Drinking with friends in Umeda🍶.
We started with Kenkunichi.
It was a light and dry sake that I never get tired of drinking and is typical of Miyagi sake. 🙆♂️
It goes well with fish dishes!
The last one was Kurehaaru, warmed up.
I've had it cold, but the grain sweetness was enhanced and tasted better when it was warmed up 😋.
Was it better heated for me? Maybe.
The third glass was Kikuhime nigori.
Easy to drink like makgeolli with the sweet and delicious taste of rice 🍶.
It is recommended for beginners and is very stable!
Next up was a warmed cup of luscious sweet sake from Yoro, Gifu Prefecture.
A mild and moderately tasty cup. 🙆♂️
It was the perfect sake for nabe (hot pot) and fish dishes! It was delicious 😆.
At a neighborhood izakaya 🏮.
The first drink was Toyo Bijin.
A cup of beautiful, fruity sweetness unique to Toyo Bijin or shining. 🙆♂️
I felt again that this is my favorite brand 😊.
I purchased this bottle for warming sake.
When I drank it hot, I felt the umami and astringency of the rice pleasantly and enjoyed it. 🙆♂️
I heard on YouTube that Mukai Tenju from the same brewery is very tasty when heated, so I would like to try that next time!
After work.
Sake from a brewery in Kyotango that makes sake only from edible rice.
It is a sweet white wine-like sake with a strength of 15-16 degrees, but I thought it would be a good sake for beginners. 🙆♂️
Heated sake for drinking at home.
A bottle that has a matured feel and a strong rice flavor, but also has a calmness. 🙆♂️
As the name suggests, it is a sake that makes you feel relaxed when you drink it 🍶.
Last 500 check-ins! 🎊
ALPHA2 from Wind Forest.
It was a delicious cup with a gentle sweetness and the elegance of a white wine 😆.
The rice polishing ratio is 22%.
It's a very pricey sake 🤣.
Congratulations to Tattsu for 500 check-ins✅㊗️🎉🎉🎉!
Polishing ratio 22%❗️😳
It's a premium sake 🍶 worthy of the Kiri number and I could tell from your review that it was delicious 😆.
Congratulations to Tattsu for 500 check-ins㊗️🎊🎉🎊㊗️
Luxurious ALPHA2, worthy of Kiri number ☺️
ALPHA series ranges from 22% to 100% polished rice 😊.
Enjoy your drunken sake life more and more😄🍶.
Congratulations to Tattsu-san for 500 check-ins㊗️🎊Congrats on the New Year, which will be a kick-ass year in the windy forest eh? I'm sure we will encounter many delicious drinks this year, and the check-in digits may change in no time 🤣.
Congratulations on your 500th check-in 🎉🎊🎊Kazenomori no Mori, a highly milled sake, is a great way to get momentum for this year's sake activities 😊I suddenly want to drink Kaze no Mori, it's amazing how consistently delicious it tastes no matter when I drink it 😋.
Thank you, Nemuchi 😊.
Kaze no Mori was the first sake I fell in love with, and I've had many different Kaze no Mori's, but this time I'm deeply moved to celebrate the 500th check-in with it 😌.
The third cup is Eiheiji Hakuryu from Fukui.
It is a simple sake that is light, mild and easy to drink, but you will never get tired of drinking it. 🙆♂️
It went well with the shime saba (mackerel) that I served with the entrée.
Next is Choryu's Shikisaki.
It is a high level sake with a rich, full-bodied taste, like a dry white wine with a smooth texture 🍶.
Chihshihi-hizoku" seems to be a word that describes the time when the earth begins to freeze.
Kaku-uchi at Asano Sake Shop.
First up was the Amabuki, which I had been curious about for a while.
It is not as strawberry-like as I expected, but the sweet and sour taste of strawberries spreads slightly.
It was quite delicious. 🙆♂️
At a home drinking.
I was curious about Tanaka Rokugo's raw sake.
A bottle with a slightly sweet fruity mouthfeel and a rush of umami and sharpness: 🙆♂️
It was delicious!
The second glass was Midorikawa, which I drank for the first time.
It's a light and dry sake with a delicious rice flavor, just like a Niigata sake 🍶 lol!
I have a feeling it would be delicious warmed up 🤔.
With oyster dishes 🦪.
A delicious cup of fruity, sweet and savory.
It's been a long time since I've had a glass of Tobiroki, but it's still at a high level 👏👏👏.
After work, at a standing bar in the neighborhood.
It was a local sake from Shirakawa, Fukushima.
It was a nigori sake with a nice crispness and a good gasiness and umami taste. 🙆♂️
Fukushima's sake is always high quality!
Purchased at a liquor store.
It was a sweet, gentle, fresh and easy to drink sake with a chili and a slight fizzy taste. 🙆♂️
The label is nice too: ❄️
The first bottle of the New Year is this sake 🍶.
I ran out of sake for New Year's and tried to buy some, but all the supermarkets were closed, so I bought this bottle at a convenience store.
It was a delicious light sake with a hint of rice flavor. 🙆♂️
And the last sake of 2024 was Akizuka, which was purchased for heating sake.
It was purchased on recommendation from the sake store.
When heated up, it has a punchy taste with the rice flavor spreading through it, and after a while, at room temperature, it has a salty taste like dashi soup stock 😳.
I don't often buy this type of sake so it's fresh 🤣.