Cold sake
The color of the liquid is a little yellowish.
The aroma is similar to that of aged sake...sweet and medicinal.
When you put it in your mouth, you can taste the umami.
Oak-like aroma on the nose, and alcohol on the tongue.
The aftertaste is crisp.
Hot sake
50°C
The alcohol is much more sharp in the mouth than cold sake, and the taste is mildly sweet with heavy umami and bitterness.
However, in the mouth it is strangely refreshing and crisp.
When paired with the cartilage ponzu, the peculiar aroma disappears and the sweetness is felt intensely.
The smoothness that goes down your throat is a nice touch that drains away the fat.
It is a good heated sake to drink with food.
I wanted this bottle. If you ding it as it is, a moderate lukewarmness will be ready in a jiffy. The taste is rich and mellow, characteristic of Kenrishi. This is good.
Stay with the stopped clock."
At the Kenbishi brewery, they are making an ongoing effort to keep the taste the same. I have read about it in a magazine.
Mellow aroma. Punchy! It's a gutsy royal road! This must be addictive~!
Around this time, I heard a light musical performance.
A band of trumpets and other musicians appeared! The performers paraded through the shopping street wearing the happi of each brewery.
It was a big party! They were applauding!
Maybe it was my age, but I was so moved that tears started to well up in my eyes (lol).
Thank you for the happiness.
Fat Hyakumoku Junmai Daiginjo
It's from the Kiku-Masamune brewery!
Delicious!
Fruity. The taste was very stable and delicious!
My wife drank it at a party and said it was very tasty, so I was curious to know how it differed from regular Kenrishi.
My wife wanted to drink it again, so I bought it.
It tastes richer than regular Kembishi, and has a mellowness and thickening (atmosphere) like brown sugar, honey, or brandy.
Kenrishi itself has a long history, so it is a sake with a flavor that is focused on aging, and Gokujo Kuromatsu Kenrishi is a sake with a long history that is deeply rooted in the flavor that people loved in the past.
To put it another way, it is a good old traditional taste, so I don't think it will be popular in the modern age, but I can easily imagine that it has a strong fan base.
I can imagine that there must be a strong fan base for this. But I respect it.
Second day of opening. The spiciness (is this aging?) is addictive. It's very addictive. However, I personally think it is better to drink it cold because the alcohol taste is too strong when it is warmed up to lukewarm or hot.
I bought it two days ago, but I didn't look closely at the date of manufacture and it was more than six months ago. I have no choice but to open it as soon as possible. It is full-bodied and has a nice firm spiciness! This is good!
I bought it immediately when I saw it on sale at Direx for 2,000 yen per bottle!
I've always preferred Kenrishi as a heated sake, but it's quite tasty chilled as well.
It has just the right amount of maturity and sweetness, and the tanginess of the aluzoe is irresistible!
Drink it hot.
The aroma is of koji mold, and the color is dark.
Taste: koji sweetness and strong umami, a little bitterness at the end.
Definitely a mellow type that goes well with heated sake.