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Gakki Masamuneoff-dry本醸造原酒中取り無濾過

Ookidaikichi Honten Fukushima

9/15/2025, 8:53:14 PM

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Masamune Instrument Masamune This off-dry is the first time I drink this off-dry. off-dry means slightly dry, between sweet and dry 🤔.... When I drink it, I feel sweetness. I feel a slight chilli on my tongue. It's unfiltered and unpasteurized, but it's still lit, right? But it's still freshness? Since I drank it last Tuesday, I went on a business trip and drank it outside. It seems to have mellowed, the freshness has faded, but the sweetness remains. It doesn't feel very dry-dry, but I guess that's the "slightly dry" part 🤨. But as I drink it, there is a little sourness in the soft sweetness, and the dryness is gradually coming out? It's kind of like off-dry 🥳. It's pretty good 😋. It seems that saury is well harvested this year. We also have saury 🐟🐟.

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Dassai純米大吟醸45

Asahi Shuzo Yamaguchi

9/13/2025, 11:05:41 PM

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Yesterday was the annual event, tennis 🎾 ~ hot spring ♨️ ~ drinking 🍻 with my high school classmates in Shonandai. We went to the same restaurant we went to once before. After 3 beers at Onsen and this restaurant, it was time to move on to sake! Because we took her to Noge 😭, she stopped drinking 😭 asked me "Is Otter delicious?" I asked her if she wanted to try some. So we decided to try some Otter Sake. Soft sweetness Slightly lingering on the tongue A little sourness Clear, gentle and fruity Delicious, but something a little off? I don't care though... 😉. I don't remember this place serving a single-batch bottle like this. The next Hakkaisan was also served in a single-bottle! This one is a bit more sour. Izumibashi, Koshinoketora and others were made in tokkuri, I gave up on the picture😅. But we ordered 1 sake bottle at a time several times, and finished yesterday happily! Today, I went to Shonandai again after 8am, this time to meet my college friend and play tennis with his regular tennis team. Maybe I should have stayed the night instead of making the 2 hour round trip 🤣.

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Kozuki純吟中汲み槽場直取り生純米吟醸生酒

Daishinshu Shuzo Nagano

9/8/2025, 9:48:41 PM

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With friends in Chigasaki (5) Yesterday, I went to Chigasaki with a friend from college for sake. One last drink, one I've never had before! Kouzuki A rare brand made by a sake brewery in Taishinshu. Soft and sweet! Delicious 😋. Beautiful sake! Anyway, this friend of mine was the one I hung out with the most when we were in college. But I never imagined that in our old age, we would be drinking sake together like this 🍶🥳. We decided to play tennis the following Sunday in Chigasaki 🎾 We had only met occasionally before, but it was like going back to the old days all at once🥰.

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ジェイ&ノビィ

Good morning, Takashi 😃. I'm the type of person who almost never contact people myself 😅 but the other day Nobby told me to contact him. I'll try to get in touch with you after seeing your fun post!

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Takashi

Good morning, Jay & Nobby 😊. Thanks for contacting us. I'm glad to hear from you 😄. But how do you guys keep in touch?

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Kachikoma純米

Kiyoto Shuzojo Toyama

9/8/2025, 9:43:34 PM

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With friends in Chigasaki (4) Next, another first-time drink that I've been curious about! Katsukoma I wonder if we don't come across it very often because of its small production. Compared to Shinshu Kame-ling and Arashidou, this is the least sweet of the two. It's very clear and refreshing. It is also delicious. This store has quite a lot of Sake. The owner said he is doing his best to stock up. They also have some Sake from December onwards 🤩.

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ma-ki-

Good morning, Takashi! It's been a while since we've met, but your friend has become a sake lover, so it was a fun party 😋. The lineup is also good ⤴️ I had Katsuma on a trip to Toyama and it's delicious 🤗.

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Takashi

Good morning, ma-ki-😊. It was a development I hadn't really imagined 🤣I didn't intend to drink that much yesterday. I like the words on the label of Kachikoma, it's very hearty 🥰.

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嵐童　雄町純米吟醸

Sugiisamiwarabioka Shuzojo Yamagata

9/8/2025, 9:40:36 PM

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With friends in Chigasaki (3) Next, the one you've never had or seen before Rando! I checked it out later, and it looks like Sugiyuu's brewery. Omachi sake. A little strong? Sweetness is gentle. Fruity. Do you feel the sense of rice? Oh shoot, I ate half of the nodoguro before I could take a picture 😂.

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Shinshu Kirei山恵錦純米吟醸

Okazaki Shuzo Nagano

9/8/2025, 9:37:11 PM

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With friends in Chigasaki (2) We moved to a restaurant my friend knows. I met my friend a year ago, but we didn't talk about sake so much at that time (it was an Italian restaurant at that time 🤣). My friend had a glass of Jigokin or Shinshu Kameiring at this restaurant about a year ago, which was so good that he started drinking Sake! So, why not? Shinshu Kameiring! Yes, it's clear, sweet, and delicious 😋! Beautiful sake! A definite one! But, when I drank it before, it was a little fresher, wasn't it? Well, it's delicious, that's for sure 🥳.

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Tensei風露特別本醸造

Kumazawa Shuzo Kanagawa

9/8/2025, 9:34:41 PM

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With a friend in Chigasaki Due to work-related reasons, I contacted a friend who was a very good friend of mine in college to learn some things from him, and we decided to meet in Chigasaki. We talked about work and a little bit of sake. Tensei in Chigasaki, my hometown. Gentle and soft Sukkiri. When I drank it before, I thought it was a bit more dry, Well, I can't rely on my own tongue 🤣. My friend was not a big sake drinker, much less a sake drinker! But, she was like, "I've been enjoying sake a lot lately, "Sake is so good these days!" 🤣. So we went to a place where my friend sometimes goes to get a variety of Sake 😆. PS. Mr. Tokumitsu was there, he's from my hometown!

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ひなはなママ

Good morning, Takashi 😃. Mr. Tokumitsu! I see you are in Chigasaki ☺️ must be a great place for such a celebrity to come ✨The sake lineup is perfect and the nodoguro is amazing 🤤.

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Takashi

Good morning, HinaHanaMama 😊. Mr. Tokumitsu, for a moment I thought, "May I take your picture?" I thought "can I have a picture?" but decided not to 😖I think you and your husband came here together. But the restaurant was not that upscale 😘.

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Senkin線香花火原酒無濾過

せんきん Tochigi

9/7/2025, 9:04:04 PM

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Sentori for the first time in a long time, attracted by the beautiful label 😆 Sparkler, my first drink 🎆. I thought it would be during August because of fireworks, but this is the right time! It's still hot, so OK 😝. The name evokes the fleeting nature of the end. It says on the back "Do you have any unfinished business in the summer?", I have a lot 😝 Maybe. First of all, I still feel the acidity. At first, I thought it would be very sour, but it's a gentle kind of sourness? It's soft. But on the second day, the sourness became even more pronounced? Is this taste unique? Sparklers at the end of summer, a slightly sour summer memory, I mean 🤣🤣thanks for the treat 😋. Refreshingly sour, crisp and refreshing in the mouth! I saw online that it is an assemblage of Modern Sentori Mukashi and Classic Sentori Mukashi (I've never had either of them)! （I've never had either of them 🤣)

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ma-ki-

Good morning, Takashi! Senkou's sparkler label is beautiful 🎇. The message on the back is also very cool 😁✨✨. I haven't had any SENKOU for a long time, so I'm thinking about drinking something by the end of the year 😋.

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ひなはなママ

Good morning, Takashi 😃. Did you go to the sparkler 🤩? It's a hot topic at Sake no Wa too! Sentori is very popular 😆I can't drink much Sentori because it's hard to find 😭Sentori has a great taste in labels 👍.

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Takashi

Good morning, ma-ki-😊. I wasn't looking for this one either, but I saw this label at the store 🤩 and bought it 😍I hadn't had it in over a year either? It was 😆 I hope you will too, ma-ki-!

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Takashi

Good morning, HinaHanaMama 😊. Sparklers, pretty much everyone is drinking at Sake no Wa too. Seeing that, the "back" orikagami looks good too 😍next year! What a great idea 🥳 I'm lucky my house is in a local liquor store!

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ジェイ&ノビィ

Good evening, Takashi 😃. I don't even remember what I did in the spring if that's what you mean by "unfinished business" in the summer 😅. I learned the word assemblage when I drank a sparkler 🎇 and never drank it again 😆.

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Takashi

Good morning, Jay & Nobby 😊. If you mean you don't remember, then I don't remember what I ate yesterday either 🤣🤣 dangerous! Sparklers, I thought I might take the back too next year 😘.

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わしが國特別純米

Yamawa Shuzoten Miyagi

9/3/2025, 9:27:25 AM

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Izakaya Shinkansen Tohoku This time, 2 days business trip to Sendai Yesterday we went for a drink, but it wasn't sake 😭 So it's different from my usual trip from Yamaguchi (lol) and much shorter time, but I started Izakaya Shinkansen! 🚄. Sake, I got from my country, a liquor store near the station! I didn't recognize it, of course I've never had it before! But later I found out it's a Yamawa 🤨. It's a bit dark. Modern, isn't it? Sake! I like the way it feels. At room temperature, with a hint of rice. I like it this way, too. I like it a lot. Today's menu Ginga Kogen Beer String Beer Flounder and eggplant with grated radish Anago (conger eel) One person at a table for three (lucky me!). Good for a drink! But I think they stocked a little low. Utsunomiya, closing store 🤣.

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ひなはなママ

Good evening, Takashi😄. Thanks for your business trip 🙇‍♀️ Izakaya Shinkansen 🚅, there is a gap between tables today 😆 this will close soon 😅I wish Shinkansen had a touch panel to order 🤔.

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Takashi

Good evening, HinaHanaMama 😊. In Yamaguchi, it's a 4 hour course, today it was only 1.5 hours, so I decided to keep it low 😆. If there was a touch panel, it would be a big problem 🍶🍶🍶😱.

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ma-ki-

Good evening, Takashi! Thanks for your business trip 🚅. Sorry to hear you didn't drink any local sake while out drinking 💦. I haven't tried Yamawa yet 😲. I hope you had a good time with beer and sake at Izakaya Shinkansen 🚅🍶🍶 early finish 😋.

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Takashi

Good morning, ma-ki-San 😊. I really want to have a lot of drinks in Sendai, but since I'm there for work, it's not possible 😭. I'm going to have a small moment 🍶 on the Shinkansen 🥳.

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ポンちゃん

Thanks for the business trip, Takashi 😊. The non-modern sake looks delicious with the conger eel sushi 😻And it's great that there is no one next door! Maybe that's what made the drinks go further 😆.

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Takashi

Hi Pon 😊 I like these drinks a lot (I like anything alcoholic 🤣) and I like conger eel 😋. The nice thing about the Tohoku Shinkansen Hayabusa is that if you don't have a neighbor in Sendai, you're almost never in Tokyo 😁.

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ジェイ&ノビィ

Good evening, Takashi 😃. Tokaido and Tohoku! Izakaya 🏮 Shinkansen has a wider range 🤗I would have gone to Utsunomiya station for a drink if you had told me 😆.

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Takashi

Good evening, Jay & Nobby😊. Hahahaha🤣If you say that, really, I'll get off at Utsunomiya on the way there! 🤣🤣

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WOM

Hi, Takashi-san! Yamawa from Ginga Kogen Beer! It's the iron plate of Izakaya Tohoku Shinkansen. Looks delicious! To get to J&N's Utsunomiya store, you might want to stock up in Omiya and return.

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Takashi

Good morning, WOM 😊. I thought Sendai to Tokyo would be a short time, but I was able to get there in quite a bit of time 😋, so I went with local sake 🍶, which was delicious 🥳, and I look forward to drinking many different kinds of sake in many different places 🥰.

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AKABU琥珀純米吟醸

赤武酒造 Iwate

8/30/2025, 8:53:59 PM

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It's been so hot every day that I haven't been able to get my hands on any of the fall sake that's still on the shelves, but it's about time 🍁. I mean, I've never had AKABU Amber before. I wanted to drink it and bought it 😁. It's fresh when you drink it! It's fresh! (Not so fresh, but fresh...). And the image of sweetness and acidity is soft? Is it mild for an Akabu sake? Is it because it is an autumn sake? But as you drink it, the sweetness and acidity become stronger and stronger? Maybe it's because it was chilled at first, but as I drank it, it was getting to room temperature? For a so-called "autumn sake" (although I'm not sure if that's a good way to put it), it's gorgeous 🥳. Yeah, this balance of sweetness and sourness is delicious 😋. It's 13 degrees and easy to drink.

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ひなはなママ

Good morning, Takashi 😃 I got Akabu's Autumn Sake, Amber this year because my husband raved about it when he drank it last year ❣️ It's hard to get because it's so popular, but I got it safely 👍It's good that it's sweet and sour and easy to drink 🤤.

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Takashi

Good morning, HinaHanaMama 😊. I drank Amber for the first time and it was delicious 😋 A bit unique? Autumn sake? All Akabu's are delicious though 🤣. Enjoy it with your husband this year too 🥰.

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ichiro18

Hi Takashi 😃 Beautiful color label... I haven't had autumn sake yet (once in the past if I remember), but it seems to be mild 😍 Looks delicious ✨.

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ジェイ&ノビィ

Hi Takashi 😃 Congratulations on your first amber of Akabu ㊗️ 🎉I think it was more to our liking when it was kinky 😙. And "because it's Akabu 🥰" was born when we drank it here: ‼️

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Takashi

Hello ichiro18😊 The weather is still in the middle of summer, but something about the liquor stores is appealing autumn a step or two earlier. I enjoyed the autumn sake, this amber was delicious, but maybe it's already sold out..,

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Takashi

Hi Jay & Nobby 😊 'cause it's redbu' 🤣I like that 🎉. Red Takes are all delicious 🥰. I bought this amber in a flurry when I went to the liquor store and was told it would be available tomorrow. I'm glad I bought it 🥳.

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自然酒純米原酒生酛

Niida Honke Fukushima

8/27/2025, 10:07:11 PM

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A pop up that says "due to product replacement"! They're lowering the price 😳 Is there such a thing 😆. Brewery is a bit 2023, but the production (maybe bottling) is 24.12, so I bought it a little over 6 months ago for a little over 1000 yen (I think) because it's not that old and I like natural liquors 🥳! When I drank it, it was more sour than I expected? I don't feel much sweetness? It's sweet and sour, but the sourness prevails? I remember I drank it 2 times before, it was a very strong sake with strong sweetness and sourness, this time it has sourness but less sweetness? I think so 🤔. Maybe, almost certainly just my imagination 🤣. Maybe it was room temperature before? This time it was cold sake. Well, either way, I think it was a good deal 😝.

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ジェイ&ノビィ

Hi Takashi 😃 I guess it's like an inventory clearance 🧐 but if it's all in your mind, then a thousand yen choi is a good deal 🤗.

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Takashi

Hi Jay & Nobby😊. I think you're probably right. But alcohol isn't usually sold at a discount, I feel like I'm getting a little something out of it 😁. Considering it's been sitting in the fridge for 6 months 🤣.

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Toyobijin女神の雫純米吟醸生酒

Sumikawa Shuzojo Yamaguchi

8/26/2025, 10:17:35 AM

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Izakaya Shinkansen (2) The second glass was Toyo Bijin Goddess Shizuku Namaishu This is a standard 😆 of Izakaya Shinkansen from Yamaguchi. A different pattern for each season! This one is a fresh, fresh sake! Clear, crisp, a little sweet, and mmmm, delicious 😋 Toyo Bijin is a steady seller! At Shin-Kobe, the snacks are over 😭 The last dessert, today, I don't know about you, but "Howari", was sold frozen. When I said I would eat it on the shinkansen on the way home, they put dry ice on it. But shoot! I ate it without taking a picture 🤣. All that was left was to drink up the remaining oriental beauty 😋 A little sweet, but delicious! Today's dish Salad roll Fried horse mackerel wrapped in shiso leaves Duck loin pastrami rice Large rice ball Ume plum and shiso chirimen Burdock Root Tempura Kirin Autumn Flavor Kahori Yamagata Honten Toyo Bijin Sumikawa Sake Brewery Cheese Souffle Today's study There are not many snacks for how hungry I am 🧐. Shin-Osaka, all I have to do now is chibi and sleep 😪, if I can wake up before Shin-Yokohama. Arrived in Kyoto, still a long way to go.

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chika

Oh! I've never seen this before 😍🍶✨✨

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ポンちゃん

Takashi, you must be dreaming right now, thanks for the long distance 😊. This is Sandesi 😳Yamaguchi indeed! There are quite a few snacks, but were there not enough to fill your stomach? Please fill up in Shin-Yokohama 😊.

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ひなはなママ

Good evening, Takashi😄. Thanks for the one-day business trip 🙇‍♀️ and! Shinkansen Izakaya 🏮🚅 is going to be awesome again 😆 Only a drinker can sit next to this one lol. Anyway, take care to Shin-Yokohama: ❣️

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Takashi

Good evening, chika! Seven in Yamaguchi has a stand of seasonal oriental beauties 🥰. I look forward to it every time 🥳.

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Takashi

Hi Pon, good evening😊. Some people don't eat much when they drink a lot, but I eat a lot when I drink too 🤣. This, Toyo Bijin's Sandesi series, is an essential lineup for the Izakaya Shinkansen from Yamaguchi 🥰.

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Takashi

Good evening, HinaHanaMama 😊. I arrived safely in Shin-Yokohama 🥰. The person next to me today was a very serious person, older than me, and we had bento and tea 🤣. But I was able to get there without bothering him (probably) 🤣 I was asleep on the way there.

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Kahori純米吟醸

Yamagata Yamaguchi

8/26/2025, 10:11:34 AM

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Izakaya Shinkansen ①. Izakaya Shinkansen opens! What a one-day business trip to Yamaguchi today! I left early in the morning and spent more time on the Shinkansen than I did working in Yamaguchi😭. In order to make the most of my time, I decided to work on the bullet train on the way to Yamaguchi and have fun and drink on the way back 🤣🤣. Sake as well as beer 🍺 is autumn, so we drink autumn flavors! And the first sake was "Kahori" which I didn't know so I bought it, it seems to be from the Hochozuru brewery! When I drank it, it was sweet, but not too sweet! The alcohol content is 14.5 degrees, but it's a bit firm. Maybe because I drink it at room temperature? The duck I bought at the Co-op is pretty good too 😋 The pepperiness makes it a little hard to pair with sake, but that's beer 😜. But I don't feel the sweetness of the sake anymore, it's not dry, but I feel it lingers on my tongue, and I also feel a little sourness. It's not a slurpy type, but rolls around in your mouth? 🤣 What the hell is that 🤯? I've been on the bullet train quite a bit in Hiroshima and still no neighbors, safe 😝.

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ma-ki-

Good evening, Takashi! Thanks for the one-day business trip🍀. The seat next to you is also perfectly empty and it's a fun izakaya shinkansen 🚄. It's still extremely hot, but the drinks are changing to fall specs 🍁.

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Takashi

Good morning, ma-ki 😊. I'm glad to hear that you are still very careful when people come right next to you. Fall sake is coming in line, but it's still too hot 🥵, so the fall feeling will be a little longer!

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ジェイ&ノビィ

Good evening, Takashi 😃 Ehhh ⁉️ hi to Yamaguchi... day trip 😳 I overspent on drinks by any chance 😆. I'm sure you spend more time on the train 😅I'm already a regular izakaya 🏮 shinkansen 🚄 🤗.

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Takashi

Good evening Jay & Nobby 😊. You are right about overspending on drinks 🤣🤣. In Nagoya area, you can choose not to drink, but in Yamaguchi for 4 hours, I would do Izakaya 🍶 Shinkansen 🥳.

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ゴマぶり

Good evening! Now I recommend a cup of one of the Daimine 😊.

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Takashi

Good evening, Gomaburi 😊. Thank you very much. I will be in Yamaguchi next month, so I will look for the Omine One Cup👍. I think I've seen it somewhere.

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千代緑R-5純米吟醸

奥田酒造店 Akita

8/24/2025, 9:30:07 PM

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Nearby? There is a supermarket nearby that has a good selection of sake for a supermarket. It's a local supermarket (I don't shop there) with a slightly particular selection. I stopped by for a while and bought a bottle of sake. My first drink, Chiyoroku R5. R5 is the name of the yeast. (I really want to compare them, don't I?) Fruity on the palate: ⁉️ Sweetness and sourness come in. A little sweetness? Quite tasty 😋. The label on the back of the bottle says, "A food wine with a sense of gentleness and serenity", but it has a sense of gentleness and softness. It's delicious even if you drink it as it is. I think it's not so called "dry" sake, but rather "spicy" sake. It's not what you would call dry sake, but spicy? It's not what you call dry sake, it's spicy 🤔.

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Re:vive空我原酒生酒無濾過

Hiraroku Jozo Iwate

8/21/2025, 9:12:01 PM

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I've been curious about Re:vive Kuga from Heiroku Brewery, but I've never had it before. I drank "layer" but this is my first time to try "Re:vive". I wanted to make sake, but I don't have a sake license, so I mixed germinated brown rice with sake and made it as a craft sake. (Brown rice is considered rice and is sake, germinated brown rice is craft sake, I didn't know that 🧐) Gentle sweetness, moderate acidity. Fresh and delicious 😋. Not schwashy, but fresh? Beautiful and tasty, but maybe it's my imagination, a bit subtly different from so called sake? (Can't describe it 🤣) Well, it's good because it tastes good 😆. It's the kind of thing that goes down smoothly.

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ジェイ&ノビィ

Good morning, Takashi 😃. I see 🧐That's how it's classified! I'm learning a lot 📚 I'd like to see the subtle differences 📚.

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Takashi

Good morning, Jay & Nobby 😊. This brewery has a lot of background, I read about it when I read up on the internet. I read it on the internet! It's really interesting, isn't it? They go through a lot of trouble to make good sake 🥰.

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Tsuchidaシンツチダ　活性にごり生

Tsuchida Shuzo Gunma

8/18/2025, 8:27:01 PM

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The only raw sake (sort of) at Tsuchida Sake Brewery. When you think of Tsuchida, do you think of a sake that has not been polished or mixed with anything? Image of drinking it as it is at room temperature? 😆 😆 It's not so much polished as it is thick! Rather than that, it's more like a thicker, mellow? Like tasting a strong sweetness and acidity? What is that Tsuchida's fresh sake like? No way it's fresh! And 🤔I bought it out of curiosity😅 I was wondering about the hops one, but decided to go with this one to taste the "fresh" taste! Opened the bottle! I was caught off guard 😣! I was caught off guard 😣. I spilled a lot 💦. Later, I looked on the internet and saw that the cap had no holes in it this year, instead of the perforated cap of last year, so I could feel the gas 😱 I'm screwed! When I drank it, it wasn't the Tsuchida I'm familiar with 🤔. This is nigori sake! And it's a dark type! Fresh and sour taste on the nose. It's not too strong, but it's not too strong either. Somewhat makgeolli-like? The next day, it's a little calmer, even easier to drink 😋. But, do you want a little more of that Tsuchida feeling? Maybe 🤣

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ひなはなママ

Good morning, Takashi 😃. Oh my! You spewed 😅I'd love to try such a vigorous nigori 😅I haven't tried Tsuchida yet ❣️ I'd love to meet a makgeolli-style nigori 🥰.

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Takashi

Good morning, HinaHanaMama 😊. Most of the time I'm so careful that it's a bit of a letdown, but it was quite the opposite 💦🤣 even my wife was surprised 😳. I'm just a little bit interested to see if Tsuchida is to your liking ⁉️ 🥳.

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Echigotsurukame越弌　Vader純米大吟醸

Echigotsurukame Niigata

8/14/2025, 1:49:57 PM

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Echigo-Tsurukame's Koshiichi, which I had never heard of before, but when I found out it was Star Wars, I bought it at a liquor store near there on my way home from a client's office 😆. They had two bottles for sale, Vader (Darth Vader) and A New Hope (Episode 4) and maybe the opposite. I wanted both, but it was tough to carry two bottles home from work, so I went with Vader this time 😬. (Vader is deep, heavy and majestic, while A New Hope is fresh and crisp.) It looks like Darth Vader? I'm not sure 🌑. Pouring it out of the jet black bottle and drinking it, it's surprisingly fresh💦? A little fruity? A little sour, a little acidic? Low alcohol, maybe easy to drink? On the second day, though, it tastes even better 😋 A little more sweet? Tastes good with just the right amount of acidity 😋. I thought it would be more like the dark side 👿? I thought it would be more dark side 👿, but I guess it's still more Anakin? (Sorry if you don't know Star Wars) But still, I want to explore the world of this series a little more 😜. I was wondering if you have any Darth Vader stuff at home? I looked for one, but all I could find was a cap for the airing place on my bike!

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ma-ki-

Good evening, Mr. Takashi! Echigo-Tsurukame, I didn't know they had such a sake 🎵. I was in Osaka wondering why the bicycle air cap from the many goodies 🤣.

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Takashi

Good evening, ma-ki-😊. I also found out about Star Wars drinks ☄️ the other day! My oldest and youngest sons, who are now out of the house, both love Star Wars, so I thought there would be a lot of Vader stuff around, but this was all I could find 🤣.

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ジェイ&ノビィ

Hi Takashi 😃 I couldn't imagine Star Wars from Echigo-Tsurukame 😅It would be nice to drink it while remembering the excitement of my boyhood when I saw Episode 4 😌.

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Takashi

Hi Jay & Nobby😊. It sounds like the toji likes Star Wars 🤣. It sounds like there are so many amazing lineups, it's kind of exciting 🤩.

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Takashi

Sensuke超辛口純米吟醸原酒

泉酒造 Hyogo

8/12/2025, 10:21:19 PM

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Takashi

Noge (4) At the fourth restaurant in Noge, we had our last sake of the day, We decided to finish with a refreshing sake, didn't we? Senzuke Super Dry Sake Naturally, it's refreshing and dry! I can also taste the acidity! This is 17 degrees! Is it crisp and dry? This is the last sake, but it's still late in the evening.., We went to one more Chinese izakaya and had some spicy mapo doufu (hot bean curd) with a choice of spiciness, and then split up! As usual, we had a lot of fun and drank too much 🤣.

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ichiro18

Hi Takashi 😃

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Takashi

Hi ichiro18 😊 Three of my high school classmates and I had a great time at our regular Noge barhago-zake 🤣. You're right, you know Goen 🥳Noge still has a lot to explore 🥰.

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ジェイ&ノビィ

Hi Takashi 😃 If we start at 12:00 and the starter skips 😋 it could easily be a double...or even triple header 🤗. If it's baseball ⚾️ it's a tough fight, but if it's friend drinking it's a fun time ‼️ or the day after it's tough 😆.

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Takashi

Hi Jay & Nobby 😊. Yesterday was another fun time from 12:00 to 6:30pm 🥰. The day can be dangerous, both on foot and in memory, but somehow after a good night's sleep, I feel better the next morning 🥳I woke up early again this morning, biking, playing tennis 🎾.

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ジャイヴ

Good evening, Mr. Takashi 🌛. I've had "Senzuke Super Spicy" before and it tasted so easy that it didn't seem like 17°. ✨️ The "Mapo Tofu" which you can choose the spiciness looks delicious and it would be interesting to have it with "Sensuke" as well 🥰.

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Takashi

Hi Gyve, good evening 😊. Yes, the Senzuke Super Spicy could just barely match the Bean Curd 😆. But I'm pretty sure I made the mapo tofu 5 spicy out of the available up to 20 spicy, but my mouth was still spicy on the train ride home 😝.

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Takashi

花ノ文　夏咲純米吟醸

Nakayu Shuzoten Miyagi

8/12/2025, 10:18:46 PM

Takashi

Noge ③. After Sushi Izakaya, we went to the fourth restaurant of the day after Hormone and Yakitori restaurants. My friend had been there before, but this was my first time. Here we had sake again 🍶. Hananobun, a sake I had never had before. Soft sweetness Slightly sour Slightly sour Summer sake-like With a treacherous nibble named Gouty Carpaccio, which seems bad for uric acid levels 🤣.

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ma-ki-

Takashi, here we go again. Gouty Carpaccio 🤣I had to look twice at the naming sense 🤣 I haven't tried Hananobun yet, but it looks like an easy to drink sake 🤗.

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Takashi

Thank you ma-ki-, thank you here too😊. The gout carpaccio is complete with salmon roe, sea urchin and caviar 🤣. I didn't know about Hananobun either. Maybe because it is a summer sake, it was refreshing. Easing the immorality of gout?

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Takashi

Kid夏ノ疾風純米吟醸

Heiwa Shuzo Wakayama

8/12/2025, 10:15:43 PM

Takashi

Noge (2) The second sake at this restaurant (I've already had beer and sours because it's so hot) is Kido Summer Gale! I drank it at home last year or the year before, but didn't buy it this year. I chose to drink it here because it was just right! Sourness, feel, refreshing 💦. Refreshing! Summery? It goes down easy! The snacks here are cheap and tasty 😋.

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