What is Premium Sake Rice?

Have you ever heard the term “Sake Rice”? Yes, the Sake Rice is a rice that used to brew Japanese Sake. Looking at “Sake Rice” in a Japanese dictionary, it is written as follows. Rice made for sake brewing. Quote: Weblio Dictionary So, how about “Premium Sake Rice”? Have you heard about it? In Japanese,…

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Perfect guide to chose and drink Japanese Sake

Let’s say, you go to a sushi restaurant a little more luxury than usual. There is a menu in front of you. “In this situation, I would like to drink sake” I bet you think so. You see a menu of sake. Something is written in the menu but you don’t know what is written….

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12 traditional steps to make sake

On this page I will explain how to make sake. Because the manufacturing process of sake is long, the explanation will be complicated, but I will write it as easy as possible. According to the Japanese liquor tax law, “Sake is a thing filtered after fermented with Rice, Koji Rice, and Water as a raw…

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What is Sake Alcohol Percentage?

Hey guys. Don’t you think Japanese Sake is a high alcohol percentage drink? That’s not true. Sake doesn’t contain a lot of alcohol like spirits. Maybe, you’ve seen some photos showing that a middle age drunk Japanese businessman (we call them a Salary Man in Japanese) stumbled on a street with full of neon lights….

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Understand SMV(Sake Meter Value) and Acidity

If you are reading this page, you probably are the guy who heard the word “Sake Meter Value (S.M.V.)”, then felt “What is it?” Or you know about “Sake Meter Value”, but you cannot remember what it was specifically. S.M.V is often used as an indicator of dryness of Japanese Sake. However, in fact, it…

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What is Nigori Sake? Great drinks with nutrition

Recently, in Japan, “Sparkling Sake” and “Nigori Sake” are getting popular. The word Nigori means “cloudy” in Japanese. Unlike ordinary sake, Nigori Sake is not transparent, so it got such a name. And Nigori Sake is being said that it contains lots of nutrition. So why is Nigori Sake cloudy? In the first place, what…

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Premium (Junmai, Ginjo, Daiginjo) sake perfect guide

If you are a beginner of sake, even if you hear “Junmai Dai Ginjo” you do not understand what it is. Or maybe you simply think “That sounds pricey”. In Japanese, “Junmai” means “only use pure rice” and “Dai” means “The Highest”. Those are easy words for Japanese. However, “Ginjo” is a difficult word even…

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