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ellieellie
ellie と名乗っていますが男です。サザン好きなのでこの名前です。学生のころは日本酒は好きではなかったのですが、3年前に澤屋まつもとに感動し、嗜むようになりました。おつまみの料理を色々試していますが、なにが合うとか細かいことはわかりません。未熟につき、どなたでも一言アドバイスを落としていってくれると嬉しいです。休日は各地の地酒を飲むことを楽しんでいます。

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Sanjurokuninshu超辛口 美山錦100%純米
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ellie
It was given to me by a colleague last year when I was having a very hard time at work 😆. What a bottle 😮 I won't have it for another month. It tastes like a dry royal road. It has a mellow and delicious taste. It is very easy to drink🙆 It is even easier to drink with ice. It is also delicious when heated 😋. I served it with a side dish of pickled round eggplant with sake lees (made by Naritaya Brewery in Matsudai). Delicious, but well, salty 😆 Nagano's food has a lot of preserved foods. The tamari soy sauce here is very tasty.
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ellie
I bought this one last December. I bought it on impulse because it was advocated in Sake-no-wa that you should buy Nabeshima Tokujun when you see it 😅. This is my first time drinking it. It didn't spill, but when I took a sip, I was like "this is good! I'm like 😆. The best part is the clear acidity 🥹 I'm a sucker for acidity and I was impressed. A little complex and sharp. I was also impressed by the acidity of my first rice wine, but this is a different kind 🥺 really delicious 😋. I had a junmai ginjo (purple) of Yamadanishiki before, but I like this one better. The Fuji in the picture is from April. There is no snow on the ground yet this fall.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Hi ellie 😃 Definitely a recommendation 🤗Nabeshima's special pure is delicious 😋. I'm looking forward to seeing your photos of this year's capped snow 🗻👋.
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ellie
Hi Jay & Novi😃 I went to buy Sawaya Matsumoto but I flipped out and bought this one lol. Turns out you are right👍. I wonder when the snow cap will be due to climate change...
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MatsumidoriPETILLANT S.tokyo純米吟醸おりがらみ発泡
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ellie
I drank too much... This is too easy to drink💦. PETILLANT seems to be a Fula word meaning fizzy. This drink seems to have been served at some international summit 🧐. It has a very sweet mouthfeel and a clean carbonation without any cloying taste. The carbonation is unexpectedly clear. I would say it smells slightly grapey, but it is one step away from that. Many posters call it a wine, and the mouthfeel is exactly as it should be. After it goes down your throat, it's a solid sake 😁.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Good morning, ellie 😃 Pine Midori! I was at the liquor store the other day and noticed something about this brand 🤗I've seen it a lot when I'm curious 😅 here it looks good too 😋.
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ellie
Hi Jay & Novi😃 I bought this at the warehouse. According to the clerk, all the customers buy this all the time 🙃. There is also a non-foamed version ^ ^^^ delicious 😋.
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ポンちゃん
Hi ellie 🐦. It is so easy to drink that you drink too much, isn't it? I've read about it in magazines and I'd love to try it 😻The gate of the brewery looks like it was modern at the time ✨.
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ellie
Good evening, Pon-chan ^ ^ ^ You see an unusual place with a gate 😮 I didn't notice it at all 😓I really wanted a brand called Ryo, but it seems to be released in the early spring. This sake had an easy to understand taste. No cloying taste 🤔.
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若竹大井川の詩純米吟醸
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ellie
A work-related sake party with invited guests from Gunma. I learned a lot, but I'm kind of tired today 🥱. The sake was a little dry 🍶.
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亀の海蝉しぐれ純米吟醸
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ellie
I bought it at a store called FURUMAIYA in the station building when I visited Kawasaki. I was saddened to find out later that there was a draft sake available, and wished I could have had that one 😗. However, that feeling was blown away when I drank this one 😁. The freshness of the sake was just as fresh as the nama-shu. The sweetness and acidity are assertive, and there's plenty of schwarziness. Juicy and quite easy to drink ❗️ Last night's snacks were sashimi and leek ball. I'm going to try grilled pork from Matsuno butcher store this evening 😆.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Hi ellie 😃 I haven't tasted this label but 🥲Kame no Umi no Semishigure is the most popular summer sake in our house 😙It's really easy to drink and delicious 👍.
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ellie
Good evening Jay & Novi😄 I have tried several summer sakes and Semi Shigure is the ideal one for me! Summer sake tends to be lighter, but the mellowness is not compromised. Very tasty!
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勢正宗APPLE CARP もち米熱掛四段仕込純米吟醸原酒生酒無濾過
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ellie
At the end of my summer vacation, I went to Nagano to see a friend. We stopped by Zenkoji temple, but it was a day trip and we didn't have enough time to see all of it😅. Well, what I brought back was Seimasamune. Cool name and label. I decided I've never had apple acid yeast before 🙂. It has a very gentle taste. Apple-like sweetness and acidity. I feel like the sweetness is on the surface and the sourness is hidden. Delicate 😋 well surely fruit apples are not that sour 🤔I thought it was a bit too sweet for me so I added ice. I wonder how it would taste with soda?
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ellie
Today we will open a very special one that is not available in Shizuoka 😋. Continuing our trip to Shiga. Going north in Nagahama, there is the Tomita Sake Brewery, famous for the Seven Spears, and a few doors down is the Yamaji Sake Brewery, but we passed them on our way over the Mt. On the way to Saba Highway, we happened to find Yoshida Sake Brewery. It is very close to Sugaura village, which we were looking for, so we definitely wanted to stop by here rather than Tomita Sake Brewery 🤔. Apparently it is a brewery that is being revitalized by a company started by a Gekkeikan alumnus. Pon-chan told me about it😊I looked it up and it seems to be a company called Yume Sake Brewery. In the second photo, on the right is Chikubu Island. If you go into the back of the peninsula on the left, you will find Sugaura. Now for the taste... The sweetness is moderate and sharp^ ^ ^I think the umami is high! The sake taste that comes to your nose at the end is also refreshing😄That's pretty good. It went well with sashimi. The two pictures in the back are Sugaura, which I wanted to visit at least once. The four-legged gate marking the boundary of Somura and the Suga Shrine, where shoes are strictly prohibited. You have to take off your shoes from these stairs.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Hi ellie 😃 Beautiful paintings 🖼️ like the labels😍and the fact that you can see the scenery in the pictures 👍Memorable one 🤗. Ah! I didn't realize 😅Congratulations on your 100+ ㊗️ 🎉!
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ellie
Hi Jay & Novi😃. Thank you 😊 I bought it because I was visiting with this view! This is why buying sake when traveling is so much fun 🤩.
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ポンちゃん
Hi ellie 🐦 I've never been to Sugaura even though I'm in Shiga. I've never been to Sugaura even though I'm in Shiga 💦It has an atmosphere of God's presence ✨I haven't had a drink at Chikubujima since it was rebuilt, so it's been a while since I've tasted it 😊.
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ellie
Good evening, Ponchan😄 Sugaura is not so easy to visit even for history buffs😅because I love things😅. I bought it because of the label, but I could also see Chikubu Island from Sugaura, so I bought it immediately! I have another bottle of another brand in the fridge 🤭.
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Koeigiku月影 亀の尾 BY21原酒生酒無濾過
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ellie
I have a very special sake I brought back from Shiga 🤔. But I held back a little and opened this bottle 🍾 which had been left unopened since last year. I guess it's an autumn sake, given the theme of "moonlight" 🍂. Sake no Iwase has a wide variety of Koei chrysanthemums, with a variety of BYs. I bought an old one to try. It's been almost 3 years since I bought it, but I'm not sure how it tastes. ⁉️ Well, how does it taste? Yes, it's good. It has an obvious Koueikiku-like sourness and sweetness, and the aroma is obvious. I'm impressed that I can still drink it after 3 years 🥺I don't know what the original taste is, but it is generally round. But it seems thick and nice. The chiliiness is still there...I think. I can't see the beautiful Mt. Fuji these days and can't take pictures 🫤.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Good evening, ellie 😃 I'm curious to know what Shiga's specials are 🤔 but I'm also curious about the Koei chrysanthemums that have been laid up for 3 years 😆.
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ellie
Good evening Jay & Nobby🌇. I've only had the twilight orange, but this one is mellow 😋 The acidity seems to be intact. Not that Shiga sake is expensive, but it's something you can never get in Shizuoka: ❗️
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えりりん
Congratulations on your 🎊100☆🎉! It's not easy to open a bottle of sake that you've kept for a long time. A sake lover I know said that about 3 years is the perfect amount of time to lay it down: ☺️
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ellie
Good evening Erin 🌆. Thank you 😊I enjoy going out by car, so I buy sake on the way out and hoard it 💧. Letting it sit for 3 years...it surely gives depth to the Koei chrysanthemum and it's delicious ❗️
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ellie
It's a stopover house drink after a night out drinking. Since I am a friend of the liquor store, I was given a rare sake to drink 🧐 It seems to be a sample sake that has not been released yet: ❗️ Hakutsuru is a Nada sake, but this one is only 8 degrees alcohol. It's not a strange one, it's a straight up 8% 😆. It's not too sweet, so it's kind of like white wine. Really wine ❗️
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ellie
I bought this Kyoto souvenir 🍾 from my childhood friend's liquor store. I thought it would be a good idea to buy sake at the liquor store, but since my main business is a soy sauce shop, I thought it was okay 🧂After having a drink outside, they let me stop by their house and have one 😁I opened a bottle of the souvenir. I haven't looked up the origin of this brewery, but it was located on the same site as Kyodo Sake Brewery. As you can see in the photo, there are two nameplates hanging on the wall. This place used to be the former residence of the Satsuma clan. There was a stone pillar like that to the right of the telegraph pole 🧐. The taste is... It is quite sweet with an accentuated sourness but also sharp. The sweetness has a profound feeling. It is very easy to drink, just as it is reputed to be 😋.
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Masaaki Sapporo
ellie, thank you for all your help 👍Congratulations on the 100 check-ins 🎉Ten stone, looks delicious 😋.
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ellie
Hi Masaaki😄 100 checks before you know it! I didn't notice 😓Thank you ❗️ The much talked about Juishi is very tasty 😆 I heard that the production is very small, so it was very precious.
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ma-ki-
Hi ellie, good evening. Congratulations on your 100 check-ins, even though it's a little late 🎉. I'm looking forward to seeing another photo collaboration with you and Mr. Fuji 🗻. Keep up the good drinking life ~ ☺️
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ellie
Hi ma-ki-😃 100 before you know it, thank you 😊I realized that I often drink sake from Tohoku when I went in search of good sake 🧐. It's a pity that it's hard to capture beautiful Fuji in summer because the gas covers it: ❗️
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ポンちゃん
ellie, congratulations on your 100th check-in 🎉! The brewery was on the verge of being shut down when the contract was cut by a major company, but the toji from the major company moved in and together they rebuilt the brewery. We are celebrating with sake from this historic place and brewery!
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ellie
Hi Pon 😃Thank you for noticing 😊. I looked it up and found out that it was originally a subcontractor of a big company? It was like a subcontractor to a major company 🧐I learned that there is such a form of subcontracting. ‼️ There have been a lot of stories about big companies reviving warehouses in recent years.
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ポンちゃん
Really! I'm glad to hear that, because subcontracting is something that can't be helped if it's cut off. Shiga was not a subcontractor either, but I am glad that there is a warehouse that was revived by a person from the same major company 😊. Sorry for repeating myself 🙇.
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ellie
On the way from Sugaura to Saba Kaido, we stopped at Yoshida Sake Brewery, maybe it's there 🫢I saw an article about it 😄.
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ポンちゃん
Yes, yes! You know me well and you went 👍😊. I look forward to your review of the drinks🎶.
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ellie
I happened to find this brewery on the road! I'll open a bottle next time 🎵 I'm interested in the Mie Prefecture brewery that Imuraya, the azuki bar company, has restored 🤔.
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ellie
Today I'm having a drink with a childhood friend 🍺. We were going to drink in Numazu, but because of the Nankai Trough warning, we decided to go in front of Fuji station to avoid a tsunami 🤨. There is a famous sake bar "Oto zakari" in Fuji city, but it was closed 😓. Well, here we are at Kudokibe. This is the first time to drink it. It has a fruity and sharp mouthfeel, but the final sharpness is just right and doesn't erase the sweetness. What a nice salted plum 🙆. I thought it was similar to Shizuoka's Shoyuki, so I compared them later, but Shoyuki seems to take everything with its sharpness at the end 🤔. My childhood friend who works at a liquor store lamented that after Corona, this brewery stopped distributing Kudoki-ueitate.
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ellie
On the last day of the Kohoku - Saba Kaido road trip, we visited Hibi Brewery ❗️ to buy some souvenirs to close out the trip. I was the only customer and I had to make an appointment to visit the brewery 😆. Two women served me and they were very friendly and happy 😄. They were selling three varieties: Akitsu Yamadanishiki, Kame-no-o and regular Yamadanishiki. There is a little space to park your car. There are Shokoku, Tama no Hikari, Jyuseki, etc. in close proximity within walking distance, which is as expected of Fushimi. The taste is very elegant 😋. If I say it is like water, that would be the end of the story, but both sweetness and aroma are well hidden when you taste it well. The side dishes are pumpkin tempura and horse mackerel tataki. I think it goes well with Japanese food. The photo shows the shoin at Ruriko-in and Katsura-rikyu. This is Shokintei seen from Gakuharo, do you see the checkered pattern small... 🧐.
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ポンちゃん
ellie, I enjoyed your Kohoku - Saba Road report 🙏. I've never been to the brewery here, so this will be helpful 😊I'd like to go there once. I see you went to Katsura Rikyu too! This might be the one I envy the most 😆👍✨
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ellie
Hi Pon 😃. You can make reservations for Hibi Brewing online, but there is a time limit for visiting 🧐. I enjoyed Katsura Rikyu more than I thought I would! We went around with a commentator and the man with the skinhead was wonderful.
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Tomio丹州山田錦純米吟醸
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ellie
Today's route Sugaura village - Yoshida sake brewery - Saba highway, Kutsuki inn - Koseiji temple - Kochiya Amida temple - Rurikoin temple It was a grand tour 😆. We successfully digested it all. All were good! Rurikouin was open only for a limited time, so it was crowded and ruined the atmosphere 😅. The staircase at Kochiya was a demon 💦. I will upload the sake from Yoshida Sake Brewery later. The photo is of the garden at Koseiji Temple. It is said that Ashikaga Yoshiharu created the garden when he stayed here to escape the upheaval in Kyoto. Then the Kutsuki Inn and the stairs up to Amida Temple in Kochiya. The evening is at a Kyoto izakaya. We had a whole meal of hamo (pike conger), manganji chili pepper, and saikyo yaki (Spanish mackerel grilled in Kyoto). The Tomio here is delicious 😋 hard, like hot spring water on the tongue. It was the ultimate in fruity. Tomorrow, we will finally visit that sake brewery in Fushimi 😎.
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Kohama長浜曳山まつり純米
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ellie
I have an early summer vacation 😆. I enjoy going on historical trips, and this time I plan to go from Omi Nagahama to Kohoku and enter Kyoto from Saba Kaido (mackerel road). The hotel we stayed at is a buffet and you can drink all the Junmai you want from Kohama. It's a good deal. ‼️ is enough for a buffet 🤣It has a light sharpness and a slight bitterness. The best way to get the most out of it is to buy a new one. I am satisfied. The interesting thing about Omi is that there are amazing things on display in places that seem like they are nothing. This time, we visited Mikakaku, a facility that exhibits relics of Chishokuji (abandoned temple), which was amazing... 🥺Asai documents and Buddhist statues from the Heian period were all around. We made friends with the volunteer interpreter and stayed for 2 hours. The photo shows Kotani Castle and the bridge where Mitsunari Ishida is said to have been captured, as one of the volunteers told us.
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ポンちゃん
ellie, welcome to Shiga! I've never been to Mikakaku 💦Kotani Castle is also one of the 100 best castles in Japan, so I'd like to visit both 😊thanks for the reference 🙏. Kohama Junmai is indeed good for a meal 😆.
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ellie
Good evening, Ponchan! I see you are from Shiga! Shiga is very interesting! Today we went to Sugaura village - Yoshida sake brewery - Kutsuki - Koseiji temple and entered Kyoto. There are still many places I want to see 😆.
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ポンちゃん
I was just thinking of walking the Saba Highway as well, so I will use this entire route as a reference 😁🙏🙏.
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ellie
I haven't been to Obama, but for history buffs, Koseiji is the place to go! 😆 It was quite a long way to Kyoto 🚗.
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SetoichiBlowin’ in the wind 風が吹いたら Another Edition 十水仕込み特別純米生貯蔵酒
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ellie
I had some time to kill, so I drove to Seto Sake Brewery in Ashigara. This brewery has a really wide variety of brands. After much hesitation, I bought two bottles 🤔. I heard that they don't produce any raw sake. I heard that the toji here doesn't like to change the taste. That's why they mainly store it fresh. They are very thorough. We had prepared a cooler box in anticipation of the fresh sake 😅. The brewery is equipped with a tatami room where you can drink while looking at the garden. I heard that highballs are recommended, so I had one of these. The subtitle of this article is very long. The taste is... It tasted very easy to drink without carbonation, and the gentle sweetness stood out! The side dishes were Spanish mackerel grilled with saikyo, cream cheese and mortadella.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Hi ellie 😃 I went to the brewery with a cooler box 🚙 and I was well prepared 😅. The words 'when the wind blows' reminded me of gout 😆.
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ellie
Good evening Jay & Nobby😁. That's what I've been told lol. The naming sense is as good as the yukata outfit that was uploaded earlier: ❗️
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健康居酒屋 しぞ~か 魚to畑 駅南銀座店
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ellie
A college junior came from Tokyo. Even though it's a weekday, I drank until late at night 😭 6am, will I be able to wake up? The sake was this one from Kojima Sohonten. The Hana no Keiji I had before had a strong impact on me, but the Yumi was very easy to drink even though it claims to be dry 😋.
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Fujinishiki富士山湧水仕込純米吟醸
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ellie
I bought this as a souvenir for a junior colleague who is visiting from Tokyo on a business trip tomorrow. It is rare to see this type of sake outside of the prefecture, so I often give it to my friends 😁. It's a very refreshing and light type of sake. Fuji, so they are very pleased 🍶.
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Tachibanaya雄町純米吟醸原酒生酒
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ellie
During my business trip to Yokohama in April, I was able to stop by Ichiishiya Sake Shop. They mainly carried sake from all over Japan, so I chose a sake that you don't see very often in Shizuoka 😆. Taste... Quite noticeably sweet. At room temperature, it is like candy. There is no sourness or bitterness, and it goes down like water. But at the end, it has a sake-like feeling that leaves your nose 😋 The snacks were grilled mackerel with rice malted rice and soba noodles. It has been a long time since I had a three-day weekend. Tomorrow I will either clean the house or go to Ashigara to visit a sake brewery 🤔...
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菊勇はるみさけ純米生酛
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ellie
I came to Onsen boldly because Monday is my substitute holiday♨️I decided to stay in Kamakura, thinking of having fun while visiting temples and shrines🤔. As a history buff, I wanted to stay at Iwamotoro at least once. I had been working hard since April, so I was excited to treat myself. The inside of the building is getting old, but I'm sure there are people who like this kind of thing. Now, the accompanying sake was Kikuyu from Yoshikawa Brewery. I brought it from home😅It's quite sweet, but unlike Ameyu, it has a habit of tasting like apricot wine. The bold food was a wonderful accompaniment. The sea in the photo is the view from the room. Fuji if the weather is clear🗻The cave bath and reference room are the highlight. It is said that the cave bath was originally a prison where children who worked as servants were locked up as punishment when they misbehaved.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Hi ellie 😃 I'm so glad you went to Kamakura🤗We stayed in Enoshima with our family probably more than 20 years ago😅Enjoy the hot spring ♨️ and the gorgeous inn food with sake🍶 to keep your spirits up ‼️
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ellie
Hi Jay & Novi😃 I see you have stayed in Enoshima! It was a raw stormy day and the seascape was very rough 💧. I would have loved to stay there at least once 💪. Kikuyu was like a fusion of avant-garde rainfall and good old sake 🧐.
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Senkin初槽原酒生酒中取り無濾過おりがらみ
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ellie
It's been a while since I've posted ^ ^ I've been sick since the day after I last posted, and I haven't recovered from a cold for a month 😓I've never had one that lasted this long. My tonsils got infected, I had a fungus in my throat, it was really tough 😱. I've been sober for a while and resumed drinking 🥹 for a long time. Well, I opened a bottle of stock from 6 months ago. This is the first Sentori since Kabutomushi. I shook the lees a little and when I opened it, it blew up. It is a pretty intense sake. The taste is not so noticeable due to the strong schwash 🤔It is refreshingly sweet and tasty. The snacks were yakitori, sashimi, chikuzen-ni and boiled spinach. I have hardly had a day off since April😭I will get a compensatory day off next week, so I will be resting my bones in Kamakura🍶♨️
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ma-ki-
Hi ellie, good evening. I'm sorry to hear you've been sick 💧. I too had a fever last week for the first time in several years 😖💦. It sounds like you had a hard day at work and I hope you have a relaxing drinking time next week🍀.
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ellie
Hi ma-ki-😃 Thank you for your concern 😊 The taste of alcohol can change depending on your condition. Next week I will be excited to stay at a nice inn in Kamakura so I will drink some good sake!
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Hi ellie 😃. I didn't think it would be up for a while 🥲It was tough 😫 but if your return sake is Sentori first tank series, you'll be fine👍I'm glad you didn't run rough 😅I hope you're relaxing in Kamakura 👋.
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ポンちゃん
Good morning, ellie 🐥. I'm glad you are able to drink well again 😢I hope you enjoy your delicious drinks in Kamakura and take it easy ✨.
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ellie
Hi Jay & Novi😃. Thank you for your concern 😊. Thanks to you, I've accumulated a lot of alcohol in my fridge 😓. Next week we will enjoy the sake of Kanagawa!
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ellie
Hi Pon 😃 When you're sick, your drinks don't taste so good 😭. I'm looking forward to see what Kanagawa sake I will drink next week!
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