True Sake

No you are not crazy! (well just a little) Yes! There have been some themes in this newsletter. I was in London. I was sick. I tasted sake. I tasted poor sake at a restaurant. I tasted sake professionally. I...

This is a Japan Times article about Sudo Honke (The Ibaraki brewery that is the oldest in the biz) makers of Sato no Homare "Pride of the Village." We bring this article to your attention because as fate would have...

We all have one! We know it! And sometimes we appreciate it and often we just simply forget to recognize how lucky we are to know "that guy." I have a "that guy" and quite frankly I am so privileged...

Whoooooaaaa! You see it happening - right there before your eyes - your brain immediately processes the info at hand - the waiter has gone mad - but - but - should you say something - should you do something...

As I wrote in the introduction of my book - "Sake a Modern Guide" - sake called to me in the strangest of places - in a dark and seedy sushi bar in Cape Town, South Africa. Yes, that was...

All because of a coupon! There is a sake on the shelves at True Sake, that made a long journey from a great little izakaya in Tokyo to SF. How? Well let's just say it's a whale of a story!...

I used to refer to it as the "Shipping News" - the countless and endless updates that kept most out of state readers with frowns on their sake sipping faces - frowns because we could not ship great sake to...

Two words - "pay-off and cheapest." WRONG Two more "True" words - "Quality and Fit" I often joke that I drink a lot of bad sake so you don't have to! Well I need to reevaluate that to say that...

Yup - you better not forget her. Yes her! The one who brought us into this story called our lives - talk about a "ground zero." Is there any more ground zero for each of us than our dear mothers?...

When was the last time that you ate booze? A good solid square meal of alcohol? A big heaping portion of giggle juice? And no your watermelon with a hole filled with vodka does not count. Neither does that jello...

It's the economy stoopid! Yes, times are pretty tight and tough at the moment, and I thought that it would be wise to write a little about the state of the sake economy. Specifically how it hits you in your...

It was August 7th 2003 at 2:30PM when I opened the door of my "sake shop" to the public. The store was not even finished! Instead of my fancy surfboard like table I had two wooden horses with a massive...