Over the years the use of yeasts in sake has bugged me. No matter how high end, it seemed as if all sakes were too manipulated by aromatic yeasts, trying... read more →
Brewer Inoue Seikichi gives this a 65% polishing (so only 35% was buffed off), this nears the texture I love in sake: a tiny bit coarse. The brew is from... read more →
The equivalent to natural in the sake world is referred to as pure sake. Now that the European-based Yoigokochi Sake portfolio has found a U.S. distributor, we now have more... read more →
The enthusiastic, blunt and charming Kuniko Mukai is one of the rare female brewers and brewery heads. She works in the seaside town of Ine, in the northern part of... read more →