Purely personal memorandum 1)
At restaurant #1, which I visited for the first time at the beginning of the year.
No notes, but just checking in because it was delicious 🙇.
First, Takudra No. 3.
Kikumori Brewery is a daily monitor of President Fujimura's Instagram, where you can see the daily brewing process, the meetings he attends, the hotels he stays at, and even his lunch of cup yakisoba and his Splatoon Udemae 😁.
Takudora is a sake made with koji from Reimei Hiraizumi, yeast from Yuko no Moui, and rice from Kakehashi, the first original rice paddy in Iwate.
Although they do not use words such as "terroir," one can sense the love of locality in their sake brewing.
The taste memory 🤔.
The aroma is extremely mild, the smell of rice wine 🌾.
The attack of the 18% alcohol original is like a tapping of the senses that have become accustomed to low-alcohol modern sake.
The attack of the 18% alcohol sake is like a tapping of the senses that have become accustomed to low alcohol modern sake, yet it also has a penetrating gentleness, and the umami of the rice is thick amidst the acidity and alcohol stimulation.
I remember thinking, "Oh, I'd like to try this heated." I remember thinking "Oh, I'd like to try heating it up.
It was the kind of sake where it is polite to drink it with a teacup, while holding a bottle in your arms, and yet there are glimpses of delicacy and gentleness 🍶.
Sake Album Liberation No. 20
I just started, but I am also doing a youtube titled "Starting a Second Life in Your 40s"
I have also started a YouTube video titled "Starting a Second Life in Your 40s".
Please take a look at this video of a DIY project of converting a highzette panel van into an overnight stay vehicle.
https://youtube.com/channel/UCiQCCVjzbfzK0mKW27RqPOQ?si=juOdEAMXhqF2C10e
On another business trip to Morioka, I was confronted with a bottle of Iwate sake.
Cab Driver, with its rather disturbing label, is a representative bottle from Kikumori Shuzo, a pure rice brewery in Kitakami City, Iwate Prefecture. The sake is said to be named after a dark movie starring De Niro, but the other brands also have names like Denki Bosatsu (Electric Bodhisattva), and this all-out subculture makes one feel like the old Village Vanguard...
Although it is a draft sake, the brewery's introduction includes some unexpected phrases, such as "It can be kept at room temperature" and "Try heating it up.
I opened the bottle and drank it cold, and found it to be rich and dry, a bit like "Bakuren". I quite liked the taste. I am looking forward to seeing how the taste will change.
The third one is Iwateyama.
⚫︎Raw material rice: Kakehashi
⚫︎Polishing ratio: 55
⚫︎ Alcohol level: 17
