It's Sake Time

This weekend, I visited the Nada area of Kobe with my wife and KansaiPJ. Nada is well known in Japan for it's large number of Sake Breweries and it's high quality of sake production.

We checked out the Hakutsuru and Kiku-Masamune Sake Breweries. Admission to all the breweries is free and so are the sake samples! It was an informative and somewhat booze saturated afternoon.




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[villehelsinki]

what is sake ?

[BusanKevin]

a fermented rice wine

[SkiddieOwnage]

how much % of alcohol does this thing have?

[BusanKevin]

about %14-16

[skanemaggie]

how long have you been in japan?

[BusanKevin]

now....1.5 years

[Ichiro0402Nakano]

Good video. I enjoyed it. Thank you.

Please note that sticks in the "使用済" case are used sticks. He should use new one to eat pickles next time.

[sklzlm]

Japan is sooo beautiful. I visited Toyama years ago and took some priceless photos. I cant wait to go again to visit the Kansai region...

[makekirai332]

おいおい、ここって神戸市じゃねーか(〃゜д゜;A　アセアセ・・・驚いたねこりゃ・・・・。神戸市も海外に日本酒を­輸出したらいいのに。今じゃ国内では日本酒は下火になってるから­な。

[BelloBudo007]

Glad you showed this as you looked to be enjoying yourselves. I tried to organise a visit to a sake distillery in Kyushu & shot off an email to them asking if it was okay to visit. No answer came and I concluded they couldn't understand English or didn't want drunk gaigin or what ever.

[TheHachibeekillerbee]

@villehelsinki wisky japanese or vodka japanese ^^ the sake is very good =)

[Uchihalove2]

how many drinks of sake will it take to get u drunk i want to know so when i go japen i want to try it

[inuyashaspet]

Looks like you had a BLAST.

I was at Nada-gogo myself last week, but only managed to find Shu-shin-kan by cab. Attempted to walk around (during the BLAZING summer heat) but the only other sakagura I could find that opens to the public (Taki Koi) was closed for the off-season! By that time, it was too hot and tiresome for my other non-sake loving travel members to continue any further on the fruitless walk through town. (which simply resembled a big industrial complex, btw)

I hate my life.

[kaisermuto]

Little SAKE is good medicin for health. In proverb says Sake is top thing among 100 kinds of medicin.

[jenst1983]

@BusanKevin It's not wine.

[BVargas78]

sake is not a bad drink, makes me sleepy though!

[Apeshavenotails2]

@jackass5566 no man don't get drunk. Not many adults are responsible enough so at 17 you probably will screw something up. I'm actually 17.

[jackass5566]

@jammetti

I'll try :)