I went to the Young Dawn 2025. I was so disappointed with the disappointing results of today's tasting test that I was sober and drank a lot of sake. Some of the sake was brewed in the U.S. and China.
Fried chicken breast with truffle & mayo sauce. The slightly fruity aroma is banana-like. It has a slightly rough texture when you take a sip, and the volume of sweetness is followed by bitterness and alcohol at the end, making it a good sake. I tried it with Toyo Bijin Jyundo Ittou (low alcohol) and Kikuhime Yamahai Junmai Kanzake (dark mellow), but today the Hakuryu was the best match for me. If it had been chicken thigh, it might have been Kikuhime.
Good evening, Mr. Screaming Butterfly!
This one by Hakuryu is delicious, isn't it?
I had it a little while ago, and I thought it was dry, but it was sweet and fruity with a nice sharpness that made me squeal 🤗.
Hello, screaming butterflies 😃.
Mr. White Dragon! It's delicious 😊
We went to the liquor store yesterday to buy some Hakuryu's autumn sake 🚙 but they were sold out 😩.
We have to go back for revenge!
Jay & Nobby Good evening! Too bad it's sold out 😭It looks like a nice calm fall up 😍After that it's the new sake festival and it's fun all year round😂.
The dish proposed by Gemini (Google AI), which was loaded with full specs and flavor data, was "Chicken Chicken Sasami with Ume Plum and Shiso. The light flavor of the white meat is combined with the sourness of the plum and the coolness of the shiso. After eating, take a sip of sake, and you will be pleasantly surprised by the sourness of the ume plum and the light sweetness of the sake. If you eat the sake and the dish together, the acidity and bitterness of both the sake and the plum and shiso may be a little noisy.
It is a good sake.
The full, sweet umami taste is smooth, with moderate bitterness overlapping the moderate acidity that gradually spreads, fading out naturally while leaving a lingering sweetness. It is a beautiful sake with a sense of unity. It has been three years since I have tasted anything other than nigori, but it is delicious.
We tried to see which sake would go best with mackerel simmered in miso. We tried three different sake: Eiheiji Hakuryu Junmai Daiginjo, Houou Mita Moustache Ban Junmai Daiginjo, and Kikuhime Yamahai Junmai. Kikuhime won hands down. The concentrated flavor and fatty taste of mackerel and the salty taste of miso harmonize with the rich Kikuhime. It is delicious.
Good evening, Mr. Shouting Butterfly! The combination with saba-miso (mackerel miso) sounds delicious.
Kikuhime Yamahai has even more flavor when heated, so give it a try when the weather cools down a little more!
Good evening, Mr. Shouting Butterfly. I am glad to hear that you were able to share a delicious way to drink 😆 Kikuhime Yamahai seems to go well with mackerel miso, broiled eel, and slightly fatty rice! I've been wanting to drink it for a long time after writing this.
After two summers at room temperature, I am looking forward to seeing how it turns out. The conclusion was different from what we expected, with almost no sense of maturity. There was no off-flavor, no condensed sweetness, and it was the usual sweet and sour Ine Mangaka. Is it tough because of the high acidity? While heating it up with Masa-san's recipe from Guts, the sake warmer, I imagined that a fermented type such as kasuzuke would surely go well with it. It is delicious.
Tanaka Rokuugo with Tempura, delicious. This sake has a soft and gentle sweetness on the palate. It has a low alcohol content of 14 degrees, so even when combined with other food, it has a pleasant finish without a hint of alcohol. Tanaka Rokuugo is especially good with red pumpkin from Aizu Kinzan and mountain salt from Urabandai.
Good evening, screaming butterflies😃.
Sake 🍶 with delicious tempura is the best 🤗 we were just looking for a good tempura restaurant the other day too 😋.
I saw it on the street for the first time and took it home. It is made with 88% polished rice. It has bubbles and is slightly yellow in color. The temperature is high (12°C), the taste is soft and calmly sweet, and it has some body, probably due to the low milling rate. It is delicious.
It is a once-in-a-lifetime event. 1) Comparison of Banshu Yamada-Nishiki 3 years aged sake and 1 time hi-irin (same BY). (2) Nakadori Junmai, a comparison of the same brand with a different BY (1 year and 4 years of aging). (3) Comparison of Aizan and Sake Mirai (aged 3 years). We had an extraordinary evening. The owner kindly offered us a bottle of Aizan 10year old (he said it was like sherry), but we declined because we were not confident we could taste it properly since the alcohol was already advanced. Next time, I promised myself a heated bottle of Jyushiyo and a bottle of Aizan 10year old.
Good morning, screaming butterflies 😃.
The 14yo that you mentioned! It was a wonderful once in a lifetime experience 😌we would have definitely taken it 😅 but your decision to wait until autumn so that you can fully enjoy it is a great one 😊.
Good evening, Jay & Nobby! Jyushidai was originally a pure sake, but at some point the water content was increased to 15% Alc, and they thought they couldn't serve it to customers who liked pure sake, so they started to bring it closer to the original flavor by aging it.
A drink after the party. We entertain a business partner's rep and his superior's former rep. We greeted him with a craft beer from his hometown brewer, and for his superior, who cannot drink alcohol, we welcomed him with a mango fruity non-alcoholic craft beer from Space Brewing. After that, I offered Jikin Akaban Omachi Hi-ire, which didn't get a very good reaction... I ended up emptying most of the Jikin by myself, the guests left, cleaned up, and here we are.
This is delicious. The sweetness was unexpectedly good, and I would like to enjoy the afterglow of the day.
I got it to study for the tasting exam, but inadvertently did not do any flavor analysis and am now in the mood to drink it.
It has a soft, slightly effervescent taste when served cold, and some people may have the impression that it is "dry. If you go to taste it properly, you will find that it is very sweet, but the acidity is also well-balanced with a cool lactic acidity that passes through your nostrils.
This is perfection! The acidity is superbly blended in, and it is delicious!
Jay & Nobby Good evening! It was so good that I almost finished a bottle 😂Today, the lactic acid acidity is much more pronounced, including a strong flavor analysis, which is a very different impression from when I was in drinking mode😊.
It's a wonder I can't drink sake to prepare for the sake exam (it's hard to study bio-chemistry when you're drunk...). Thanks to this, I passed the written exam but failed the tasting exam, so I will try again next month. It has a refreshing taste with a moderate sweetness, a slight effervescence, and acidity that gives it a clean, hard taste. The sharpness of the aftertaste is impressive, with a trailing succinic acidity. A friend of mine made a reservation today at a restaurant that serves home-aged Jyushiyo, and I'm really looking forward to it.
Hi, screaming butterfly 😃.
I was thinking 🤔 you haven't been up for a while, but I see you were working on your Sake exam! It's hard to get it into your head without drinking it 😓Retry next month! Good luck ‼️
The third one sounds like a dream 🥹.
It is still delicious.
The initial impression is clean and dry, but it has a wonderful crispness with sweetness and umami at the back of the tongue. Junmai Ginjo and Junmai Daiginjo are a bit on the dry side, and I like the moderate sweetness and flavor of this special junmai.
The information was unusually close to the full specs, but this is not what I would call "dry". It is moderately sweet and tasty, with a bit of roughness and bitterness, and has a nice sharpness that I like.
Alc 16%, Sake Degree +1.5, Acidity 1.2, Amino Acid 1.0, Miyamanishiki, Polishing ratio 59%, Bottle fired, Yeast unknown
Out of season, the aluzoe shiboritate nama sake, heated to 60°C, is cooked rice, and delicious. Considering the current state of the world, I thought it was very luxurious to feel the hokuhoku rice from the liquid.
The bottle mouth is so tight (see photo) that I was wary of how much it would spill. I was a bit wary, but I was able to open the bottle without any problems.
It is sweet, sour, carbonated, citrusy, and with a low Alc of 10%, perfect for this season. Tonight we had a rich meat dish, so the wash effect made the drink and the meal go down well.
Tainai Kogen Beer, which we ordered from Murakami, is going out of business this month, so we were able to experience the gentle flavor of Niigata Koshihikari just in time.
Hi screaming butterfly, ☀️
I've had this before and it's citrus dry, sizzling and delicious 😆 10 degrees is almost beer, so it's great guilt free 🥳(personal opinion 🤣).
While having a drink, I was looking at this page, thinking that there are so many posts about Shinsei today. I opened it by coincidence. I was impressed again that this is made from rice. It is delicious.
Good evening, Mr. Shouting Butterfly!
You are loved by Sake today for accidentally opening a bottle of Shinmasa 😁✨✨.
I had a bottle of Cosmos for the first time last year and it was really delicious and impressive 😋.
I did my best at work and my business partner's representative followed a lead and ordered it for me.
It is delicious with just a little bit of gasiness.
It is a sunny daytime drink. The last one from Hakurakusei Junmai Ginjo, Wakamusume Ruri Karakusa, was Semishigure. It seems designed to be sweet and sour, but the clean and natural taste leaves us with nothing but good feelings and surprise. It is made with Nagano yeast R and isoamyl type, which is understandable. There is no flashy ginjo aroma, and the coolness of the hints is not unpleasant, but the finish is pleasant.
Hello, screaming butterflies 😃.
Cicadas 😍One of our picks that we never miss drinking every year ‼️ isn't it delicious 😋.
We naturally have a reserve of it in our fridge as well 😊I'm looking forward to drinking it🤗.
Good evening, Mr. Screaming Butterfly!
Sunny daytime drinking is the best ⤴️
Cicada, you got your first one in over 2 years 😋.
A good drink is truly bliss 😊.
I'm really looking forward to drinking it 😁✨
Good evening, screaming butterflies ✨I was so happy to see that you drank the same drink on the same day and commented on how you felt about it! I was so happy to comment.
It was a really good drink 😊.
Good morning, ma-ki! I finally had a chance to meet you at the right time 😊It is raining here today, but it will be nice to feel the original atmosphere of rainy weather and cicadas (only during the daytime) 😂.
I am completely hooked on Chiyo-men (Chiyo-member = sake brewers of the Chiyo Sake Brewery, apparently). After experiencing several bottles of Shinomine, my first whale is also delicious. The specs are supposed to be much more refreshing, but the sweetness is just right for me these days.
Alc 16%, Sake degree +8, Acidity 2.2, Amino acidity 0.9, Yeast No. 6 (according to a certain liquor store), A little carbonation on the first day of drinking.
Hello, screaming butterflies 😃
We are Tochimen (members who love Tochigi sake 😆) and we have only had one bottle of Shinomine 😁, we would like to drink Rokumaru and Kujira and join the Chiyomen 🤗.
Hi Jay & Nobby! Speaking of tochimen, I was in downtown Tokyo the other day and came across a liquor store that only carries all kinds of shikizakura 😂 I didn't buy it then because I was too low on information, but I'd like to go back 😊.