The picture on the right shows a Sakabayashi (Sake Grove) Cedar Ball. These are hung outside sake breweries (and some sake off licenses) to show that sake has been recently brewed.
(Actually they seem to be always outside the breweries I’ve been to, so either they are constantly brewing new sake or it’s just a sign [...]
I’m always a big fan of free booze and walking through Umeda station in Osaka, Japan the other day (well, the other month really, been a bit slack with posting this), I was greeted with this…
I know it’s not a great picture (taken with my camera phone), but essentially it’s crowds of people queueing up [...]
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.
The brewery is called Takinokoi Kuramoto Club [...]
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 wrote for a different site and post it here [...]
