Toast Festa 🥂⑥ with Tochigi's Local Sake
The 8th (and last) drink is
Yes, it's Wakakoma! Wakakoma ✨🥂✨!
This time I definitely had Wakakoma poured 😆.
Fruity aroma
When you put it in your mouth
The sweet and sour taste is gorgeous....
Yes~! Delicious 😋👍
I wanted to drink a little more, but
I wanted to drink a little more, but thinking about the 🚃 return.
I decided to make this my last one 😊.
Kotori who had joined the day before.
I had to drive 🚙 that day.
She couldn't drink but she showed up 😆🙌
It was great to see you ♡.
I hope we can have a drink again 😘.
I wish I could have met Ars 🤗.
I couldn't come last year.
I was very happy to be able to attend this year 😊.
Higu and Nanoha!
It was a lot of fun 😆.
Higu is a funny guy, he's the best 👍👍.
Jay and Nobby
Thank you for seeing us off on the way home 🚃🙏.
It was very encouraging 🤗
Let's drink again 😄👋
So much fun Tochigi love 🥰!
Hey Tsubu, hi 😃.
I really didn't think I'd be here for 6 hours 😅I really miss all of you 🥹.
Even the last time I had to find the bathroom 😆 That was fun!
Thanks Jay & Nobby 😄!
You were there for 6 hours 😄♪ I respect Higu & Nanoha for drinking from noon 🤣.
I'm looking forward to another prefect meeting 😊.
Oh yes the restroom! Lots of walking at the end 🤣.
Sake made from 100% Gohyakumangoku rice produced in Yoshikawa, Saitama! A gift from a friend in Saitama.
Light yellowish color. It had a strong rice flavor. I drank it cold but thought it would go well with warmed sake.
Store drinking.
This is "Shimadaya Sake Shop Miyamirai".
While waiting for the Shinkansen, we had a quick drink to compare three kinds of Tochigi sake.
On the right.
The horse is wearing sunglasses 😎.
Tochigi's sake has a very aggressive label 🤩.
Sake rice is 100% Asahi no Yume
The color is clear, and the aroma is slight.
On the palate, there is a heavy bitterness and light umami from the rice.
The aftertaste has a slight crispness to it.
The end of the taste is like a wisp of smoke.
It is an exhilarating sake that makes you feel as if you are riding a horse through a meadow.
Good evening, Hiro 😃.
We moved from Festa to Shimadaya and while waiting for the bullet train, we are enjoying Tochigi sake drinking ‼️ Utsunomiya to the fullest 🤗Great👍!
Hi Hiro😄
Amazing! Even after the fiesta, we still have a Tochigi sake drinking contest 😆👏 👏 I'm a wonderful handsome Tochigi lover 🥰.
Let's join us next time you come 😉.
Good morning, Hiro-san 🐥.
I like the fact that you can have a kakuchi here, and that there is a good selection of local sake from all over the country for a place of this size 😉 I wonder if you bought any souvenirs 🤭.
Hi Kotori, ☀️
The selection was amazing, I counted the sake I wanted to try and it was more than I could drink 😄.
If there was one in my neighborhood, I would go there 😆.
I made sure to buy some Nanamizu, which I couldn't buy at the brewery, as a souvenir👍.
First purchase at Melkido, a liquor store and corner store in Kokura Station, Kitakyushu, that sells rare sake.
There is an event on the 22nd and 23rd of this month and I attended only on the 22nd.
Participating sake breweries included Librom, roroom, Taxi Driver, Junsei, Nokomi, Kaygetsu, Sentoku, Yamazaru, KURAMOTO, Machida Sake Brewery, etc.
I bought only two bottles of brands I did not see.
First, Wakakoma
Cold sake
Citrusy aroma
Lively freshness of nama sake with a wide aftertaste and a tartness that makes you squeal when you swallow.
The acidity is similar to that of other Wakanami from Tochigi and Fukuoka...
The aftertaste is normal.
Yum!
I think I like it a lot.
It's more refreshing than I thought it would be.
The label says yellow peach,
I think it has a banana taste.
Not too sweet, but just right.
It has been a while since I have had Wakakoma, but I have a relatively high drinking rate of Ihyakumangoku. I like this one the best. I noticed that the color of the package has changed from brown (chestnut) to yellow. I wonder if they changed the color of the package to yellow because of the banana aroma.
It is very juicy on the first day! I don't remember the fizz, sake, alcohol, and pungency being this strong. The aroma is quite stimulating, and the sake is messy and fun in a good way.
The bitterness is characteristic of this sake, and it starts to appear in the middle of the first half of the bottle. Combined with the acidity, it is like grapefruit.
The taste is similar to that of a dry nigorizumi with a strong flavor. It is like the active muddiness of the moon after the rain...
The second day, it becomes a little milder... After the third day, the goodness of the flirting disappears and the harshness of the alcohol becomes more noticeable...
The banana aroma this time did not remind me of fruit, but was similar to the so-called "magic ink" aroma with a strong alcohol taste.
It was good until the second day, but after that, I felt the taste was a bit harsh, as if I had failed in every food I matched it with - but it was really delicious!
Wakakoma Natsukoma Junmai Unfiltered Nama Sake
June 2, 2024
Isego Honten
2600 yen
This is the first Wakakoma in a long time. I was attracted to it since my recent visit to Oyama and bought it. The aroma is citrusy and acidic, with grain-like aromas of rice and dumplings. The alcohol level is usually low at 14 degrees, but this season it is 15 degrees. The sourness and bitterness spread gradually. The alcohol and sourness remain in the aftertaste, and it finishes dry and sharp. It is a summer sake to be drunk chilled.
Dear Jay & Nobby, Thank you for your comments. Tochigi sake, there are many breweries in the prefecture and it is very deep. We were very impressed with the selection at Yodogawa Sake Shop and would love to revisit.