by Arline Lyons | Oct 16, 2020 | Sake News from Japan
News site Jiji.com carries a press release announcing round 2 of Nihonshu Nyumon (日本酒入門) – an introduction to sake from the company Warehouse Japan. [The first round was announced in August 2020 and looks identical.] The service ships samples and a textbook to serve...
by Arline Lyons | Oct 15, 2020 | Sake News from Japan
The Kyodo Keizai Shinbun reports on a new project from the Tokyo University of Agriculture that aims to offer emergency support to 41 sake breweries across the country. Based in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward, the Tokyo University of Agriculture (東京農業大学, Tōkyō Nōgyō Daigaku or...
by Arline Lyons | Oct 3, 2020 | Sake News from Japan
Can’t decide if you want your sake hot or cold? PR Times has a press release for a piece of equipment that will do both. Hiyakan, a heating-and-cooling sake server designed to manage anything from hiya (10°C) to atsukan (55°C), is currently raising funds on Japanese...
by Arline Lyons | Oct 3, 2020 | Sake News from Japan
The News24.jp site has a very brief article with accompanying video [50 seconds] from a news segment on celebrations for a new jizake [地酒, local/regional sake] brewed with a recently developed strain of rice. Ishikawa Prefecture spent 11 years developing the new...
by Arline Lyons | Oct 2, 2020 | Sake News from Japan
Yahoo News Japan carries an article from KHB Higashi Nihon Hōsō about the revised tobacco and alcohol taxes that came into effect on 1 October 2020 [coincidentally Sake Day] and how one sake brewery reacted in a slightly unexpected way. Wine and the so-called “third...
by Arline Lyons | Sep 30, 2020 | Sake News from Japan
News release site Jiji.com has a press release from SAKE HUNDRED, part of Clear, Inc. [who also run the Kurand chain of all-you-can-drink sake bars and the SAKETIMES site] on their attempt to support sustainable agriculture. They aim to support their partner sake...
