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The first sake of the New Year is Kikumori from the local Kiuchi Sake Brewery.
Wishing you a happy drinking year.
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Fuji Taikan's first shibori with sashimi of sea bream and kakiage of plum and natto (fermented soybeans).
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On a recent ride on the JR East Mito Branch's local sake train, I was given a commemorative bottle of Kirizukuba from Tsukuba City's Urasato Shuzo brewery as a gift for the ride.
The commemorative label on the event train is delightful.
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The other day, when I rode the JR East Mito Branch's local sake train, I was given a sake that I won in a drawing.
They bottled it the day before.
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I will have some sake that I bought at a recent event at a sake brewery I visited.
It is a limited edition sake commemorating the 150th anniversary of Matsumori's founding.
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Gohan-date" is a sake we recently received at the Gohan Festival held at Okabe Sake Brewery in Hitachiota City, Ibaraki Prefecture.
This sake was brewed with the participation of local people from the rice production stage. It was delicious.
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A new sake from my favorite sake brewery, Isokura Sake Brewery in Kasama. We will have a precious sake as it is a test brew!
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The best thing to drink at the Mito Festival is local sake, Ippin. If you bring a square of sake, you can drink it for a replacement price of a whopping 300 yen!
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Tsuki no I Summer Festival at Tsuki no I Sake Brewery in Oarai.
A 500ml bottle of Junmai Ginjo Nama-shu, directly pumped from the thermal tank, was priced at 1000 yen!
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A little while ago, I received a bottle of Niigata sake, Hakkaisan's "Uonuma de sakurai".
I will drink it gratefully.
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I bought a bottle of Hana-no-i special junmai sake, labeled "Thieving Cat," at Nishioka Honten in Makabe, which I stopped by on my way to the Tsukuba Rin-Rin Road on a rainy day the other day.
I have had this sake before, but there is something different about sake bought at a sake brewery.
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I found it in a store I usually go to and it looked good, so I tried it.
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A little while ago, I received a gift of "Shichiken", a Japanese sake from Yamanashi.
When I think of Yamanashi, wine and whiskey come to mind, but of course there is also sake. It is cold today, so I will drink it heated.
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As with the previous item, I received this Niigata sake as a gift from a friend who had been to Niigata.
This is the famous Kozen Josui. The Minatoya Tosuke I drank earlier was also from the Shirataki Sake Brewery in Yuzawa.
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A little while ago, I will have some Niigata sake that I received as a gift from a friend who visited Niigata. I was also given this sake as a souvenir, but I didn't know there was such a thing as sake KITKAT.
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We will be serving a long-aged sake from Nishioka Honten "Hana-no-i" in Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki Prefecture, which we supported through crowdfunding, with the recommended lukewarm temperature.
I heard that the Makabe area where the sake brewery is located still has some old streets, and I would like to visit there someday.
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A little while ago, I received this sake as a gift.
It was a sake called Omon from Niigata. It was from Shinobata City, Niigata Prefecture.
It is cold today, so I will drink it heated.
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I bought this sake last week when I took the JR local sake train to Yuki.
I bought Takeyuki Shiboritate, which I was allowed to sample on the train, at a brewery in Yuki City.
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The first time I went to Nonbei Yokocho in Shibuya, the restaurant I entered had Aizu Eikawa. I was glad to drink it after a long time.
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Yesterday, at a tavern I usually go to, I ordered a sake that I was told was a cat label.
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