Posts Tagged Sake

I thought I’d post a couple of photos of the sake sections in some local shops near me.
The first is a more specialised off-license, which as well as shochu, whiskey, and crates of beer, has a Sake Corner, with bottles from all over Japan, as well as Ji-sake (地酒) which is craft-brewed sake (basically sake brewed in smaller quantities by smaller breweries).[caption id=”attachment_2070″ align=”aligncenter” width=”482″ caption=”The Sake Corner… Continue reading

Every year during the second weekend in January there’s a long Bank Holiday weekend, as we would say in England, and this co-incides with the Ebisu Shinto Shrine festivals held around Japan. People go to the shrines to buy fukusasa, which are lucky charms for businesses in the coming year.

Just up the road from us in Nishinomiya city is one of the biggest festivals with around 1 million… Continue reading

In Japan there are a thousand and one ways to buy and drink sake. From the huge barrels you find outside Shinto shrines and at weddings or company promotional events, to the standard 1.8l or 750ml bottles, to the one-cup glasses or box cartons from vending machines.
Recently in Family Mart convenience stores a new way to drink sake has appeared, or as they say on the side… Continue reading

Late again with my post about July’s sake club selection – the August delivery arrived yesterday. At least I’d managed to try them all this time. Just this minute posted up the reviews.

Sake Club for July

All three were phenomenal sakes this time, all scoring 90 or more with one reaching 95!… Continue reading

Sake Barrel

Bit of a techie post today. In today’s newspaper there was an article about how a group of Japanese scientists have discovered that soaking a special type of iron in red wine, sake or beer makes it a superconductor (a superconductor conducts electricity without resistance, i.e very fast).
The cool sounding Nano… Continue reading