862 2006/3
AFS 1975
Aged wine
70% 17-18° 06/2 A+
Chiba Oharacho Kidoizumi Shuzo
500 2100 From the brewery
This is the first AFS in two years. It is still delicious.
It has been aged for more than 30 years.
I had not seen Afs for a while, but I requested two bottles when I found out that I could buy it directly from the brewery.
I also requested 3 bottles of other sake, so I had almost all Kidoizumi this month.
The smell is amazing!
It's kind of earthy or something...
It smells like caramel as you drink it, it's numbing or something...
The taste is... soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good!
Then it tastes like caramel... what the heck is this?
It's so unique that it's hard to comment... I don't know if I can call it sake... I like it, but...
Chiba's local sake
〜We will have Chiba's local sake 🍶~.
AFS⁉️
What is AFS "AFS"...
"The initials of the three people involved in the development of this sake
The initials of the three people involved in the development of this sake are spelled out.
A: Genemon Adachi.
The previous president of Suminoi Sake Brewery in Niigata Prefecture
F: Mr. Tou Furukawa
First director of the Chiba Prefectural Brewing Experiment Station (now the Chiba Prefectural Industrial Technology Support Institute).
First director of Chiba Brewery Experiment Station (now Chiba Prefectural Industrial Technology Support Institute), technical advisor to Kidoizumi at the time
S: Isamu Shoji
President of Kidoizumi Sake Brewery for two generations
High-temperature Yamahai, use of lactic acid bacteria, one-stage brewing...
Above all, the toji's skill in both fields has given birth to the strange taste of "Afs".
The 2018BY "AFS Light Nigori Nama
Second fermentation sparkling in the bottle
-Second fermentation sparkling in the bottle, aged at 5℃.
Kidoizumi AFS 50th Anniversary Sake".
It has a characteristic sweetness and acidity that gives it a sparkling wine
It has a sweet and sour taste that gives the impression of sparkling wine.
Kidoizumi Sake Brewery
AFS light nigori sake
The strong acidity, which is not at all sake-like, is irresistible.
The low alcohol content of 13 degrees makes it easy to drink.
It was the kind of sake that expands the fun of sake.
1531 2020/7
Record only
AFS Junmai AFS Nama
Junmai Nama-Shu High-temperature Yamahai single-stage brewing
65% 13° 20/2 A
Chiba Isumi City Kidoizumi Shuzo
500 1650 EKJ
Kidoizumi indeed...but I miss AFS 1975.
Rice polishing ratio: 65
One-stage Yamahai brewing at high temperature
Alcohol content 13%.
Slightly yellow sake
Lactic acid aroma and taste.
Very sour!
Like a white wine!
Maybe with cheese.
Lots of dairy/lactic acid aromas. It's super sour! Much more like a white wine than sake. cheese.
Paired with Yodaregami chicken and skinless egg.
Perfectly matched ❗️Pepper and star anise in the Yodorette with a touch of maturity and sweetness of aphus and sharp acidity like wine. I think it might go better with Sichuan Chinese cold dishes than with Shaoxing wine.
The key is that the afs has the sweetness of Shaoxing wine and the acidity of Riesling, and it tastes like drinking sake, Shaoxing wine, or sour port wine, but it doesn't belong to any of them.
Many people would not like it, but after opening the bottle, it has a freshness that makes it a superb marriage if you are careful with your food.
A+++.
I stopped by Chiba for work and bought it at a liquor store in front of the station.
This is the first time I've tried Chiba sake. It's nice to meet you. I'm a bit of an idiot, but I look forward to working with you.
The shopkeeper recommended that I buy this afs nama sake from Kidoizumi Brewery. I was told that the sake was made using a single-stage brewing process, where the rice and koji are brewed at once, instead of the three-stage brewing process used for sake.
When poured into a glass, the color was slightly golden. It has a sour taste that makes your tongue swoon, followed by a faint sweetness. It gives the impression of licking a citrus fruit like a lime.
This is a bottle that will make you feel the depth of sake.
Fruity Shaoxing wine. The acidity is similar to that of white wine Riesling. I know a lot of people don't like it, but I feel something like the philosophy of Kidoizumi.
Without the aging aroma, it is a calcareous German wine with lots of minerality and acidity.
It would go well with Chinese food. I like it.
