Sake News from Japan
Which Japanese prefecture has the best local sake?
Welcome to the first post in my new project, reviewing Japanese news about sake! Survey site Sirabee (a loosely romanised version of the word for "research" or "find out") asked 1,151 Japanese men and women aged 20-60 which prefecture they thought produced the best...
Coffee tasting at MAME 24 September 2017
On Sunday 24 September I hurried to MAME for their semi-regular monthly tasting, which may not be happening in October as they're closing briefly for a refit! Emi mentioned that they plan to have more seating, which would be great. The Germans and Swiss are into...
September 2017 round-up
Wow. I can't believe I haven't posted since July. The problem with going away for an extended period of time is that you have to do a lot of catching up afterwards, and I think I never caught up from the July trip before I went away again at the end of August! But it...
London School of Coffee: Sensory analysis and introduction to cupping course
Continuing my training extravaganza, the day after the first day of my tea course I set off on a grey morning to travel out to the London School of Coffee in Kingston Upon Thames for their Introduction to Cupping and Sensory. I arrived to find only the instructor, the...
WABI 和美 A Taste of Japan Trade day Friday 7 July 2017
This was another rather fortuitous event. After I decided to go to the International Wine Challenge (IWC) sake trophy winners tasting at the Japanese Embassy in London, I followed IWC on Twitter... and they were promoting WABI! As it turned out, I had booked to fly...
IWC Trophy winning sake tasting at Japanese Embassy London July 2017
This was a classic case of a good deed coming back to reward you in expected ways. I gave my brother a ticket to a Sake Service Institute (SSI) tasting for his birthday last year, as a result of which he was put on a mailing list advertising this event. He forwarded...
Filter methods comparison at MAME 16 July 2017
The wonderful Emi and Mathieu held another session at MAME on Sunday 16 July, although it wasn't the same kind of tasting as they had been doing for the last few months! This time they took the exact same coffee... and filtered it seven different ways! They chose a...
With distinction!
There was a pleasant surprise waiting for me in the post when I got back from Cardiff - the results of my WSET Level 3 Award in Sake!As I mentioned in the write-up of the course, I was very worried about the tasting component of the exam as I didn't have a lot of...
Coffee shop hopping in Cardiff
I spent a few days in Cardiff in May, mostly to attend the conference of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting but also to enjoy a day or two of roaming around the city and getting in as much of its coffee culture as I could!There had been a coffee festival...
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