Kura (酒蔵): Inside a Traditional Japanese Sake Brewery
A great sake begins long before the rice is even washed. Instead, it begins with the building itself, the kura. So what is a kura? A kura, or sakagura, is a traditional Japanese sa...
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A great sake begins long before the rice is even washed. Instead, it begins with the building itself, the kura. So what is a kura? A kura, or sakagura, is a traditional Japanese sa...
A kurabito is a sake brewery worker, one of the skilled hands who brews sake under the toji, or master brewer. Sake is never the work of one person alone, and behind every bottle s...
Reuben Oh and Yumika Yamamoto overcame the challenges of brewing sake in Singapore to create distinctly local expressions now served at Michelin-starred restaurants, recognised in...
Two tanks of sake sit side by side in a storage building. Same rice, same yeast, same recipe, same brewing season. Yet one tastes rounder, while the other carries sharper acidity....
Two breweries can start with the same rice variety, the same well, and the same yeast. Yet the sake in the glass tastes nothing alike. The reason usually hides in a document that d...
Pour a glass of good sake and hold it up to the light. That transparency looks effortless, yet it takes weeks of quiet work. So what is Orisage? Orisage (滓下げ) is the clarificati...
Every bottle of sake leaves something behind. After the fermented mash is pressed, a soft, pale, fragrant solid remains in the press. The Japanese call it sake kasu, and many peopl...
Sandan jikomi is the traditional three-step method of building the main fermentation mash in sake brewing. Brewers add steamed rice, koji, and water in three stages, spread across...
Kan-zukuri is the traditional practice of brewing sake during the coldest months of the year. The cold does real work here. Low temperatures slow fermentation, keep it stable, and...
Jukusei (熟成) is the maturation of sake after brewing has finished. During this stage, time, temperature, and storage conditions gradually reshape its aroma, flavor, color, and te...
The history of sake stretches back roughly two thousand years, at least if you use the word broadly for Japanese alcoholic drinks made from rice. Yet the earliest rice-based drinks...
Bottling, or binzume (瓶詰め) in Japanese, is the stage where finished sake enters its retail container. Brewers fill, seal and then check the liquid they have spent months prepari...
Kumimizu buai (汲水歩合) is sake’s water-to-rice ratio. Brewers calculate it by dividing the brewing water in liters by the total rice in kilograms, then multiplying by 100. Most b...
Karashi (枯らし) is a conditioning period in sake brewing, and it happens three separate times. Rice rests after polishing, koji rests after leaving the koji room, and the finished...
Oribiki (ж»“еј•гЃЌ) is the sake racking step that separates clear sake from settled sediment after pressing. Brewers rest the freshly pressed sake until solids sink, then draw the...
Ask someone how sake reaches its final strength, and most people picture the fermentation tank. Yet one of the last and most quietly important steps happens after brewing is basica...
Behind every great bottle of sake stands one guiding figure: the toji. So what is a toji? A toji is the master brewer who leads all of sake production. Indeed, this person oversees...
Een sake tippen als wijntip van de week, zijn we gek geworden? Niet als je weet dat de fles ons getipt werd door de enige master sakesommelier van Nederland en dat 'ie zich ondanks...
Angel has a new drinks destination in SANE, London's first bar dedicated solely to sake and wine. It's the work of sommelier Maxime Maiano, who's spent the last four years in Japan...
kenta yoshizawa reimagines traditional japanese crafts like bamboo fencing, kumihimo braiding, washi paper art, and urushi lacquering. The post red craft collection reworks four ja...
We'll have a short stroll among some of the recent Japanese distilleries, all selected by Lucky Choice and friends in Asia. We're happy to try Shizuoka again, as well as Sakurao wh...
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