Today I went to watch the Saitama tournament ⚾️ of high school baseball, and my alma mater won a tiebreaker in the Niigata tournament.
It's great that you can now watch all the games across the country on Virtual High School Baseball. I was able to watch and witness the games at the right time.
It was the first time in 27 years that the team had advanced to the last 16.
In case you are wondering, they had played in the Koshien Tournament only once before, in 1966, against Koriyama High School in Nara.
I have to preface this long,
This is Daiginjo Miroku from my hometown "Chojamori" Niigata Meisho.
The brewery is located next to my alma mater.
As I have reviewed several times, 😅It is a special sake for special occasions in my hometown, and I feel like having this sake at banquets makes me feel more festive. 35% Yamada Nishiki polished Daiginjo.
It is a good sake even if you drink it again.
It is smooth and easy to drink, but it is an ajiginjo and has a dry aftertaste that is not too sweet.
Good evening, Mr. Hiraccio 😃.
Thanks for watching the high school baseball game ⚾️ in the heat 😊.
Your alma mater played in Koshien in 1966 🤔 the year Jay was born 😆 That means it was a long time ago 🤗.
Good morning, Jay & Nobby 😊.
Was it Jay's birth year, that's an odd coincidence. 😌.
The Koshien appearance was a long time ago, but it is still a legend of the city.
Dry, clean and crisp. Beautiful aroma. I wonder if the aftertaste is short. Well, it is water. A dangerous sake that you can drink as much as you want. Delicious!
It is good with sashimi.
After work today, I got off at Ikebukuro station on the way to work.
I went to the sake section of the Tobu Department Store to attend a tasting and sales event of Niigata Meisho K.K. of Ojiya.
Just like a year ago, the senior member of my junior high school baseball team was giving a brilliant talk as a salesman.
We talked and tasted all kinds of sake, and I went home with a bottle of Kame-no-o unfiltered unpasteurized sake from Chojamori, which was recommended by the salesman.
Last year's sake had too much rice flavor, but Kame-no-o-mai is a sake that has rice flavor to begin with, and this time the brewery has changed the style to emphasize a lingering aftertaste.
Serve with fruit tomatoes (🍅), tofu, secret beans, spinach with sesame paste, fried horse mackerel, etc,
A dish of seasoned horumon from Kinkatei in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, grilled with garlic and served with a leek ball was served as a side dish.
The motsu is tender and this is a great snack👍.
I like the unfiltered, unfiltered, unadulterated sake series from Chojamori, which includes Gohyakumangoku, Kame-no-o, and Koshitanrei, all of which have their own unique sake rice characteristics.
I personally think that Gohyakumangoku is excellent (when I asked, I was told that only Gohyakumangoku is squeezed into bags and the others are yabuta), but this Kame-no-o also has a nice bitterness and lingering taste, and is a quiet, deep and pleasant sake.
100% Koshitanrei
Polishing ratio 50%, 17%.
GW is a Niigata festival. This sake is not sharp, which is characteristic of Niigata sake, but has a sweet and umami taste. It goes well with rice cooked with kyarabuki and warabi!
Hegisoba kun's closing and practically main hegisoba noodle with snacks.
There is Ojiya's Chojamori, a special junmai👍 with deep nostalgia and no peculiarities.
It was the first time for my colleague to try Hegisoba, but I was glad to hear that it was delicious.
Hegi-Soba has a flavor of nuno-nori (seaweed) rather than soba (buckwheat noodles), and above all, it has a smooth texture and firmness.
I think it goes well with light Niigata sake.
Good morning, Mr. Hiraccio 😃.
It's not easy again
I also went on line with my best friend from high school who came back yesterday for the first time in 3 years and we promised to go out for a drink ♬.
Hegi-Soba and Tochiai Abura-age, nice restaurant👍.
Good morning, Haruei Chichi 😊.
That's it! The argument.
It's been hard to come and go for about the last 3 years due to the Corona disaster, so it's nice to see old friends again.
Hegisoba Kon is probably the first restaurant (izakaya) in Tokyo to serve hegisoba.
It had been a long time since I last visited, but the place was crowded.
Hegisoba, Tochio fried tofu, and other Echigo-style snacks and local sake are a must.