Sake Reviews

   Today we've got something very interesting from Kikuchi Brewery - this is Sakaoto, the brewery's newest series of Sakes that are not only made ...

  Nihonsakari (sometimes simply nicknamed Sakari) started out life in 1889 in the Nada region of the Hyogo Prefecture as the Nishinomiya Kigyo Com...

  What happens if you grew up in a country well-known and proud of its production of a national drink, and yet you couldn't take part in the craft...

  Kiku-Masamune is a historic Sake brewer that's one of Japan's oldest, dating back to 1659 - that's over 350 years ago and back then the fourth T...

  Tamano Hikari (or TamanoHikari) is a historic Sake brewer that goes all the way back to 1673, when Nakaya Rokuzaemon had first gotten a license ...

  Kamotsuru comes from the combination of two words "kamosu" which means brewing (and refers to where the brewery draws its waters from, Mount Kam...

  Aramasa is a historic Sake brewery that is deeply intertwined with the history of sake-brewing in Japan, and whose survival and success today is...

  Puku Puku (ぷくぷく) is a really interesting Sake brewer that runs itself as a phantom brewer - that is, it has no Sake brewing facilities of its ow...

  Kikusui's Perfect Snow Nigori is not only an homage to the brewery's snowy home of the Niigata Prefecture, but is also a great and accessible pl...

  haccoba, yes that's a lower-case "h", has become one of the most exciting Sake brewers in Japan in spite of its youth. In the Sake game, generat...

  We're back with sixth-generation Gunma Prefecture Sake brewery Tsuchida! Today we're going to try the Tsuchida 12, which is meant to be a low AB...

  Toko is one of the oldest active Sake brewers in Japan and is a highly regarded one at that - no small feat in a country that has some of the wo...