February 2016

Welcome to the 138th Issue of America’s sake-centric Newsletter. In this chill issue get ready to plan a trip to SF in October for Sake Day WEEKEND!, help select the color for this year’s Sake Day, find out more inside...

First and foremost – get your pencil out! Now get your calendar out! Now circle Saturday October 1st! Make a bigger circle to include Friday and Sunday as well! Why? Because we are planning Sake Day ’16 to be a...

Calling all sake peeps! We need your help to select the color for our Sake Day’16 logo. Last year we went with the catching and alluring red and black to celebrate Ten Years of Sake Seduction. This year we need...

So are you excited for True Sake’s first sake bar? Sure you are! And we are excited too! After a little bumpy start that saw the wonderful SF Building Department rear it’s ugly head we are moving right along with...

I sort of chuckle every time I hear about some importer or distributor having a “Sake Summit, because I tried to organize a real sake summit 13 years ago for all the players in the sake industry. It’s true! As...

It brings me great pleasure when members of the True Sake team get into the spirit of the newsletter and write some really fun reviews about sakes that speak to them. It is a team effort here at True Sake...

Meet the Gifu Prefecture Brewers - Free Tasting February 25th! Event: Sake Tasting at DG717Place：DG717, 717 Market Street, San Francisco, CATime: 6:30pm to 8:00pmCost: Free, free, free! Here are some of the great breweries from Japan that will be pouring:...

Sake Events – Sake Professional Course in ChicagoMarch 28 - 30, 2016 The True Sake Newsletter is an effort to inform as many people about all things sake as possible. As such I always encourage anybody, restaurant, group etc to...

Harushika Shiboribana ‘16From Nara Prefecture. Nama Junmai Ginjo. SMV:+1 Acidity: 1.4$36/720ml The nose on this year’s Harushika Nama is a splendid collection of blueberry, green apple, honeydew, and bubble gum elements. Ha! Usually this sake drinks very much like a ginjo each...

The Beau-Zone Layer – Katafune “Lagoon Boat”From Niigata Prefecture. Tokubetsu Honjozo. SMV: -4 Acidity: 1.5 Okay! Take your snob hat off! “What do you mean they add alcohol to sakes?” “That’s gross, that’s not pure!” Phooey! Honjozo sake is no...

So there have been a lot of requests on how to follow me and my (let’s call it unique) eye for sake-centric photography. There are two ways. First you can follow me directly at @truesake on Instagram, which is a really...

The sooner we see it the sooner I will die! Is that what you want? You want me dead? Ha! Thank you Lisa F from South Africa for your nice question. I am certain that you asked this question because...