Re-read Popular Articles【English Ver.】
– Saki Kimura –

Here are the top 5 most viewed SakeTips! articles of all time!
In this issue, we will show articles by Saki Kimura, a sake journalist (as of October 31, 2020).

Sequoia Sake Company, San Francisco’s first sake brewery by the husband and wife team of Jake Myrick and Noriko Kamei, achieved 1st and 3rd places in “Overseas Brewed Sake” category for SAKE COMPETITION 2019 in Japan…

Arriving at John F Kennedy International Airport, I made sure that there were no new messages in my email box, and redialed an unrecognised number in the call history. The man who received my call, soon after I gave my name, apologized that he had finally decided not to accept my interview…

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When I sipped sake poured from a bottle with an illustration of Bambi and a title “Nama,” fresh fruity odor sparked and juicy flavor of rice spread throughout the mouth.
– I had never expected that I could experience “this” flavor here…

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After the rain, the street was littered with junk. The walls of buildings along asphalt roads are covered in richly colored graffiti. Due to the strange site for a sake brewery, I could not, with confidence, say “yes”to the Uber driver’s question: “Your destination is here?”…

On February 21th, “Molecular Sake” caused a buzz among Japanese sake aficionados on Twitter: San Francisco Chronicle reported that SF startup Endless West released synthetic sake made from ethanol and chemical compounds instead of rice…