I’ve made rice wine with the yeast balls a couple times, it was sweet and very cloudy. I should try it again but in a much bigger batch to help get more liquids to separate out. I also experienced the sticky gross mush that wasn’t really pleasant to play with. I wrapped all the rice in cheese cloth in order to be able to squeeze out more liquids from the mush which did help, I always thought a juice press would be really useful at that stage.
Wish I could be a fly on the walk when the bad actor realized years of work has just gone down the drain