For the record
At a tavern in Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture
One of the sake tasting set
Surprisingly refreshing, with a slightly bitter aftertaste?
Fukushima Souvenir, Vol. 0 (I forgot)!
It is Hiroki Sake Brewery. Hiroki aims to make the ultimate food sake that goes well with food.
It has no quirks and seems to go well with food, but sorry 🙏 for me, drinkability + bitterness = bitterness and I'm a bit uncomfortable with it.
I'll put it down and hope the flavor settles down ✨.
For the record. I told my first liquor store that I like hiyaoroshi, and they recommended this 2 degree summer oversummer.
It was a little yellowish sake, but not to the level of kijoshu, and I felt a little whiskey-like aji 🥃.
I received this from a senior colleague of mine. This is my first time drinking it at home. The first attack is the aroma 🍇. It has a strong acidity and a grape-like aroma, just like a summer sake. My partner seems to like it very much😍.
I'll buy some myself next summer 🥰.
It arrived today! A lottery sale winner.
I'm sure I would have won if I had applied for it though.
Combined with the shipping costs, this sake is high-class😅.
I'll write my impression after I drink it ⸜(* ॑기ˆ* )⋆*☆☆.
Sunday, 7/14, took 15 minutes to open the bottle. Yup, it took 15 minutes to open. Tasty. But if you've had rice and agave before, you might expect it. But wait a minute. This aroma, thirst, and fragrance at a rice polishing ratio of 90. It's not good.
It is not sake. It is a liqueur.
It is a trophy of our trip to Fukushima.
I thought it might restore my partner's good mood, who was not very happy about the large amount of sake we bought on our trip. I had a ulterior motive, but it was the right decision.
It is a drinkable yogurt for adults.
You can enjoy it as if it were an after-dinner dessert 🥰.
My partner also said, "This is delicious. Maybe it would be good with soda. 💕︎".
I'll try it with soda tomorrow✋.
It was a successful strategy.
Long time no post. I've been drinking, but I've been drinking less and I can't seem to empty the bottle 😭
And, in the recent boom of my doburoku, here is this doburoku. This is my first time.
It's my first time. The top clear liquid is delicious. It has a green apple-like aroma💜 and the cloudy part is more drinkable and has a stronger sake flavor, making it a great sake.
Gone in 2 days.
Travel souvenir #2. Sasasamune.
I went all the way to Fukushima Prefecture to buy this sake!
And I wanted to buy Junmai sake, but unfortunately it was sold out, so here is Yamadanishiki Junmai Ginjo. Yes, no doubt about it. It has a slightly sweet aroma from start to finish, and goes well with food as it is 😋.
But if I wanted, I felt it could have a little more character.
I made roast beef with Shin Shin Shin of Fukaya beef from Fukaya City, which is getting a lot of attention for Eiichi Shibusawa, and for the sauce, I sliced raw garlic and used oil to make it crispy only around the slices, then heated the remaining oil in the pan with a little dashi soy sauce and served it with the entree!
For a change of flavor, I also served it with my favorite wasabi (๑♡♡๑♡♡).
The back is a piece of bonito that I bought and lightly grilled around the edges to make it look like tataki, and a store-bought egg and tofu with edamame (soybeans).
This is the first bottle of sake I purchased on my trip to Fukushima.
I was actually going to go with a different one, but couldn't make it to this one, which is low-polished and has oji in it (lol).
Sour? No, refreshing! Low-polished rice has a hint of rice bran in it, which makes it relatively sour, but this one is not.
Amazing quality! It's so refreshing, yet I can feel the sweetness of the rice. Even sweeter when you add the oli 😊✨.
Delicious ♥️This is my favorite taste ♥️I hope everyone will try it 🥰!
I am here in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture.
Before that, I went to a liquor store in Kitakata city ✨.
I was so excited! I can't believe how much they have here 😆😆😆😆.
I bought 11 bottles of sake, big and small, over 20,000 yen 💦.
So, we went to a butcher shop in Aizuwakamatsu where we had reservations to buy assorted horse sashimi, and then moved on to the onsen inn.
I ate the assorted horse sashimi with miso garlic sauce dipped in soy sauce. No doubt about it!
And the sake tasted freshly opened, tangy, and refreshing. I almost finished the bottle with only a little left of the four-pack ✋.
Good morning, Mr. Manachy. That's right. It's Gonoi-san's original, isn't it? I should have bought more if this is the case. I bought a few bottles of Tenmei from the same Akebono brewery, and some Izumikawa from Hiroki Shuzo.
Izumibashi after a long time. I was recommended this sake by a junior colleague of mine who can be called my sake master when I was just starting to learn about sake (about 10 years ago?). I was recommended this sake by a junior colleague of mine who I can call my sake master.
At that time, it was an autumn dragonfly, but this time it's a cherry blossom dragonfly🌸.
I'm not sure if it's a cherry blossom dragonfly or not. It's not raw, so it's easy to drink. (Holy crap, it's good!
This summer, I might buy some summer yago for the first time in a while 🤔.
Tohoku Izumi, the rice is Sake Mirai, this is my first time to buy it!
It tasted more like bitterness when I opened it than I had imagined. Now it's sleeping in the fridge, aiming to change the taste. ♥️
I'll drink it this weekend.
The last of the day, we finish with a sweet doburoku.
Eighteen glasses, that should get you drunk.
This one is from the same brewery as the first one, Happy Taro Brewery in Shiga Prefecture.
It's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good!
Seventeenth drink. I was too drunk to remember.
Kamikimoto red label Omachi Nakadori Junmai Ginjo.
It was a well-made sake, and I wanted to drink it with a meal.
It wasn't the one to drink at the end of the day.
The 16th drink. Ichinozo.
How many years has it been since I drank Ichinozo?
I have drunk sparkling and Himezen before, though.
This one was a sweet, dark one, aged at a high temperature. However, it was not too sweet and not too bitter, and I liked it the best among the three in the picture.
And there is more to post about all you can drink, but this one I drank yesterday was so good I had to post it immediately✋.
It was light and easy to drink for a Shinkame, and since it was fizzy, I drank more and more of it.
It was a champagne that can be matched with food 🍾.
My partner also enjoyed drinking it.
(It's easy to drink if you mix in the oli.
Mixing the oli makes it more drinkable, like a refreshing amazake 👍Good!
I served it with a side dish of tuna pieces dressed with wasabi and soy sauce and wrapped in nori (seaweed)!