About Positive Drinking Habits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auKd8p6nIsc Three years since I started drinking sake. And here’s what I’ve learned after those three years. One: sake is delicious. Two: sake is not good for your body. And here’s what I’ve learned now that I’ve turned thirty. One: a hangover doesn’t just affect you the morning after — at […]
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338 years ago in Akita Prefecture — Ippaku-suisei(一白水成) There is a sake from Akita Prefecture — the favorite of my first Japanese friend I grew up close to after coming to Fukuoka, and one I had tried myself back in Korea. This brewery’s history begins in 1688. Around the time the brewery was founded, England
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When I was young, one of the games I often played with my mother was a game using the “nose.” The caller would keep saying “ko, ko, ko…” (it means
When You Can’t Pick the Right Sake for Dinner, There’s Hakurakusei Founded in 1874 in Ōsaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, Niizawa Brewery is the producer of the sake I want to introduce today, Hakurakusei. Now led by its fifth generation, the brewery has a clear philosophy. They describe their sake as aiming to become the “ultimate
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DASSAI, Unforgettable Nihonshu If someone were to ask me which sake I will never forget,last year, this year, next year, and even the year after that,my answer would always be the same: Dassai. Today, I want to tell the story of why Dassai has remained so deeply etched in my memory.And through this story, I
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They’ve got through all things because they are together! – Miyakanbai (宮寒梅) Miyakanbai is one of my wife’s favorite nihonshu—and a sake that I, too, have come to fall deeply in love with. When you drink Miyakanbai, a sake born from the brewers’ sincere devotion to what they make, and from the bonds and love
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