Issue 6: From the Editor

Feature

Welcome to Issue 6 of Sake Today! Thanks to your support, we have crossed yet another threshold. It’s been a year since we first made the decision to go quarterly and offer subscriptions, and our first wave of subscribers have already renewed with this issue. Please be sure to continue the support with a subscription…

Hiroshima

Excerpt

Hiroshima, along with Nada in Kobe and Fushimi in Kyoto, is one of the most significant brewing regions in western Japan. However, it has only been so for a small part of sake’s long history. Until the middle of the Meiji Era about 120 years ago it was just a run-of-the-mill brewing region. What really…

Vol. 1 Issue 4: From the Editor

Feature

I have been buying sake from the same shop here in Kamakura for over twenty years now. Sure, I buy sake regularly at other places, too. I am always searching for enjoyable sake shopping options that offer selections other than those with which I am familiar. Still, there is this one shop in particular where…

Niigata, Jizake Ground Zero

Excerpt

Rice region. Sake region. There are probably no two greater associations that the Japanese make with Niigata. The prefecture is known as the largest producer of highly-prized Koshihikari rice and is additionally home to no less than ninety sake breweries, placing it second only behind Hyogo. In terms of overall production volume, it is third.…

Vol. 1 Issue 3: From the Editor

Uncategorized

A recent social media post by a sake brewer who travels the world proactively promoting his product described a couple of sake events in London at which he appeared. He then, after the modern literary equivalent of a pregnant pause, stated confidently, “The pace at which sake is growing in popularity is accelerating appreciably.” While…