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I see Sake’s possibilities through beer and wine colored glasses

May 14th, 2012 at 6:42 pm » Comments (0)

Having grown up in the Portland area I witnessed a huge transformation in the local wine industry as Oregon began to establish itself as a premier Pinot growing region and ...more »

I finally did it! My book, Brewing Sake, is out.

April 1st, 2012 at 11:38 pm » Comments (4)

Brewing Sake hit Amazon around the 20th and is making it into the channels. It can take up to 6 weeks to fully make its way through the channel. I ...more »

How much moisture? How dry is dry?

March 19th, 2012 at 10:48 pm » Comments (0)

I decided to do a quick experiment to determine the amount of moisture in my soaked rice. It had been a while since I looked up how to do this ...more »

Shio-koji?

March 4th, 2012 at 10:37 am » Comments (6)

Recently, there have been a few different articles and mentions of shio-koji. I had never heard of this until these articles. I came across shio-koji through a chain of retweets ...more »

Sake Pressing: what method to use?

February 20th, 2012 at 2:08 pm » Comments (0)

Recently one of the youtube channels I follow, SakaguraKaetsu's channel, has had a few short videos on pressing. Specifically, they have a couple on filling a fune (P1020493.MOV, P1020548.MOV) and ...more »

Sake in a carton – I’ll give it a try

February 5th, 2012 at 3:27 pm » Comments (2)

While I was last at Uwajimaya to pick up some sake I noticed a couple of cartons of sake; two different brands. I recalled reading a piece by John Gauntner ...more »

Saké: 6th Annual Saké and Japanese Beer Show – The really hard advanced class

January 22nd, 2012 at 8:22 am » Comments (0)

Marcus Pakiser invited me to come to the Young’s Market Annual Sake Show and attend his advanced saké course. I did not know what to expect but I was very ...more »

This week just a bit of babble

January 8th, 2012 at 9:36 pm » Comments (5)

I want to apologize for missing my last post and not having something more topical for this post. I have lots going on so I have not been able to ...more »

Verifying the concentration of your Sodium Hydroxide solution

December 10th, 2011 at 9:45 pm » Comments (0)

OK, so you have some Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) solution that you have been using to measure your sake or wine’s acidity but it has been a while. Maybe even a ...more »

Measuring your Sake – Part four: Amino San-do (アミノ酸度)

November 26th, 2011 at 11:39 pm » Comments (0)

In part one I talked about how to measure the Nihonshu-do or Sake Meter Value (SMV) or your sake. In part two I covered how to measure the Arukoru bun ...more »