Thursday, October 01, 2009

Happy Sake Day

I just discovered that today, October 1st, is Sake Day or 'Nihonshu Hi' as it called here. There's a Publicity page in the Japan Times with three articles extolling the virture of the traditional brewed beverage. ( Update : The supplement is now available as a PDF from their website: Sake Day Special).

One of the items is from Timothy Sullivan of UrbanSake.com who was on my blog roll for a long time. He lives in the US and is one of only 17 Sake Samurai in the world. Probably the only other Gaijin Sake Samurai is John Gaunter of Sake-World.com whose sake course we went on last year. ( The pictures are on flickr.com but my account has expired and you can't see them at the moment! )

There's an article about Born a brewery in Sabae, Fukui prefecture. They offer a range of high quality brands available in many countries around the world. Also included is a piece from Yoshimore Tomi in California, owner of the Japanese restaurant Sushi Ran. He will be celebrating Sake Day with an outdoor kagamiwari :'sake-barrel breaking ceremony', which sounds like fun.

Where ever you are in the world, have a drop of decent Junmai Daiginjo and toast with me 'Sake Day'.

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10/03/2009 03:27:00 PM  
Blogger sixmats said...

Oh no! I missed it.

I'd better make up for it ... starting tonight.

10/08/2009 08:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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10/26/2009 06:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Joshua Zimmerman said...

While Japanese sake is awesome, you need to check out Japanese Scotch. Places up in Hokkaido are producing some great stuff.

(Also, there is a great Sake Festival every october in Hiroshima. Now thats a place to check out a lot of sake.

11/10/2009 10:30:00 AM  

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