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Season of Greetings

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Its almost the time of seasonal greetings!
Festive and tasteful gift suggestion from Hakkaisan.
These are Hyotan bottled Junmaiginjo and Ginjo sake. Hakkaisan sake is very elegant and clean, it goes wonderfully with roasted meat and savory vegetable dish of this season.
A Hyotan bottle contains 180ml of sake, and if you like, you can make the sake warm after take off the wrap. Bathe the bottle directly in a pot with hot water for few minutes. The warmth takes the edges off of sake and make round flavor, also warmth allows you to tastes the sweetness of sake.
The beautiful color of ultramarine bottle would be a nice accent at party table.

A Year at Hakkaisan Brewery

My first glimpse of Hakkaisan Mountain (back right) as I arrive for a year at Hakkaisan Brewery.

My first glimpse of Hakkaisan Mountain (back right) as I arrive for a year at Hakkaisan Brewery.

It’s been over three years since I started as Hakkaisan Brand Ambassador.  My work in this role has been to travel all around the world to introduce Hakkaisan Brewery, it’s products and company culture as well as to do all manner of sake education.  

To deepen my understanding of all these things even more, I’m spending one year away from travel to live at Hakkaisan Sake Brewery in Minami Uonuma City, Niigata Prefecture.  

My Year at Hakkaisan is all about cultural activities.  Primarily, I’ll be learning the art and science of sake brewing from the Hakkaisan Kurabito (sake brewers).  Every few weeks, I’ll move to a new department in the brewery to study a step in the sake production process.  From rice milling all the way through sake mash pressing, I’ll get hands-on experience and learn from the experts.

Inside Hakkaisan Sake Brewery

Inside Hakkaisan Sake Brewery

In addition to my time in the brewery,  I’ll be exploring the local community of Minami Uonuma, Niigata – about 90 mins from Tokyo.  I will visit local festivals and shrines and all kinds of community events.  This area is perhaps most famous for receiving vast amounts of snow in the wintertime – sometimes up to 8 feet of snow on the ground at any one time! Needless to say, I’m sure I’ll be in for some fun new experiences.  

If you’d like to follow along on my adventure, visit Hakkaisan.com every week to see a new blog update and check our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!

30339051502_53dc4e8eb3_oTimothy Sullivan, Hakkaisan Brand Ambassador

Joy of Sake ~ Gold Award for Tokubetsu Junmai ~

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We are proudly announcing that our Hakkaisan Tokubetsu Junmai sake awarded GOLD AWARD in 2016 U.S. National Sake Appraisal Sake Competition.

U.S. National Sake Appraisal conducts annual sake competition in Hawaii where every level of Junmai and fortification of alcohol sake which are ranked into Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards.
The Joy of Sake, a tasting event, exhibit about 400 kinds of sake which entered to the sake competition. The Joy of Sake is coming to Tokyo in November 2nd!! This is an incredible opportunity for sake lovers to try out many different sake at once and experience diversity of sake.

Joy of Sake Tokyo
https://www.joyofsake.com/tokyo.html

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A Night of Sake ~Enjoy the finest Japanese sake from top brewers in support of charity~

Canadian, Danish, German, and South African Chamber of Commerce in Japan are going to held special charity sake tasting night.

“Come and join a fantastic Japanese-themed event with an interesting network of people from all over the world, and support NADIA, a charity helping those in the affected earthquake regions of northern Honshu, Japan. There will be door prizes including sake-related products and Japanese Inn ryokan stays. A buffet will be served.”

Location: Tokyo American Club
Date: Friday, September 16, 2016
Time: 19:00 ~ 21:30
Dress: Business Casual (Cool Biz)
Price for participating Chamber Members: JPY 8,500
Price for non-members: JPY 9,500

Please register from http://www.cccj.or.jp/en/event/night-sake

A NIGHT OF SAKE

2016 Fall/Winter Trade Shows and Tasting Events

We are about to getting into Sake brewing season this year, so do trade shows and tasting events. Fall is busy time for Hakkaisan International Team!! Hakkaisan will travel the world to make appearances in trade shows and tasting events this fall as well.  We are looking forward to see you out there! Join us for experiencing the world of sake! KANPAI!

September 17th – 18th : Atlanta Japan Fest –  Duluth, GA, USA  http://www.japanfest.org/

October 2nd : Wine House Los Angels in-store sake sampling – Los Angels, CA, USA https://www.winehouse.com/result.php?s=nw,CLASSES%2FEVENTS&d=CLASSES/EVENTS       The event information should be updated soon

October 8th and 9th : Milano Sake Fest – Milano, Italy https://laviadelsake.it/sake-festival/

October 22nd to 24th : Salon du Sake – Paris, France http://salon-du-sake.fr/

November 2nd : Joy of Sake in Japan (sake exhibit only) – Tokyo, Japan https://www.joyofsake.com/tokyo.html

November 3rd – 4th :  Grand Wine Experience Philipines https://www.facebook.com/events/314298245403440/                                                                    The event information should be updated soon

November  :  Niigata Sake no Jin in Hong Kong

Salon du Sake 2015