I have been wanting to try Shichida for a long time.
It's so good!
Added to my favorite brands✨
Sashimi to go with it: whelk, bigeye tuna, and sea robin!
A bottle of Juichi-Masamune by Morito Shuzo, a local sake brewery in the area.
You have to go directly to the brewery to buy this bottle, which makes it a little special!
The bottle was naked when I opened it, so I transplanted the label to take a picture 🤫.
The brewer told us that it is not flashy, but it goes well with all kinds of food.
It was exactly as he said, a well-balanced sake that would complement the food. ☺️
Tempura of ayu fish as a side dish
Good morning, Washomaru Suisan!
I'm so envious that you have a brewery in your hometown of all hometowns: ⤴️
The best part of enjoying sake is that it tastes great with food 😋.
Tempura and sake - my favorite 🤤.
Good morning ma-ki-, ☀️
I would like to support my local brewery by drinking their sake, but I'm having a hard time because I'd like to try many other brands 🥺.
Tempura and sake go well together 🥰.
Good morning, Washomaru Suisan 😃.
A very special bottle of Juichi Masamune! You're the only one with a label transplant ‼️Tempura sweetfish and all things local 😋.
Love Tochigi 🥰.
Good morning Jay & Nobby, ☀️
I made a custom label 😂 I wanted to pair local sake with something local to eat, and we just had ayu fish, so it was a Tochigi Marriage....
We decided to try some dry sake, so the third bottle was a blue bottle from Boshimaya.
It was 17% alcohol and very dry, so I thought it would be good on the rocks!
The second bottle was a local Tochigi Prefecture sake with a slightly different flavor.
Aikoku" is one of the three major varieties of sake cultivated in the Meiji era (1868-1912) and brewed using the traditional sake yeast.
Everyone was surprised at how different it tasted, so I think that alone was a good thing. ☺️
I didn't have time to take pictures, so I laid out the empty bottles the next day 🤫.
Four of the trainees (college and graduate students) had never eaten, or rather seen, ayu fish, so we had ayu fish party: 🐟️
The menu was grilled ayu fish, tempura and fried ayu fish.
We also had a sake missionary activity at the same time.
We started with this sweet, refreshing and easy to drink sake!
This is a gift from Gunma.
He bought it at a roadside station in Shibukawa, and this brand was the only one he could find.
I didn't like the aftertaste, which is peculiar to alcoholic beverages.
The gorgeous aroma spread as soon as the bottle was opened!
It's schwashy and has a great mouthfeel. ☺️
We served tempura ayu fish and deep-fried sculpin we had in stock!
On this day, we dug potatoes in the morning and grilled ayu fish in the afternoon.
About 30 ayu fish were given away for free to a family that loves ayu fish!
Now, what about the first "Suitama"?
It's delicious with a great mouthfeel!
It has a strong flavor, but it's very refreshing!
We still have some Hana Yuu in stock, so we are looking forward to comparing the two!
Masaaki Sapporo-san Good morning. ☀️ I have to say that it was my favorite, but it was really good and I would like you to have a bottle of it if you see it. ☺️
It had been in the cage (fridge) for 2 weeks and opened 🌲.
Sour and tasty!
I recently started going to a very austere fish shop and had some toro-butsu and aori-ika sashimi....
I prefer the Jungin from Oumachi, but it is also delicious!
I've been grilling last year's ayu (sweetfish) because this year's fishing season will start in a month.
I'm also grilling rainbow trout with salt as a snack!
Good evening, Mr. Washomaru Suisan!
You can drink water as a snack 😁✨✨.
Jikin's special junmai is really delicious 😋😋.
The snacks look delicious too 🤤🤤🤤🤤.
Refreshing aroma and refreshingly crisp!
It was the kind of sake you would want to chill and drink in the summer 🍶.
It was empty before it got too hot...
I enjoyed it with bonito sashimi, fried horse mackerel and smoked cheese.
I bought it to try because it said "big fried horse mackerel", but it was a big battered fried horse mackerel 😞.
Good evening brother, it was a great match with the bonito ✨Next time I buy fried horse mackerel, I'll have to look at the size of the tail fins as well lol.
For the first time in about 20 years, I processed catfish and made tempura.
Surprisingly, it had no smell or habit and was a little different from the image I had in the past 🤔.
In a good sense, anyone can eat it, in a bad sense, it has no individuality and no flavor.
It is a pairing failure as it is very much defeated by the deliciousness of the sake. LOL!
The fried sweetfish is stable 🆗.