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 [...]
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…
How cool is that, and the sake was pretty nice too (a local brand, [...]
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. [...]
