Rice beer-Rice beer is a low-alcohol beverage made from rice, The rice is milled, water is added and cooked. It is cooled and then the Starter is added and fermented for 18 hours at 20-28OC. Rice beer is then decanted from the solid residue, which often is used as a breakfast cereal. The starter introduces a mixture of moulds and yeasts. The rice starch is broken down to sugars by amylase enzymes of moulds of Rhizopus, Mucor and Aspergillus species. The yeasts of Endomycopsis and Hansenula then convert the sugars to ethanol and carbon dioxide. The ragi starter contains moulds, yeasts and lactic acid bacteria. It is 'produced by fermenting rice or other starchy powders. This is used as a starter for several fermented foods.