Sake Guides
Articles on choosing, tasting, serving, and how sake is made. Currently available in Japanese.
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05Chilled, Room Temperature, or Warmed? Sake Serving Temperatures and Storage Basics
Pour the same bottle at 5°C and again at 40°C, and you will taste two different drinks: the aroma shifts, and so does how sweet or dry it seems. Sake is one of the few brewed beverages in the world that is genuinely enjoyable both chilled and warmed. Change nothing but the temperature, and a bott...
Serving & Storage #Soshu (light & crisp) #Junshu (rich) #Jukushu (aged) #Beginner #temperature #storage -
24Tokkuri, Ochoko, and Ichigo: Sake Vessels, Measures, and Etiquette Explained
At an izakaya or a banquet table, the names of sake vessels and units can leave you guessing. Someone says "a tokkuri holds one go," and you have no idea how much that actually is. It's a common moment of confusion.
Serving & Storage #Beginner #vessels #terms