Sake News from Japan / Sake Muse

If you've left your sake for longer than the one week Yoshinari Baba suggests in his Daily Portal Z article, what can you do?If the sake has moved down and left on the SSI two-axis graph (see How long can you leave an open bottle of sake?) and lost some of its aroma...

The Daily Portal Z site has an article which addresses the question of how long you can leave an open bottle of sake before you have to drink it up.Writer Yoshinari Baba admits that although he struggles to drink a litre of water, he has no such problems with the same...

The Nikkei newspaper reports on the increasing trend for premium sake, which brings me back to a previous story about a brewery trying a new way to set pricing at the wholesale level. (A sake that costs as much as wholesalers want to pay) The Kokuryu brewery in Fukui...

The Lmaga site reports on four breweries in the legendary Nada area of Hyōgo with associated shop/restaurants who are holding a time-limited "sake trip" event from 16 June 2018. The four breweries include some of the largest: Ozeki, Hakutaka, Hakushika and...

The Asahi Newspaper digital site reports on a sake made to go with Italian food, and specifically to stand up to the acidity in olive oil.The Watanabe brewery in Hida, Gifu Prefecture have been developing just such a sake and have now launched it. Sake-loving students...

The Sankei News site has an article about sake and computer game characters - but it's not Miki no Mikoto again, this time it's the venerable idol singer franchise Idol Master: Cinderella Girls and Kaede Takagaki, one of its (many, many) characters.The mobile phone...

The Mainichi Newspaper site has a feature on a restaurant that really focuses on rice - both to eat and to drink.Beishoku-Beishu Honoka (米食米酒穂のか, Eat Rice, Drink Rice [alcohol] Rice Ear) near Musashi-Koyama station in Tokyo has no beer or shōchū on the menu, just sake...

I was aware of the US National Sake Appraisal, but hadn't looked at it very closely until seeing this article on the Shokuhin Sangyō Shinbunsha (Food Industry Newspaper) site reporting the 2018 results.One thing that caught my eye was the two daiginjō awards,...

The Sankei Biz site reports on a limited edition sake with a twist - it's made with a kōji variety normally used for shōchū, a traditional distilled Japanese drink.The Hara Sake brewery has been operating in Niigata Prefecture for over 200 years. Once a year, they...