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
Sakabayashi Cedar Ball
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… Continue reading
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…
Free Sake in Osaka
I know it’s not a great picture (taken with my camera… 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
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
