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The Irorio site features a series of illustrated examples of how to enjoy sake in summer by Illustrator @imoko_iimo.
Broken down into four parts, each panel has a list of simple serving suggestions or recipes to turn your sake into a hot weather drink.
- Sake + ice = on the rocks
- Sake – freeze = mizorezake (“sleet” sake, see A summer treat of frozen sake)
- Sake + lime juice + ice = Samurai Rock
- Samurai rock + tonic water to taste + slice of lemon = “Green Japan” (グリーン日本)
- 1 part sake + 1 part dry gin + 1 olive + ice = Saketini on the rocks
- 1 part sake + 1 part tomato juice + parsley to taste + ice = Red Sun
- 1 part sake + 1 part Blue Curacao + 1 part lemon juice + 1 part lime juice = Seiryū
- 6 parts sake + 1 part gin + 2 parts green tea liqueur + 1 part lemon juice = Spring Snow
- 4 parts sake + 1 part lemon liqueur + 2 parts green tea (brewed hot) + 3 tsp sugar syrup + ice = Ryokucha-wari (sake diluted with green tea)
- 45 ml sake + 15 ml lemon juice + 1 tsp sugar + soda to taste + ice = Sake Sour
- 8 parts sake + 3 parts crème de cassis + 10 parts calpis (diluted to 1/5) + ice = Cassis Girl
- 60 ml sake + 60 ml tonic water + 1 tsp crème de cassis + 1 slice lemon + ice = sake-cassis tonic
- 45 ml sake + 2 tsp grenadine syrup + 3 tsp lemon juice + 1 tsp sugar syrup + 1/3 of an egg = Nadeshiko
- 20 ml sake + 10 ml dry gin + 20 ml soda + 1 tbsp fresh cream + 2 tsp sugar + ice = Kiku Fizz
- 30 ml sake + 3 tbsp yogurt + honey to taste + milk to taste + ice = yogi-sake
- 2 parts sake + 1 part yogurt liqueur + 1 part lemon liqueur = Shirayukihime (Snow White)
- 40 ml sake + 40 ml acerola cherry juice = 50 ml lime soda + 25 leaves mint + ice = Sake Mojito
- 45 ml sake + 60 ml orange juice + tonic water to taste + ice = Orange Breeze
The last panel is finished off with one of the illustrator’s signature characters remarking that beer is nice, sure, but so is summer sake!
Links
- Original article (Japanese, Irorio, 28 June 2018)
And seeing as it’s too hot here for me at the moment, I went looking for some more cool cocktails…
- 35 stylish cocktails you can make at home with sake from Experience Sake
- 8 easiest sake cocktail recipes you can make at home from Sake Talk
- Sake Cocktail Recipes from Hakushika
- 7 delicious sake cocktails you need to be drinking from Liquor.com
- Sake cocktail recipes from Joto Sake (PDF)
- Sake cocktail recipes from Ozeki (PDF)