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Kobo Chronicals: CEL-24
Sake Revolution - April 19, 2024 18:00 - 29 minutesEpisode 165. If you hear the term "CEL-24" and the first thing you think of is prison, and not a sake yeast, I don't think anyone would blame you. But today we're here to spread the word on CEL-24 sake yeast and it's role in bringing us some of the most fruit-driven sake aromas on the planet. ...
Deep Faith: Supporting Noto
Sake Revolution - March 28, 2024 20:00 - 25 minutesEpisode 164. On New Year's Day, 2024, the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture was the epicenter of a major earthquake measuring a 7.6 on the Richter scale. The affected areas are especially well known for sake brewing and in Ishikawa in particular, 24 out of 33 Ishikawa Sake Brewery Associati...
Serious Baggage: Bringing Sake Back from Japan
Sake Revolution - February 10, 2024 19:00 - 34 minutesEpisode 163. Word on the street is that travel to Japan is surging! One of the joys of travel to Japan is returning with a suitcase full of sake! But how best to do it?! This week, John and Timothy discuss the ins and outs of bringing back sake from Japan. What's allowed and what's not! Where ...
Sake Revolution 2023 Recap: Our Year in Sake
Sake Revolution - January 20, 2024 04:00 - 33 minutesEpisode 162. With 2023 drawing to a close, it's time to take a look back at the sake year that was. Join us this week for some casual sipping and some discussion on the highlights, surprises and challenges of this past year's sake adventures. Tim and John both let us know their favorite sake st...
Branded: Masumi
Sake Revolution - December 28, 2023 21:00 - 30 minutesEpisode 161. This week, John and Timothy explore another brand profile: Masumi from Miyasaka Jozo in Nagano Prefecture. Most well known as the birthplace of Association Number 7 sake yeast, Masumi has a long history dating back to 1662. Located on beautiful Lake Suwa, Masumi is a brand that is ...
Wild Rice: Hattannishiki
Sake Revolution - December 13, 2023 02:00 - 30 minutesEpisode 160. It's time to get wild again! Wild about sake rice, that is. Wild Rice is our series where we look closer at different strains of sake rice and what makes them unique. This time around, we look to a rice native to Hiroshima Prefecture - Hattannishiki. Known to not grow as tall as ...
Ep. 49: How to Enjoy Sake: Easy Buying Guide
Sugidama Sake Podcast - December 02, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutesThe new season of Sugidama Sake Podcast is out and I am releasing the first episode on Saturday! This is the start of a mini-series "How to Enjoy Sake". After talking to a lot of people who don't drink sake I have realised that very often the reason is that they believe that sake has some speci...
Sake Vessel Series: Guinomi
Sake Revolution - November 05, 2023 16:00 - 32 minutesEpisode 159. Week in and week out, our standard gear for tasting and evaluating sake is a simple wine glass. This works really well and almost everybody has one nearby. But in Japan, there are a wide variety of shapes, materials and sizes used to make cups for drinking sake. That got us wonderin...
Extreme Sake: Doburoku
Sake Revolution - October 27, 2023 23:00 - 29 minutesEpisode 158. Enough playing it safe! It's time for another walk on the high wire that is our extreme sake series! This time, the guys skirt the law and explore the rough and ready style of home-brew style sake known as Doburoku. While Home brewing of doburoku has been outlawed in Japan for over ...
LIVE! The American Craft Sake Festival 2023: Byron Stithem of Proper Sake Co
Sake Revolution - October 16, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutesEpisode 157. For our final episode recorded live at this year’s American Craft Sake Festival, we are happy to bring you another U.S. sake brewer interview. This time, we visit with our pal Byron Stithem, owner and brewer at Nashville’s Proper Sake Co., and the owner at Rice Vice, the attached sa...
LIVE! The American Craft Sake Festival 2023: Blake Richardson and Nick Lowry of Moto-i
Sake Revolution - October 04, 2023 14:00 - 30 minutesEpisode 156. Again this week, we revisit our field trip to the American Craft Sake Festival held this year in Charlottesville VA and bring you another U.S. sake brewer interview. This time, we get a two-for-one as we interview Blake Richardson and Nick Lowry of Moto-i Sake Brewery, which is base...
LIVE! The American Craft Sake Festival 2023: Whitney Isbell Jones of Isbell Farms
Sake Revolution - September 11, 2023 21:00 - 33 minutesEpisode 155. Our visit to the American Craft Sake Festival was awash with brewers, but one non-sake booth in particular caught our eye. Without rice, there is no sake and we had the chance to sit down with Whitney Isbell Jones of the world famous Isbell Rice Farm in England, Arkansas. Whitney ...
Natsu Sake: Chill Out with Seasonal Sips for Summer
Sake Revolution - August 28, 2023 03:00 - 27 minutesEpisode 154. Taking a quick detour from our American Craft Sake Festival series, we're sneaking in a seasonally appropriate episode before it's too late. "Natsu Sake" or summer sake, is a new-ish genre of brews meant to take the edge off of the sweltering summer heat, all while letting us enjoy...
LIVE! The American Craft Sake Festival 2023: Justin LeVaughn of The Void Sake Company
Sake Revolution - August 19, 2023 18:00 - 28 minutesEpisode 153. Listen in as we continue our series of live interviews from the American Craft Sake Festival 2023! This week it's all about SAKE Y'ALL, as the T-shirt of our interviewee says. We welcome Co-founder and Head Brewer of The Void Sake Company, Justin LeVaughn. Justin runs Kentucky's on...
LIVE! The American Craft Sake Festival 2023: Sake Brewers Roundtable
Sake Revolution - August 02, 2023 23:00 - 25 minutesEpisode 152. This week, we take Sake Revolution on the road! John and Timothy recently attended the 3rd annual American Craft Sake Festival in Charlottesville, VA. Sake Revolution hosted a live podcast recording of a "brewers roundtable" on stage in front of an enthusiastic crowd of sake lover...
Rice Advice: A Chat with Brooklyn Kura's Brandon Doughan
Sake Revolution - July 15, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutesEpisode 151. Everyone knowns that sake is made from rice, but how much of a role does rice variety really play in a sake's taste? We're lucky enough to have a Toji on speed dial! We phoned up our friend and local sake brewmaster Brandon Doughan, the Toji at New York's first sake brewery, Brookl...
Sake Spotlight: Shiga
Sake Revolution - June 23, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutesEpisode 150. This week we continue our series on prefecture profiles with a special focus on those prefectures that are "landlocked" with no access to the sea or ocean. Despite no ocean view, Shiga is awash in water with 20% of it's area covered by Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake! This water f...
Sake Spotlight: Gunma
Sake Revolution - June 16, 2023 17:00 - 33 minutesEpisode 149. This week we return to another fun and sake-rich prefecture: Gunma! This area is home to onsens, national parks, record breaking tunnels and some pretty darn good sake. After we first touched on this region in episode 8, we thought it deserved another visit and a bit more explorati...
Behind the Mask: Exploring Sake Skincare and Cosmetics
Sake Revolution - June 05, 2023 16:00 - 31 minutesEpisode 148. Did you know that there is a booming business in skincare products made from sake? In this episode, we dive face first into the world of sake beauty products, from the use of sake in your bath, to sake kasu used to soften skin and finally to the science behind kojic acid and how it'...
Apple of my Eye: Kinoene “Ripe Apple” Sake
Sake Revolution - May 13, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutesEpisode 147. How do you like them apples?! When we discovered the Kinoene "ripe apple" Junmai Ginjo sake from Iinuma Honke Brewery, we knew we need to take a bite and find out what this unique sake is all about. This took us on a journey exploring yeast, acidity and some pretty extreme fruity f...
Ep. 48: Shochu Advisor Course Overview
Sugidama Sake Podcast - May 04, 2023 17:00 - 31 minutesThe final episode of Season 4 is about a new Shochu Advisor Course, run by the Intentional Sake School. I have recently taken it and decided to share my experience. The course was taught by amazing Toshio Ueno, a Co-Founder of the Sake School of America, Director of Sake at MTC. Ueno san is Sak...
Exploring Sake Labels
Sake Revolution - May 03, 2023 21:00 - 32 minutesEpisode 146. Do you judge a book by it's cover? Or even more likely, perhaps you've purchased a sake based only on the label? Since we've all been there, we thought it might be fun to explore the world of sake labels and share some likes, dislikes and survival tips for navigating your way aroun...
Tippsy Sake Club with Sachiko Miyagi
Sake Revolution - April 28, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutesEpisode 145. TippsySake.com is a well known online retailer of sake in the U.S. and when they launched their new Tippsy Sake Club in March, John and Timothy knew they had to check it out. To get started, Tippsy designed an interactive online quiz that walks you through a few questions to help id...
Ep 47: Sake Around the World. Sake in Manchester with Jamie Ryder (Yamato Magazine)
Sugidama Sake Podcast - April 20, 2023 07:00 - 36 minutesIt's the conclusion of the Sake Around the World miniseries. We started it in Birmingham with Simon Boulton, then flew to Hong Kong to talk to Eric and Will, after that we chatted with Timothy and John from the Sake Revolution podcast in New York and made a stop in Paris to discuss sake and wine...
Think Pink! Sake Under the Cherry Blossoms
Sake Revolution - April 18, 2023 19:00 - 28 minutesEpisode 144. This week, we “think pink”! Hanami is the Japanese tradition of picnicking under cherry trees in full bloom. It’s a treasured seasonal pastime in Japan that is carefully tracked and timed for friends and family to enjoy blossom viewing at its peak. The cherry blossoms represent the ...
Sake in the Movies with Ben Haslar
Sake Revolution - April 10, 2023 21:00 - 33 minutesEpisode 143. Lights, Camera, Action! This week we are joined by fellow podcaster, film buff and sake fanatic Ben Haslar, from the Reels of Justice podcast to talk sakes and film. We focus primarily on the famous Birth of Sake documentary from 2015, a film that explores sake making at Ishikawa ...
Ep. 46: Brewery Focus. Kuheiji Honten with Japan Centre
Sugidama Sake Podcast - April 06, 2023 07:00 - 1 hourKuheiji Kuno is a maverick. He's a trailblazer of the sake world taking his inspiration from hundreds of years of sake brewing tradition, Japanese culture and philosophy of living with nature, and French winemaking. He believes in terroir, which remains a controversial topic in the sake industr...
Sake In The News 2
Sake Revolution - March 30, 2023 01:00 - 32 minutesEpisode 142. Stop the presses! Sake is back again in the news recently and we wanted to take a look at some of the latest newsworthy sake headlines hitting our shores. This week, we'll discuss the New York Times' declaration that "Sake is Booming in America" and talk about their comprehensive t...
Ep 45: Sake Around the World. Sake in France with Tony Yip
Sugidama Sake Podcast - March 23, 2023 08:00 - 57 minutesWe continue our journey around the world to find out how sake fares in different countries. And today I am talking to Tony Yip from VSF Wine Education about France. How does sake coexist with wine in one of the key wine-making countries? Do people drink sake at all there and what about local sa...
Interview with Reiko Hirai of DC Sake Co
Sake Revolution - March 22, 2023 19:00 - 29 minutesEpisode 141. When you think of Washington DC, What pops to mind? Maybe the White House? or perhaps the picturesque cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin each spring? If this week's guest has her way, when you think of DC, you'll soon think of "sake"! Reiko Hirai is the founder of DC Sake Co ...
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