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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A drink I had last week.
I ordered Aomori's specialty, scallop with soybean paste, because I wanted to try it too after seeing the person sitting next to me eat it. I ordered Aomori's specialty, scallop with miso shellfish, and Aomori's Toyobai to go with it.
Sake I drank last week.
The owner is from Miyagi Prefecture, so there was sake from the Tohoku region on the shelves, and I hadn't had Tohoku sake in a while.
Another bottle of the second support purchase for #Don't Stop Sake in Noto, a reproduction of an original recipe from Tsuruno Sake Brewery Taniizumi.
Following the New Year's earthquake, now the torrential rain disaster. I can't find the words to say, but I will drink and support!
#Taniizumi
#Tsuruno Sake Brewery
#Yoshida Sake Brewery
The second support purchase for #Don't Stop Sake in Noto has arrived.
This time it is a collaboration sake between Tsuruno Shuzo's Taniizumi and Yoshida Brewery's Yoshida Kura.
It's not easy to visit Noto, but I will drink it and support the cause!
Today is the Mito Komon Festival. Sake goes well with Japanese festivals. Local Mito sake, one of a kind. If you bring your own trout, it's only 300 yen, which is cheap!