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Sake Day and Nishinomiya Ebisu Sake Festival

MoIppai — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:56:48 +0000

They say that if you want to have a successful blog, the key thing is timing and to write posts timely and when the subject you’re writing about is current and relevant.

So here is my blog post about Sake Day in Japan which occurred 2 months ago on October 1st!

Sake day is so called as it’s around this time that the new brewing years sake is released.

To celebrate this momentous event Ebisu Temple in Nishinomiya held a sake festival that weekend with the local breweries showing off some of their new sakes for punters to taste and buy.

Getting off the train at the station we were immediately greeting with this display of Sake Barrels.

Sake Barrels

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Post tags: Ebisu, Matsuri, Sake, Sake Festival, Yebisu

Sennenichi Sake Brewery, Awaji Island, Japan

MoIppai — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:00:24 +0000

On a recent trip to Awajishima (Awaji island, a tiny island inbetween Honshu and Shikoku, just off the coast of Kobe), we stopped in at the local sake brewery Sennenichi to pick up a bottle of the local brew to take home.

Sennenichi Sake Brewery

We were greeted very warmly and were very quickly invited for a mini-tour of the brewery by the extremely friendly owner.
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Godzilla Sake Est Arivee!

MoIppai — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:11:01 +0000

After only a couple of days my “‘Hakai-O’ Sake Godzilla“, I blogged about recently, arrived in the post! No.43 of 3000. Nice.

Nice Packaging

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Sake Tasting Vending Machine, Osaka Airport

MoIppai — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:00:46 +0000

If you’re ever in Itami Airport in Osaka, head over to the far end of the West Terminal and in the corner you’ll find a sake shop that houses a wall of sake tasting vending machines.

Sake Shop, Itami Airport

Sake Tasting Vending Machines

So you take one of the small sake tasting cups, place it in the machine and insert your ¥100. Press the button of the sake of your choice and watch it fill up.

Sake Tasting Cups

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The 47 Sake

MoIppai — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:05:25 +0000

Recently one of the big department stores in Osaka, Hanshin, was running a food fair featuring lots of different “Eki Bento” (boxed lunches sold at train stations) from all over Japan.
As part of this you could also buy, for about ¥10,000 ($100), a box of 47 Cup Sakes (individual sized glass jars of sake), one from each of Japan’s 47 Prefectures.
Obviously I had to get one, and a few days later this box arrived at my door.

Box of 47 Cup Sakes

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