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hoshiakiJunmai Daiginjo🍶Non-filtered raw sake✨Aiyama🌾.
Kagamiyama's 3rd 🎉 sweet and sour freshness ✨citrus 🍊citric acid. Matches with bonito sashimi 👍more flavor. Also good with scallop summer vegetable vinegar 👍This year was a very good year for bonito 😆.
Purchased at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki, drinking at home 20240731 hoshiakiJunmai 🍶Non-filtered raw sake✨Ishikawamon🌾 from Okunoto, Ishikawa Prefecture.
The moment you taste it, it's sweet and spicy with a touch of rice (🌾). Bitter aftertaste. Bitter aftertaste. The melon on the back increases the spiciness when paired with sushi. Match with yamakurage tamari-zuke (pickled wild jellyfish). The texture is very crispy.
After 3 days, red clams with a strong kelp texture. When combined with the sushi, it is less bitter and medicinal than the last time.
Purchased at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki, 20240725, 0728 hoshiakiJunmai Daiginjo🍶Nihonokumi-Nama Sake✨First Drip KISS😘Aiyama🌾.
The second bottling of Kagamiyama, which I had the opportunity to participate in the GW brewing process 🎉 Slightly effervescent, not as explosive as the first one. Sweet and sour Japanese pear type. Refreshingly cucumbery. Goes well with peach cured ham🍑. Mushrooms are also nice 🍄3 days later, cheap Kobe beef 🐂cumquat acidity matches the fat 👍salty and flowing. After another 4 days, it calmed down a bit and the tenderness increased. Marriage with broiled eel 💕.
Purchased at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki Drink at home 20240721, 0724, 0728 hoshiakiJunmai Ginjo 🍶 Once fired sake ✨Touji selected pink label 🩷.
Serve it cold. Sweet and sour with a dry taste. It's refreshing ✨ with a bitter taste like grefleur. Lightly seasoned, light sake that goes well with other light sake.
Purchased at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki 20240706 hoshiakiJunmai Daiginjo🍶 Namaishu ✨Nigori Sake Aiyama🌾.
As the label says, super rough straining, took about 5 minutes to open 😅 managed to open it without it blowing out. Melon🍈 to banana type🍌 area is spicy 🍈 but also throaty. Moromi, rice feeling. But it's refreshing. Mellowness. Lactic acidic tenderness.
This is the first sake that I participated in the brewing of the brewery in May 😆 It's only a little, but there's something special about sake that I was a part of 🎉.
Purchased at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki, drinking at home 20240627 まつちよHi hoshiaki☁
This nigori looks delicious 😋.
It's nice to be able to participate in the sake making process😊. hoshiakiThank you for your comment, Matsuchiyo😊I was invited to participate via a liquor store. I could understand the difficulty of sake brewing by actually seeing and working with the sake. The sake we brewed will be enjoyed 4 times with different brewing times. hoshiakiJunmai Ginjo🍶Unfiltered Nama Sake✨
Tasted and purchased at the Iida Sake Shop Gokuraku Kai.
Dark and crisp. Strong ginjo aroma. A little harshness is softened when paired with melon and firefly squid. Also good with homemade beef bowl head.
Purchased at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki, drink at home 20240327 hoshiakiSpecial Junmai Nama Nama Sake🍶Limited Edition Extra Edition✨
Purchased after tasting it at a Gokuraku party at Iida Sake Brewery.
Slightly sweet per taste, spiciness of alcohol. Strong flavor. Goes well with squid mentshi. It is good with oysters (🦪) to increase the sweetness 👍. The taste of rice is clear.
Purchased at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki, drink at home 20240324 hoshiakiJunmai nao kumikomi unfiltered nama sake 🍶Bessen ✨Iida Sake Shop Special 🎉.
I tasted it at a Gokurakukai and bought it because I thought it was easy to match with food. First of all, it's a dry schwarz ✨ with a kinky cold ❄️. A little harsh 😳. Warm it up a little and drink it cold. The harshness eases. Sourness. Spiciness. Shuwa. Kire. Sweetness and umami. Good for a mid-meal drink at this temperature👍
Purchased at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki, drink at home 20240319 hoshiakiIida Sake Brewery - Spring Session 🌸
The last 5th brewery is Ippongi in Fukui!
Junmai Ginjo Nama Sake 🍶 Denshin Haru🌸 Gentle and sweet. But it is also dry and sharp.
Junmai Unrefined Nama Sake ✨ Haruno Junmai Sake Arabashiri 😆 A little grassy, dry. A little grassy, dry, and stimulating.
Daiginjo Kotonaegushi ✨ Fine, clean, no corners, tasty but expensive 😅 Saka Homare 🌾 Junmai
Junmai 🍶 Denshin Ina. Light, warm it up. It's light and you can enjoy it warmed up.
Dry Junmai 🍶 Solid, but not harsh. The brewer says it can be served hiya for crab or heated for mackerel 🤔 Heated to about 45 degrees Celsius? Soft, acidity and spiciness are good👍.
Iida Sake Brewery - Spring Party 🌸@Shiki 20240316 hoshiakiIida Sake Brewery - Spring Session 🌸
The 4th brewery is Drunken Whale from Kochi🐋.
Junmai Ginjyo Ginrei Dry sharpness ✨So easy to drink, pleasant acidity. Clear taste 😆.
Junmai Daiginjo Tora 🐯 Sweet, gentle ☺️. Light and soft.
Junmai Daiginjo Zo 🐘 Dry, sharp, like it's ready to be tasted 😅I heard it's read as Sho, not Zo 🤔.
Junmai Ginjo Takaiiku 54 Shinshu Nama Sake Tangy, a little grassy.
Junmai Daiginjo Nama Sake Hanagoromo light nigori, koji flavor, dry umami. It is a little bit dry and umami.
Tired of drinking sake, I had a smoke with local Coed beer 😅.
Iida Sake Shop 🌸 Spring party at Shiki 20240316 hoshiakiIida Sake Brewery - Spring Party 🌸
The third brewery was Sawanoi in Tokyo 🍶.
Junmai Honjishu 🍶 the sake 😅 suitable for heating up. It may be a little harsh to drink cold.
Junmai Ginjo Namazukuri ✨ Tokyo Kurarayakko The acidity is typical of the Namazukuri style. Refreshingly dry.
Junmai Ginjo Unfiltered Nama Genzake ✨Special Limited Edition ✨Slim, crisp and refreshing ✨Good to sip in the hot summer 😆Bought this one this time.
This one is a ginjo Nakakumi-nama 🍶 tastes similar to the unfiltered version. Beautiful dry taste,
Junmai Daiginjo, full of flavor, not too floral. Pleasantly dry. ☺️
We were told about a garden with a sake brewery where we can enjoy a light meal. I would like to visit there someday as it looks like a fun place with a nice view 😆.
Iida Sake Brewery Gokuraku Kai, Spring Session🌸@Shiki 20240316 hoshiakiIida Sake Brewery - Spring Session 🌸
The second brewery was Akita's Fukukomachi🍶.
The first cup was Junmai Ginjo Nama Sake 🍶 Miso Nishiki 🌾 It was crisp and dry. When you take your time with it, you can taste the sweetness of the rice honey and the deep flavor.
The second cup is Junmai Ginjo Shinshu Nama Sake🍶Sake Komachi🌾 moderate acidity✨dry, gentle taste ☺️
The third glass is aromatic dry junmai🍶 less assertive and light. A little grassy, soft around the edges, good as a daily sake👍.
The 4th glass was a special junmai sake 🍶 extra 🎉I bought this one and drank it at home, I'll post it later 😅
Gokurakukai Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki 20240316 hoshiakiIida Sake Brewery Gokurakukai Spring Session🌸
Participated in the tasting of 5 sake breweries. First up was Kagamiyama from Saitama 🍶.
Kagamiyama×Iida Sake Shop collaboration sake😆 Junmai Daiginjo Unfiltered Nama ✨Lemon🍋, Citric Acid, Greffle. It was a sour and refreshing sake.
It's a limited edition sake for overseas 🍶I heard they are serving it in Hong Kong. Daiginjo Nama Sake ✨Dense and umami. It also has a strong sweetness. I wonder if this kind of thing is popular in Hong Kong 🤔.
Omachi🌾Special Junmai Unfiltered Nama Sake✨ Well balanced and pleasant to drink. You can also feel the bubbles.
Junmai Super Limited Shiboritate✨ Slightly refreshing, dry, acidic. It's probably the easiest to pair with a meal.
Iida Sake Shop, Gokuraku Kai @ Shiki 20240316 hoshiakiSpecial Junmai🍶 Yamagata Prefecture Izumiwa no Sato🌾.
Not flashy, but a little dry, sharp and full-bodied. Slowly. Take your time. Goes great with grilled salmon from Murakami, Niigata.
A week later, serve with pork koji. Warmed up at ♨️ 55 degrees, it is still hard. 65 degrees will open it up. It is easy to drink and the umami spreads. The miscellaneous taste disappears, and the rice flavor is enhanced.
Purchased at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki. hoshiakiJunmai Ginjo🍶Aged Sake✨Snow❄️☃️
Aged sake, light yellow in color. Cold sake, matured, Daruma Masamune-like. Not heavy, warmed to 60 degrees. Soft around the edges. Mellow. ☺️ It's still a sake for warming up. I served it with scallop sashimi sent from my relatives in Hokkaido 😋The scallops were huge and delicious💕.
Purchased at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki. hoshiakiJunmai Ginjo🍶Bonwu✨
It's a pure rice ginjo 😅 mirin. The aroma is like an old sake like Daruma Masamune. When you drink it, it is matured but also refreshing. Sourness and spiciness. Hot sake (60 degrees). Mellow aroma. Gentle flavor. My wife says it has a spicy taste 😆 Very good match with bonito tataki👍. I think the sake might be too much for Hiramasa 🤔.
I finally bought a heating device "Kanmakase" supervised by Shinkame 😆 Very convenient. It's great to adjust the temperature and let it warm up slowly. ❗️
Buy at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki Drink at home 20231118 hoshiakiLeave quite a few days. It's like Daruma Masamune 😅 ripe ripe. It's a great way to mash up the flavor of sake-steamed oysters 🦪.
Drinking at home 20231216 hoshiakiJunmai Unfiltered Nama Sake🍶Olive Yeast🫒Sanuki Yomai🌾 from Kagawa Prefecture.
Sweet and sour dry ✨. White wine. Refreshing but also umami. Certainly muscat. The olive taste is 🫒a little bit hard to tell😅As the temperature rises, the acidity increases and the lactic acidity makes it light on the palate. Goes well with pork shabu-shabu and Japanese parsley pot 😋.
Purchased at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki 20231026 hoshiakiJunmai Ginjo Nama 🍶Land of Water✨Amanoado in Summer🌾Miyama Nishiki from Akita Prefecture
A bit of cemedine, umami and spiciness. Uryu type 🍈. It is delicious with Aomori's specialty, kipper cut into pieces 🐟 and grated radish. Also good with cucumber and cured ham 😋.
Buy at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki and drink at home 20230730 hoshiakiJunmai Ginjo Unfiltered Nama Sake🍶.
A little yellow. Mellow ☺️. As the name suggests, it's round 😅. A little schwar✨. Sweet and fruity. Between melon and pear 🍈. Matches well with thick fried tofu👍When paired with shime saba (mackerel), it's tangy and spicy. The smell does not spread and it is delicious. Lactic acidic. So it's from the sake brewery of Nisato🐇🤔.
Purchased at Iida Sake Shop @ Shiki, drinking at home 20230721 hoshiakiJunmai Daiginjo🍶Nihonokumi-Namazake✨First Drip Kiss💋Aiyama🌾.
Produced by 5 different liquor stores in Saitama ✨I was also shown a video of the direct pumping. I wish I had the chance to attend 😆.
Aroma of citrus 🍊. Sour Mucho 😆 lemonade 🍋 helps to shed the oil. With stuffed bell peppers 🫑. Looks, slightly mountain yellow. Spicy and bitter when combined with ketchup sauce. Highly acidic, winey.
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