Archive for: Sake

George’s Rants and Raves: Hiro Sake

George’s Rants and Raves: Hiro Sake

If you still think that Sake is rice wine, then you don’t know Jack! Rice wine, per say, really doesn’t exist. You see, normal wine is made by the fermentation...

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George’s Rants & Raves: Gekkeikan Sake and Zipang

George’s Rants & Raves: Gekkeikan Sake and Zipang

There I was looking at the green bottle with the colorful labels and Japanese writing and art when in the corner I spied, “Product of USA produced and bottled...

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Gekkeikan Sake-Teriyaki Chicken

Gekkeikan Sake-Teriyaki Chicken

  1lb. chicken breast, 1/4inch sliced ¼ cup Gekkeikan Sake 1/3 cup soya sauce 1/3 cup mirin 2 tbsp sugar 1 tbsp vegetable oil          In a bowl combine...

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Shochu: A Step Beyond Sake

Shochu: A Step Beyond Sake

  Once considered a working class drink, shochu is now trendy with Japanese youth. In 2003, shōchū sales spiked sharply in Japan surpassing sake for the first...

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