20% off on sparkling sakes - in-store only! Tiny bubbles! (Sung in my best Don Ho voice.....) Once the holidays are out of the way then comes the last night of 2011. In years past you have consumed a great...
Dear Sake Drinker, Welcome to the December Issue of America's sake-centric Newsletter. In this issue let sake take care of your Christmas and holiday gift giving needs, get your bubbles on with sparkling sakes for New Years, learn about another...
I'm not going to even say it! Oh well! "It's that time of year" As if you aren't completely aware by the mere fact that every TV ad and radio commercial as been about Christmas since two weeks before Thanksgiving....
Sake 101 "Classic" $25 (includes box and tasting notes) Shirakabegura "White Wall" (Junmai) Hakutsuru "White Crane" (Junmai Ginjo) Chobei "First Boss" (Junmai Daiginjo) Sake 101 "Deluxe" $42 (includes box and tasting notes) Bunraku "Forgotten Japanese Spirit" (Yamahai Junmai) Kudoki Jozu...
Firstly Ryan A. from Cedar Rapids, do what you want to do! You don't HAVE to warm your sakes, especially since you have found such a home in your chilled sakes. But there are so many benefits to warming sake...
Ah, at last we have reached the end of this Newsletter and that of course means that we have come to the now-famous SECRET WORD. To those who are new the SECRET WORD is a chance for you to try...
In the November Issue of the True Sake Newsletter I wrote a tongue and cheek piece about the sake world needing a face - a public persona - a mascot if you will that would appeal to all and represent...
Well "sensei" might be a bit much! I get embarrassed when people call me that, especially owners of sake breweries who introduce me as such. Sake "Sucker" might be more appropriate! In any case, this "Sake Sucker" cannot always be...
Please be a part of our "Sake Images" section by contributing your very select sake related photographs. I'm not looking for a batch of your pictures, rather I'd like to see one or two really powerful shots that could be...
The other day I was reminded that I had not written my piece for the newsletter for months. Well, my mind and body were preoccupied while I battled with an illness for most of the year. Although I had less...
December 9th - Shirataki Jozen "Triple Taster" FREE! Come in and taste 3 different kinds of Shirataki Jozen Mizunogotoshi Pink! White! & Aqua! WHEN: Friday 12/9, 5-7pm WHERE: 560 Hayes Street WHAT: Shirataki Jozen Mizunogotoshi Junmai Ginjo "Pink" & "White"...
Have you ever wanted to visit as sake brewery without setting up the whole trip? Just received this info from our friend Jennifer Hale Ockner, who organizes these amazing excursions into the heart of sake country when the breweries are...
