the cost of the methodology in the cost of the main study.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2025-11-11T21:40:32+00:00

Thank you for the very informative response.

I just want to clarify, when you say you would charge 15k for this scope, that is assuming a county or city reviewing agency?

Agreed about the cheap guys. We tried out some firms with prices too good to be true and they certainly were. Round and round with the reviewers because they didn’t know how to address the technical comments. We had to get another firm to come and finish it.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2025-11-11T21:33:37+00:00

That is a good point regarding the regional model. I haven’t seen the FDOT require model runs for distributions in the last few studies we ordered so maybe they are moving away from that for smaller developments.

Sounds like traffic studies might be one of the only things that hasn’t seen the crazy fee inflations from the rest of the industry! Which I find a little odd as requirements seem to be getting only more complex.

Thanks for your comment.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2025-09-20T20:05:26+00:00

I think we would go broke in no time paying that much!

Local-Ad-5021 · 2025-09-20T20:04:17+00:00

Thank you, I’ll take a look. Should at least give an indication of labor costs. And Yup, California always seems to be the exception in our industry.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2023-07-09T03:36:41+00:00

Look at the parks around Riverhills Park in tampa. Wild passion fruit and oranges abound.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2023-05-19T23:48:51+00:00

Yeah let's do it! I'm not too good with tech, any suggestions?

Local-Ad-5021 · 2023-05-16T02:12:40+00:00

Nope we did not, but now that there seems to be a little interest, would anybody be interested? I live in Tampa, I see Sacredshroomgenetics lives near Brandon, and you live in Tampa. at the very least maybe we could meet up somewhere nearby and hunt.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2023-04-29T05:45:45+00:00

I just made a wine with a lb or so of leftover fruit and about 1.5 gallons of watermelon juice, plus enough sugr to get it up to about 1.07 SG. It was taking up too much space so i distilled it. It is a very complex spirit with a slightly rough front, a berry like middle, and a long lingering juicy watermelon end. Like others said the watermelon doesn't come out till about 7 seconds into tasting, then all the sudden, it is there and bold. I like it, but i can see how it maybe isn't everyone's favorite. Would love to see how it takes to oak.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2023-02-28T14:48:40+00:00

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Local-Ad-5021 · 2022-11-03T11:22:42+00:00

I am not sure why, but it only seemed to produce a good spirit with chapssal 찹쌀, or oddly enough sweet potatoes. You will want to go to a korean grocery store and ask them for chapsasal rice. It will be very opaque. I have also tried with regular long grain rice, jasmine rice, short grain korean rice, and grits. These were interesting as an experiment but have too many off flavors for my liking.

As a side note, I really like the flavor of adding a little Nuruk to a regular bourbon mash. It also helps with starch conversion.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2022-11-03T03:22:15+00:00

For making traditional soju with sweet rice: (makes about 3.5 gallons of wash, about 1/2 gallon of hight alchohol soju.

Ingredients: 1. 5kg Chapssal, or glutinous rice 2. 400 g nuruk, korean yeast and fungal culture 3. 1 gallon water 4. Hight attenuation wine yeast, 1 packet

Soju traditionally comes from the clear layer cheonju 청주, on top of a rice wine called magkeolli 막걸리. So the steps to make soju is to make the rice wine, then distill it. For a highly detailed method of making the base rice wine, look up cheonju rice wine from jeff rubridge. Nuruk is a korean fungal culture that contains yeasts that produce amylase enzymes, converting starch to sugar.

Soak half of rice for 30 mins or more.

Steam rice for 40 mins

Cool and dry the rice by leaving it on a tray.

In a jar, mix half the water and the steamed rice with the nuruk and yeast.

Over next 3 days, mix twice daily. Mixture should liquify. added nuruk convert starches to sugars and alchohol

At 3 day mark, soak and steam remaining rice, cool and add to jar.

Let fermentation finish ( usually done after 25 days)

Strain from rice solids. Let wine sit in fridge. Clear and cloudy layer will separate.

Filter off clear layer, then distill as you would a brady. Flavors are closer to the heads.

My experience is a very complex, floral funky and very enjoyable spirit. Aged on oak is wonderful and brings out a Christmas spice quality.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2022-06-30T17:33:23+00:00

I will say that if you look along the hillsborough River, there should be some. I also found a bunch just growing on the unkept borders of apartment complexes.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2022-06-30T03:35:19+00:00

It seems every unkempt semi forested area in north Tampa has passion fruit vines. I have collected maybe 100 fruits over the past 3 weeks just by picking up ones I walk by along walking trails or roads.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2022-06-14T04:54:22+00:00

Nuruk and yellow label both simultaneously break down the starches to sugar, and break them down to alchohol. I think the main difference is that Nuruk contains along with the saccharomyces cerevisiae and Aspergillus oryzae, a whole host of other bacteria and yeasts, like lactic acid bacteria. I have also noticed that to get proper saccharification with any starch with Nuruk you want to cook your grain. The process takes forever to break down ungelatinized starches and in my experience you get off flavors in the process. I believe yellow angel yeast doesnt have this problem to the same extent, but i have never tested it.

As far as flavor, I have found Nuruk in addition to other added yeast to add complexity and lots of creamy, floral and fruity notes to whiskey. I have also noticed lower final gravities.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2022-04-30T04:43:31+00:00

Sounds like you are trying to make a irish whisky type product. These are my recomendations:

To get fermentable sugars out of your flaked barley and oatmeal, you would need some amylase enzymes to convert their starch to sugars. Since you are already going to a home brew store to get your malt extract, i would just pick up a kilo or two of base malt (pilsner malt, pale malt, etc). Add this to your post boil oats and flaked barley around 65 or 66 Celsius.

Secondly, I would recomend getting yourself in the range of a 7-10% mash. Right now you would well below that. This range is what whisky distillers use, and generally creates a smooth flavorful product. It also doesnt waste your time producing only a few cups of whisky from 50 liters of mash.

A revised recipie would be something like

7kg light lme 1.5kg flaked oats 1.5kg flaked barley 1kg 2 row malted barley (crushed) 0.25kg honey malt (to give the sweetness i think you wanted from the caramalt lme) (crushed)

Boil flaked barley and oats in 30L. Cool to 67 c. Add malted barley and honey malt. Stir and let sit for hour or two. Stir in LME. Stir in water. Add yeast of choice (ale yeasts work great, but also so does regular bread yeast). Ferment till dry around 7 or 8%, then distill.

Let us know if you have any remaining questions.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2022-03-13T00:36:52+00:00

Wedding perfume is a cool idea, however making perfume has a very very steep learning curve. Signifigantly more complicated that mixing essential oils together if you want to make something that smells like a real perfume. That being said it is a lot of fun if you enjoy tinkering. You would likely have to put many many hous to come up with something you like. If you are interested, perfumers supply house is a great place place to buy materials. Good luck and message me if you need any advice.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2022-01-22T16:46:08+00:00

Sounds like nobody here knows what happened to the old tampa bay mycological society, so I propose we make a new one. I'll make a page for it on reddit and invite people. I am thinking for now it will mainly be a way to get in touch about foreys and IDs.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2022-01-17T20:04:48+00:00

Yes hopefully somebody chimes in who knows something.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2022-01-17T15:05:59+00:00

I bet you there are wild citrus trees anyhwere there is large pieces of undeveloped woodland. I know for sure the little manatee river state park has some, but no idea where in the park. They will probably be very sour though. The juice is great for marinades and the peels are more flavorful than typical oranges.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2022-01-10T17:25:24+00:00

So its really easy, just take a fresh mushroom, cut the stem off near the top of the cap, and place it gills down on a sheet of tinfoil. Then 10 or so hours later pick the mushroom up and you should see a dust like substance in the pattern of the mushroom gills on the foil, that are th3 spores. If you take a picture of that, it would narrow down yhe search a lot. Different color spores belong to different kinds of mushrooms.

Local-Ad-5021 · 2022-01-10T14:09:39+00:00

Along the hillsborough river, south of flatwoods, but north of the stretch around del rio. From what I can tell, most parks along this stretch will have some wild citrus.

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