Is it still beer when made from rice? Barley is germinated to convert the starches to sugar before brewing. I don’t think that’s an option with rice, you need t

Is it still beer when made from rice? Barley is germinated to convert the starches to sugar before brewing. I don’t think that’s an option with rice, you need two funguses, one to cover the starch to sugar (koji), and the other to convert the sugar to alcohol (yeast). For whatever reason that usually gets called wine. EDIT: > Wang and his colleagues also found yeast and mold, key ingredients in fermentation. So maybe yes?