by Arline Lyons | Feb 26, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
While many craft brewers and distillers working with beer, cider or other Western drinks learned their skills from a friendly and accessible home brew to small scale commercial community, sake brewers don’t have that option. Alcohol production of any kind is...
by Arline Lyons | Jun 6, 2024 | Sake News from Japan
As you’ll have seen in this newsletter and many other places last year, the extreme summer heat in Japan made a lot of rice harder and less soluble than usual. Instagram is currently full of breweries and farmers planting out rice seedlings, and you have to...
by Arline Lyons | May 30, 2024 | Sake News from Japan
Annual Japan Sake Awards (official title), National New Sake Appraisal, zenkoku shinshu kanpyōkai (全国新酒鑑評会), whatever you call it, the results are out! Currently held jointly by the Japan Sake and Shōchū Makers Association (JSS) and the National Research Institute of...
by Arline Lyons | Jan 14, 2024 | Sake News from Japan
As the dust starts to settle (metaphorically and in a very real sense) after the New Year’s Day earthquake on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, more details are emerging about the extent of damage to sake breweries on the peninsula and in the...
by Arline Lyons | Jan 3, 2024 | Sake News from Japan
The new year could not have started off worse (unless you were flying into Haneda). Yahoo Japan News posted an article on 2 January 2024 reporting on the earthquake that rocked the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa from around 16:10 on New Year’s Day and its impact on...
