You can't fight on an empty stomach😆
So, I had a big bowl of katsudon for lunch to give myself a good luck 🫄 ❣️
Satisfied and full 🫄.
After lunch, I plopped down on a desk in the air-conditioned study corner and took a nap 😴.
It's the best ✨
Haha ❗️
Hey, what the hell am I doing ‼️
Are you okay with Saturday's exam 🤣.
I'll do my best 😆
Well, here's the Hokko Masamune Shinshu Jizake Hanpukai!
Actually, I didn't really like it 😅.
It happens sometimes, doesn't it?
Hi Zeke 😊
Your katsudon looks delicious ❣️ oh! Napping 😆 Are you okay? 🤣If you've been working on this so diligently, you'll be fine 😊A few more days of fight 📣.
Good evening, Mr. Sieg Jikon!
Eat a bowl of pork cutlet and take a nap in a cool room 🤣 That's the best 👍
Is the exam a different one from last year? Good luck 📣✊🏻
Thank you, Pon-chan: 🙇♂️
A nap after a bowl of pork cutlet rice 💤 was awesome✨
I guess it's all about balance 😉.
I'm so close to the exam, no matter if I cry or laugh 😆.
I'll do my best ‼️
Thank you kino. 🙇♂️
The exam is the same one as last year😅.
I failed the second exam last year and this year I have to start all over again from the first 😭.
This year I'm aiming to pass the first round 🌸
This is the drink I had at the event that went down....
I'm going to throw them in a row, but I'm sorry I can't remember what they tasted like❗
But it was all delicious ✨
Must taste like pineapple.
That there is a sake that tastes different when you warm it in your palm.
He told me salarily.
I want to buy and drink slowly again❗
If you look closely, you can see that the bottles are shaped differently 😆.
I don't really remember the taste though,
I think I prefer the secret course one 😋.
I remember it was more pleasantly sour than this one 😋.
It was interesting to compare the different tastes of the two 👍.
Friday's Mahjong results
Noodle Sake King +83
NOCHI +62
Choroki +14
takeshon -18
MAJ -20
kino.-26
Rigel -95
Last Friday, while playing mahjong, we compared the hanpukai drinking ‼️
I honestly don't remember much😅.
Well, mahjong was fun 🤣.
Shinshu sake is usually very good, so you can drink it without worries 👍
Shinshu Jizake Hanpukai!
Kitamitsu Masamune is a brand of 59 brewed sake that I enjoyed once!
The taste is sweet and refreshing 😋 which I like.
It is sweet but light and easy to drink!
I don't know of any place in the Tokai region that sells it, and it doesn't seem to be very well known among Shinshu sake, but it's crazy good👍.
I'm glad I found this bottle in the hanpukai 😆.
I also drink Uchu beer with the same white label and black letters 🍻.
Hi kino.🐌.
I've never seen this brand before 😳‼‼The hanpukai is chosen by the other side, so it's great to meet new tastes😊👍That said, all the sake are delicious, Shinshu is amazing❗.
Good evening, Nochi-san!
Kitamitsu Masamune! I've only had two bottles so far, but they are both delicious 😋.
I see you have one in Oyama! I'll have to check it out 👍
Sake from Shinshu Jizake Hanpukai
This time it was a sake that didn't shrivel up right after opening the bottle!
Sweetness followed by bitterness 😌 No acidity in particular. No punch, but a taste that you can drink all the time 😙.
Yesterday, my friends and I went to a craft beer drinking event called "Beer Summit" 🍻! It was fruity and had pictures of pineapple and other fruits, but there was not a drop of juice in it... I was impressed that it had something in common with fruity Japanese sake 🥹.
Good evening, Yukachin-san!
I'm drinking this one right now too! It sure tastes like I can drink it all the time 😆.
I like the craft beer comparison 🍻.
Hi Yucachin 😃
Oh! Is it a craft beer 🍺 festival? ⁉️
The prices are rather expensive, but there are so many different tastes, it's fun to compare!
I can't drink that much though 😅
Good evening, kino.😊I'm steadily developing a list of craft beer stores! When you come to Kanto for an offline meeting, I'll take you to a craft beer place too 😁.
Haruei Chichi, good evening 😊The organizers were in trouble because the sake prepared for this drinking contest didn't last the time 🤣they looked at the organizers as if to say it was our fault 👀I would have gone berserk if there wasn't enough sake!
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Ingredients: rice (domestic), rice koji (domestic)
Rice used: 100% Hitogochi from Iiyama, Nagano Prefecture
Alcohol content: 15 degrees Celsius
Saturday is the day of drinking comparison 😋.
This is the gold course.
It has a strong rice flavor and sweetness.
I can tell the difference in taste when I compare them, but I don't have the vocabulary to put it into words 😅.
I end up saying that they are both delicious, but I think it would be lonely if that was all I said.
But I don't want to be a know-it-all.
These are two good sakes to drink in summer.
The shape of the bottle is different, but does that change the taste?
I'm 🥴helpful.
Good morning, Haruei Chichi, ☀️
Please use it.
I drink twice as much when I compare drinks, but if I decide to have such a day, I feel 20% less guilty. Really 😆
😁😁
Ingredients: rice (domestic), rice koji (domestic)
Rice used: 100% Hitogochi from Iiyama, Nagano Prefecture
Alcohol content: 15 degrees Celsius
Saturday is the day of drinking comparison 😋.
This time it was Hokko Masamune from Shinshu Jizake Hanpukai.
Yesterday's brewery was offering "Yamagata Masamune", so it was a connection between the two. The taste was totally different, though.
Sweet and sour.
It was both sweet and sour in a strong way, with a very strong sweet/sour spectrum.
It looks like it would not lose even if you drink it as a food sake, but I thought I wanted you to first drink this flavor before a meal and feel "puh-uh".
🥴Hello!
nineteenth of the sexagenary cycle
Soft. Clean and dry. Mild aroma, banana when lukewarm. Manufactured in 2021 (21.7 - 22.6), date of release from the warehouse: 23.5
This is the northernmost sake brewery in Nagano Prefecture, located further north from the Iiyama city center. It was far away. The sales floor was clean, and they sold 1-3 year old once-fired sake, as well as raw sake and 59 sake.
The first Hokko Masamune.
It is refreshing, crisp, and has a good sharpness. In general, it is light and easy to drink, with a taste that is typical of summer sake.
Clear ginjo aroma. Mellow and classical sake in the mouth. It has a sense of being refreshed by the addition of water. The more refreshing it is, the stronger the bitterness at the end is felt.
Hokko Masamune Yuki Akari
This one is labeled as dry, but it is not that dry. It has a fruity mouthfeel with a slightly sweet and mellow taste.
My wife prefers this one, but I prefer to drink Mizuo with a variety of other drinks this time of year 😋.
I stayed at Togari Onsen in GW and compared Hokkou Masamune and Mizuo and found that Mizuo was better, but I bought two bottles of Hokkou Masamune at Kakuguchi Sake Brewery in my neighborhood, which is only a few minutes drive away 😁.
When I checked out, I asked the owner about the sake and he told me that Mizuo's brewery was flooded by the previous heavy rains and that they took the opportunity to make some modifications to improve the taste and that it is now more popular than Hokko's 🤔.
By the way, what kind of sake (Junmai, Honjyo, etc.) do both of them serve? I asked.
The owner said it was probably 2nd class sake 🤔...
(I don't know if that's true now 😅)
I opened the bottle and the aroma was refreshing.
It's not nigori-ish, but rather crisp and slightly spicy. There is no sweetness.
It is delicious cooled down in this hot season.
I would like to have some tadacha beans as a snack 😁.
Slightly sweet aroma.
At first, it is soft and easy to drink like water, but soon it has a strong flavor. The dryness increases as it warms up from cold.
I was at a tasting event at Kakuguchi Sake Brewery and drank 5 kinds of sake including this one.
I was surprised at how different they tasted even though they were made from the same rice!
This rice has been around for a long time, and even a small amount of polishing can change the flavor. It seems that the less polished the rice is, the more graininess and acidity you can taste.
