Tag Archive for ‘Dassai’
Dassai Lecture at The Brooklyn Kitchen
Last night I spoke at a fun and unique Dassai Sake Brewery Tasting. The event was held at The Brooklyn Kitchen and featured four kinds of Dassai Sake, food cooked to prefection with Dassai Sake Lees by Chef Mori of Kyoya and outrageously awesome artisanal meats and cheeses. I did a short lecture and slideshow ...
Deeply Madly Truly Dassai… Yopparai Style
Sake Bar Yopparai kicked off May with a fun evening of yummy-sake-drinking and good-food-eating by partnering with Dassai Brewery for an event called “Deeply Dassai, Yopparai Style”. The event focused on a 5 course set menu, all paired with Dassai Sakes. Sounds good, but wait – there’s more… the little surprise is that many of ...
The Dassai Experience: A Walk Around the Brewery
Once I was settled into my room, the first order of business was to take a walk around the brewery grounds. I first visited Dassai in 2007. Since then there have been a lot of changes! First off, a brand new factory building has been built. This was just a construction site when I visited ...
The Dassai Experience: What’s New Yamaguchi?!
For two months earlier this year, I lived and worked at Asahi Shuzo, makers of the world famous Dassai super premium sake in Yamaguchi, Japan. My goal was to learn about the real life in a sake brewery and learn the basics of sake brewing for myself. I’m back in New York from this amazing ...
2010 Golden Masu Awards
Before we leave 2010 behind us forever, I wanted to take a look back at this year and highlight some master brews we encountered over the last 12 months. It’s been an awesome year – both for sake and for myself! I got to travel to Japan twice this year which is a dream come true. Tasting new sakes is always a thrill and 2010 allowed me to do lots of that. What could be better?!
NYC: Japanese Culinary Center Dassai Sake Event
Let’s make Dassai It takes just a matter of minutes to brew! Do you know how sake is brewed? Have you ever visited a sake house? We will welcome Asahi Brewery, who manufactures only exclusive Junmai Daiginjo class sakes with Yamada Nishiki Rice (it is considered as the best Shuzo-Kotekimai é…’é€ å¥½é©ç±³). Mr. Kazuhiro Sakurai of ...