True Sake Newsletter No. 261 - Let It May! 🪷

Welcome to the 261st issue of America’s sake-centric Newsletter. In this late spring issue, read all about the most popular female Toji in Japan known for making perfect honjozo sake and sake milled to less than 0%, take note that SAKE DAY tickets go on sale JUNE 1st, learn about a terrible loss for the sake industry and the man and his mission that will continue on for the betterment of sake, take a gander at a new wave of late spring seasonal nama (unpasteurized) brews, circle your calendar for a ton of in-store sake tastings in May, check out a sake made with LED lighting in the New Store Arrivals that features some “back in stock” brews that should not be missed, learn about the only bottle of DASSAI AMBITION that we have in the “Baller Sake” section, see how Chris and True Sake is adapting to AI in the sake industry in “Chris’s Corner,” visit Fukushima’s Akebono Shuzo (makers of Tenmei) in the Beau-Zone Layer, take a sake class of two in the Takara Tasting Room from the Sake School of America, and don’t forget to whisper the SECRET WORD. 

Sake Brewery Study – Visiting The Legendary Niizawa Brewery in Miyagi

SAKE DAY 2026 – ALERT! WARNING! Tickets Go On Sale June 1st 

Sake Legacies – One Man’s Sake Mission Carries On 

Seasonal Namas – The “Late Spring” Namas Are Flowing In

In-Store Saturday Tastings – Chris Presents May Tastings of Note 

New Store Arrivals – Narutotai, Taiun, & Lots of “Back In Stocks” 

“Baller Sake” – DASSAI AMBITION (Only One Bottle) 

Chris’s Corner – How Is AI Going To Have An Effect On Our Sake Industry?

The “Beau-Zone” Layer – Tenmei “Orange Label” 

Sake Education – Sake School of America @ Takara Tasting Room