My First Sake Club Package
Recently there’s been a spate of adverts in Japanese newspapers and leaflets through the door for wine, beer and sake monthly clubs.
Think it must be the start of the “financial year” or something. Anyway, toyed with the idea of joining a wine club but then thought, when in Japan… Continue reading
I’m always on the look out for fish shaped wine bottles (don’t know why but it seems to be a popular search on google for this site…) so I was very pleased to discover this gorgeous Sake bottle shaped like a fish at one of our local sake breweries.
Fish Shaped Sake Bottle
If, like me, you think the only way to drink Sake is from a bamboo cup then you’d have been just as excited as I was the other Friday at a works drinks outing in a Bamboo themed izakaya when this appeared…
Sake From a Bamboo Jug
How… Continue reading
The end of September, beginning of October is when sake breweries in Japan harvest the new rice and brew and bottle the new sake that’s been maturing since last spring, so it’s kind of the New Year for Sake.
Because of this in 1978 October 1st was declared “New Year’s Day For Sake Brewing” in Japan. 
Unfortunately, unlike many other designated special days in Japan this… Continue reading
Sake Tasting Bar
In an hour or so, we’re about to go on a tour of the local area sake breweries. I live in Hyogo which has about 60% of the sake (nihonshu – Japanese rice wine) breweries in Japan.
I thought I’d dig out an old blog post I… Continue reading
