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Continued by Hirase Sake Brewery 🤗.
Masamune hunters found another "Masamune" 👀.
We found a wooden sign hanging in front of the brewery that said "Nadaryu Masamune" 🤩.
I looked it up after I left and found on the brewery's website that it was brewed around 1915. I can't seem to find it in my searches, too maniacal😅.
Now, here is the sake 🍶.
⚫︎ Kusudama Junmai Daiginjo Yamadanishiki
It's a standard spec. It has a mild sweetness and a bitter and astringent aftertaste. It has a mellow ginjo aroma and is right in the middle 🎯 of everything. After all, Yamada-Nishiki is a sake rice that can be the axis of your taste buds 🌾.
⚫︎400 year anniversary sake
Unlike Yamadanishiki, this one has a calm and reserved taste. The sweetness and restrained umami create a smooth and soft sweetness 😚.
⚫︎ fall-up
Modest sweetness and a little bitterness. Naturally, it is less fresh, but the taste of autumn sake is thick and deep 🍂.
Thanks to the fixed price for the tasting, we were able to drink at a leisurely pace, and it was a great sake brewery 🥰.
Furthermore, I could feel the history of the brewery and Masamune, so it was a very satisfying visit to the brewery. ☺️
Hi Hiro 🐦🐦.
I enjoyed your brewery tour, Masamune Hunter and many more...but I see it's just one day ‼️ I checked again and it's all on September 13th😳I'm a big fan of the interval 🤣.
Thanks for your super fulfilling sake activities😊.
Good evening, Pon 😃.
Yes, it was a great trip! It was a very fulfilling sake trip as we cleared our goal of Masamune and visited a lot of sake breweries 😆.
We drank so much that we got drunk and had to take a break for lunch without sake 😂.
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This is the last sake brewery.
This is Hirase Sake Brewery, the brewery farthest from Takayama Station.
Here you can drink as much as you want for 1,000 yen for 30 minutes 😍.
You pour your own sake from the bottles lined up in the fridge 🍶.
As you may have noticed from the store sign, Kusudama originally had "Masamune" attached to it.
Masamune Hunter's research had informed us that it had become "Kusudama" due to the unification of brands, but since it was a good opportunity, we asked the brewery staff about it.
I asked the brewery staff about it, and they told me that they had stopped using "Masamune" and kept only the trade name due to the unification of brands.
Another Masamune has disappeared🥲.
⚫︎ Kusudama Junmai Daiginjo
Slightly sweet and umami. It has a clean aroma, soft and gentle mouthfeel, and the Junmai Daiginjo sake character is permeating every corner of the bottle 🤗.
⚫︎Kusudama Junmai Nama
It has a soft mouthfeel and freshness on the throat 😚.
⚫︎Kusudama Handmade Junmai
It has a slightly rough and hard mouthfeel, but it has the qualities that only junmai sake has 😙.
If it had "Masamune" on it, I would say the usual cliché... but this time I finished with "no Masamune" 🤗.
Good evening, Hiro-san!
You are having another great sake party 🎵.
I enjoyed watching your Sake from Gifu since I don't have many chances to encounter Gifu's Sake 🤗.
Sorry to hear about the No Masamune 😅.
Good morning, ma-ki-😃.
Gifu has some good sake too, so I hope this helps a little 😄.
They removed "Masamune" during the rebranding and as a hunter I felt a little sad 🥹.
I was attracted by the one cup of Sarubobo in Takayama ⭕ and bought it.
I think it's dry but I also feel it's refreshing. ☺️ I think it's well-balanced. I think it's a good balance.
By the way, there was another type of Sarubobo one-cup, but I chose this one because it was Junmai. 🙆♀️
Purchased at a liquor store in Takayama City.
This time it is super dry. The aroma is almost nutty.
When you put it in your mouth, you can taste a little sourness and the strong alcohol (20 degrees) gives you a refreshing feeling characteristic of light dry sake.
Hidahomare 40% polished. Purchased at the brewery.
It has less intense sweetness and aroma than the nama-shu, but has a similar umami and lingering taste when drunk.
The Junmai Daiginjo was also opened.
The color is subdued, but the aroma is thicker and sweeter than that of Junmai-Daiginjo.
In the mouth, the sweetness of the rice was stronger than the acidity, and the sweetness spread even though the sake was dry, probably because it was also a nama-shu.
I had the luxury of comparing three bottles of the same brand, but when you can see such a difference even in the same brand, you can understand the depth of junmai sake.
I bought it from a roadside station or a supermarket where it was sold in a single-bottle. The brewery only had a four-unit bottle.
I drank it after drinking the special junmai.
The color is darker than the Junmai, and the smell is a little stronger.
The sweetness in the acidity has increased, making it even easier to drink.
The 11th sake brewery in Gifu Prefecture.
This is the main brand of Hirase Sake Brewery, one of the seven breweries in Takayama City.
We purchased this sake at the brewery during the Hida-Takayama Nobei Matsuri (Sake Festival).
We purchased Junmai and Junmai Daiginjo, and Junmai Ginjo later at a roadside station.
When you put it in your mouth, you will feel a sweetness similar to melon after the sourness.
A free solo trip for adults spent slowly at Kai Okuhida 🥹.
One of the brands we had for dinner was ✨️
It was a gem with a soft, smooth aroma and full flavor brewed only with Yamadanishiki rice and rice malt. 🙆♀️
Good evening, juju!
I see you had a solo trip to Okuhida in June 🎵.
It's nice to travel alone and take it easy 🚃.
I used to travel alone a lot when I was younger and I wish I had known about sake back then 😁✨.
