A four-pack bottle costs 1,100 yen including tax. Too good to be true. The color is clear and the aroma is almost odorless. However, when you put it in your mouth, it has a full flavor that is typical of junmai (pure rice). The taste is clean and refreshing, with no hint of a tangy flavor. It has a classical flavor without any modern elements and is delicious warmed or at room temperature.
This is my first time drinking Akita's Asamai Sake Brewery ✨.
The frogs on the label are adorable!
The aroma is a little floral.
The mouthfeel is clean and refreshing.
Clear with no cloying taste.
Nothing stuck in the mouth, a delicious sake ✨.
Jagotaro means countryman, apparently.
The taste is around umami and pungency.
The richness of the umami in the middle part is mellowed by the oriki.
It lingers with a little sourness.
Memorandum
Sake rice Miyamanishiki
Polishing ratio 55
The mouthfeel is neither sweet nor spicy. The aftertaste is clear with a touch of sourness. As the name "water" implies, it has no habits. Easy to drink.
Rice used: Miyamanishiki
Rice polishing ratio: 55
Yeast used: No.10
Sake meter: +2
Acidity: 1.5
Alcohol content: 15
It has a mysterious ginjo aroma and flavor, with a strong acidity and a refreshing aftertaste.
A souvenir from my trip to Akita, at Sugakyu Shoten near Eiraku Shokudo. Akita's local sake festival. I was attracted by the No. 6 yeast, so I went ahead and bought one.
As is typical of yeast No. 6, the sake had a sour taste. The next day it was mellower and tastier.
It reminded me of the tuna, musuko and tarako I had at the Akita market. ☺️
Sake from Yokote City, Akita Prefecture
🌾Grain rice: 100% Miyamanishiki from Akita Prefecture
Rice polishing ratio: 55
Alcohol content: 15%.
This is a summer draft sake with "water" as its theme.
It has a strong flavor, but it tastes light. It is also cool to the eye. Delicious.
[This is the seventh brewery in the Akita sake focus period.]
[At a liquor store I sometimes go to.]
Sake from Yokote City, Akita Prefecture
🌾Grain rice: Akita rice
Rice polishing ratio: 45
Yeast used: In-house yeast
Alcohol content: 16%.
Method of pressing: Tank shibori
Water used for brewing: Spring water from the brewery
Recommended temperature: ◎Cold sake ○Regular temperature
🍶I felt grapes for a moment. I thought I felt grapes for a moment, and then I drank it while savoring it. I thought I felt grapes for a moment and continued drinking, savoring the taste. It may have been my imagination, but in any case, it was delicious, with a good balance of sweet and spicy and umami.
[This was the seventh brewery in Akita's sake focus period.]
[At my first sake shop.]