ワカ太
Today is the first nice day in a long time: ☀️
My daughter is out of town for an Easter event, so the hubby and I are quietly enjoying a garden barbecue 🍖 (even though we have a drinking party at work in the evening💦).
I opened a bottle of Aki Tiger Foam, "Soto", with the intention of drinking it lightly. It seems to be made with Kankanmaru, a yeast originally developed by Kochi Prefecture.
Well, take a sip. The first sip is a strong, shwashy, bitter taste that hits you hard. But as you slowly down it, the sourness and sweetness come in a flurry, leaving a refreshing aftertaste. It's quite a good balance, as you would expect 😊.
I started with a skewer of firefly squid I saw on Instagram. The bitterness of this Aki Tiger goes great with the depth of the firefly squid's wata 😋💕It matched the salty meat and made me happy for lunch on a nice day ☺️🩷
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ひるぺこ
Hi Wakata-san. I thought it was beer, but it's sake 😳I'm also curious about the yeast called kankanmaru 😍A wonderful spring day lunch with seared firefly squid: ☀️
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ma-ki-
Good evening, Mr. Wakata!
I was wondering if it was beer too, but I see it's sake 😲.
I love the idea of you and your wife barbecuing in the garden 😋.
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ワカ太
Hi Hirupeko, good evening 😃Yes, it looked like a gut beer, but it was a delicious nigori fizzy one😍.
I looked up Kan Kan Maru and found that it has a balance of sourness and sweetness. Sounds like a delicious description 😆👍.
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ワカ太
ma-ki-, good evening 😃This bottle looks like something you would find in a craft beer 😁Drinking alcohol in the daytime is somehow delicious, and I think it's doubled when you drink outside 😅We tend to drink outside when we want to drink in the daytime.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Hi Wakata 😃.
I'm so glad you had a great day off 😙 absorbing the sunshine and sake element during the day 😁 in preparation for the evening drinks 🥰I'm going to learn from you!
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ワカ太
Hi Jay & Nobby 😃It was a great day, idyllic spring sunshine and drinks 😆💕Drinking at night, we had Jigikin and Jyushidai, but I couldn't touch them because we had all-you-can-drink, and the beer tasted like tears 😭.
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ポンちゃん
Hi Waka 🐦.
The fuzzy tiger is a nice touch 😊 and the shwash is great for drinking on a sunny lunch day 😆👍I love firefly squid but I've never had a seared one 😳 Looks delicious 😻
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ワカ太
Good evening, Ponchan 😃This tiger has a lot of flavor 😁Seared firefly squid with mayonnaise and shichimi goes very well with mayonnaise and shichimi. ‼️ Please give it a try. ‼️
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