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...
by Arline Lyons | Jan 26, 2023 | Sake News from Japan
The February 2023 edition of Nikkei Trendy magazine features yet another “sake ranking” – but this time the criterium is innovation. Featuring everything from breweries taking their cue from brewing’s ancient past to those chasing the title of...
by Arline Lyons | Jan 25, 2023 | Sake News from Japan
Japanese crowdfunding site CAMPFIRE has seen a few sake-related projects. More than a few. Actually, enough to warrant their own event. For March 2023, sake crowdfunding will have its own special event on the site, called Nihonshu Matsuri (日本酒祭り, Sake Festival). As...