by Arline Lyons | Jul 13, 2018 | Events
Wow. I actually copied and pasted the title of this post from another one from almost a year ago. Most of the entries on this blog are a personal project to post a translation/summary of a Japanese news article a day for at least a year, so this reminds me that I...
by Arline Lyons | Jun 3, 2018 | Events
As you know, I complain all the time about the limited choices for sake in Zurich (I just found another place that stocks small brewery sake!) even compared to Geneva. For a really good choice, I thought I had to go to London… but there’s another...
by Arline Lyons | Mar 25, 2018 | Events
If you missed Part 1, here’s the beginning of my visit to the Aizu Homare brewery. As we walked through the brewery, we talked about the challenges facing the sake industry. Miyuki pointed out that consumption of sake was dropping overall because of changes in...
by Arline Lyons | Mar 24, 2018 | Events
NOTE: As John Gauntner has pointed out (Sakagura tourism? Not so fast!) breweries are food producers observing stringent hygiene requirements. Don’t assume you can drop in unless they have a shop, bar, museum or other public space. Always ask in advance if you can...
by Arline Lyons | Mar 19, 2018 | Events
We’re back for more nigori and chocolate! We enjoyed the first attempt to ask “does nigori go with chocolate?” so much (mainly by countering with “which form of chocolate?”) that we wrote up a short list of what other forms we’d...
by Arline Lyons | Mar 18, 2018 | Events
If you missed Part 1 of the Tonoike/Sanran brewery visit, click here to read it. The Tonoike brewery – known for its Sanran sake and Mashiko no Honō shōchū – isn’t a tiny brewery, but they deliberately keep things small-scale. Our first stop was the rice...
