Camp Liquor 🏕️🍶
Here's the second bottle I brought 💁.
Toyobai's Hana Raft🌸
The perfect one for Hanami... .
Aroma of green apple, just like Toyobai!
I dared to drink it at room temperature from the beginning, but it's the best. ‼️
It has a sweetness and umami like an apple on the palate. The bitterness allows you to drink it without getting dull 🍶.
I drank a lot more after this but didn't take any pictures 🤣.
This time, we had a lot of gorgeous snacks like shrimp, crab, and beef tongue, and we announced how much we spent on each of them,
The most idiotic person spent 10,000 yen,
The next stupidest person spent 8,500 yen,
The next stupid person spent 8,500 yen, and I spent 8,000 yen 🤣.
What do you mean it's cheaper to drink at an izakaya?
And to close the camp, 3 old guys went to Yamaoka-Ya ‼️
The stupidest one ordered three different types of food: hard, thick, and heavy 😇That was hard for an old man😇.
I changed the back fat in my special miso ‼️ back fat is sweet and tasty ‼️ but it will make your stomach upset 🤣
Hi Manachie. 😊
Special miso & back fat, 😍 too nice. 😂.
I'll try to make the noodles firm, but not too much or too thick.
I'm sorry to hear that. (I'm not a fan of the "too much fat on the back" thing! More back fat
I did it. (Explosion) 😁.
Hi Manachy ☀☀☀☀.
It's been a while since you enjoyed camping 😁.
I'm wondering how much you brought in with you, almost 10,000 for camp food 🤣.
Special miso with extra back fat 🥰I'm sure you'll want to try something junky once in a while ✨.
Good evening, Mr. Manachy!
It's been a long time since I've been camping ⛺.
By the way, you brought in too much luxury 😁✨.
Toyobai is also the best 😋!
I hope you don't get an upset stomach 😊.
Good evening, Mr. Manachie!
Yamaoka family from camp 🍜.
So far, I haven't seen anyone who has diluted the flavor 🤣 and the back fat wasn't for my body💦.
Hanapin-san, the back fat is good but I had a stomach ache safely in the middle of the night 🫡I always do noodles hard and then only normal 😂I probably have a stomach ache the next day too if I make more back fat🤣.
Hi Gyve 🌞At any rate, everyone brought a case of beer per person and a bottle or two of sake or whisky 🤣The ingredients were also all mysteriously expensive 😅.
Hi ma-ki-San 😃You can't go wrong with any Toyobai 😃I heard that this one from ‼️ is good at room temperature, so I just threw it in my bag and brought it along 💪.
Hi kino.😃The three of us decided to go to ramen for the end of the camping trip, and we had a mysterious choice between going to Ihekei and having garlic rice or going to Yamaoka-ya and consuming back fat 🫨Back fat is not good for my intestines either🤣.
Manachie, congratulations on your long absence from camp ⛺️ 😆🎉!
I was looking at the amount of food you ate and the amount you drank 🤣I wonder if it was all gone 😳.
Good evening, Pon-chan 🌆We probably drank 6 bottles of beer each, 2 4-packs of sake were gone, and I think we drank about 1/3 of the whiskey we brought in 🤣I don't remember though 🤣.
New Year's party for 3 days and 2 nights with a group of friends 🎍(*late)
The second part 🥳 at Akiu Grand Hotel in Sendai
What to bring
It's the second time since I drank it at a bar in July 2024. ♥️
It's still delicious with complex flavors, sweetness like reverberations, and a melt-in-your-mouth sharpness (or is it "drained"?). It is delicious!
I'm sure it will evolve and become more rounded on the second and third days... but I've already finished it 🌚.
I bought 3 bottles in total this time (lol), and there is one bottle left, so I'll take my time to enjoy it carefully...
Annual 2-night 3-day New Year's party with a group of friends🎍(*late)
The second part 🥳 was held at Akiu Grand Hotel in Sendai.
My friend brought me a bottle✨.
I also bought one on 2/19 at a direct sales place, so I'm glad I didn't turn out to be a turnip!
It was like a very gentle, clean, and refined version of sake that has a straight line of what sake is supposed to be 😌.
Personally, I felt like I wanted to drink it with food, which is rare for me, even though it's a jun-dai!
My father came home and I opened the bottle I had left for him.
It is still gorgeous, fruity, and too good to resist!
I never thought I would be able to drink Rainbow again. It was gone in no time when I drank it with my family, but this is a good memory for me. Thank you again for the food and drink tonight!
At Miura Sake Brewery's direct sales shop
The most wallet-friendly brand among the ones we could taste on this day.
(100 or 200 yen for 30ml)
Very sweet and easy to drink!
It's stylish enough to be easily recommended to young girls and people who are not familiar with sake without feeling guilty ✨.
The second photo is near the ceiling (catwalk?) of the direct sales counter.
The second photo is near the ceiling of the direct sales area (catwalk?), where bottles of successive generations of Toyobai are lined up in a spectacular line!
The third photo is the amakasu mochi (sweet rice cake) that I bought with the brewery's limited edition houhai!
Delicious!
At Miura Sake Brewery's direct sales shop
The first and last were of course delicious, but honestly, this was my favorite of all the ones I tasted this time 😋.
I felt the same way when I drank "Junmai Daiginjo Tobottori" from Tasake, a famous sake brewery in Aomori, but the mellowness or smoothness of this kind of pressed sake is my personal favorite.
Like Domo Horun Wrinkle, they watch over each and every drop and deliver only the collected amount! 🤔?
Drop by drop...
Come to think of it, I'm ashamed to say that I've never had "sesame" sake (almost all I've had is Nakadori), so I thought I'd take the opportunity to try it, etc....
By the way, the second photo is the one I bottled to take home.
*After this, I added 2,000 yen worth (lol)
I went to the Miura Sake Brewery in Hirosaki, where Toyobai is brewed, for my long-awaited visit.
The main purpose of the visit was to taste the "First and Last" and to purchase the "Houhai", which I had always been curious about, but never had the courage to buy myself.
After purchasing a tasting card, you can charge it to taste the brand of your choice.
The card can only be charged in increments of 1,000 yen, so I had to do the math to make sure I didn't have too much left over (lol), and this time I tasted 4 out of the 8 brands!
(*To be exact, we visited by car, so we bought a bottle to take home.)
The first and the last was... a tremendous, clear, and tremendous taste😇!
(I think it was 1,600 yen for 30ml? I bought 60ml of it)
It's a special feeling that convinces you it's worth it!
The label with Kichikuzo's handwriting is also cute 🤗.
Inside the restaurant, the music video of "Rainbow" (*a cool song that was created by incorporating a folk song called "Hohai-bushi," which is a Japanese folk song) sung by Aomori's local idol "Rice Ball" was playing on repeat on a laptop in the corner, and the song was strangely addictive. I became their fan (lol).
If you have a chance to listen to it while drinking Toyobai at home (lol), please take a look at it.
It has a soft sweetness followed by no bitterness or acidity, and a very clear daiginjo-like quality that disappears quickly and easily.
I really like the taste.
It's a great price and next time I buy it, I'll definitely buy it in a bottle!