Sunflower Club Monthly Archives
the sake I chose for January– Hakuto Tokubetsu Junmai, Tahoma Fuji Namagenshu, and Bizen Maboroshi Junmai Ginjo-- are a bit of a diary entry. The original plan was to share fresh Tahoma Fuji (Seattle) and Shirafuji (Woodinville) to highlight our small PNW brewers but the Shirafuji shinshu isn’t yet ready, they’re bottling next week. So January club took a few unexpected turns, much like the unexpected turns of January. The good, the bad, the insightful: January 2024 in a nutshell.
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For December 2023 sake club, in honor of the recent arrival of two super-fresh Kokken Shuzo bottlings, the (aged) Yamahai Junmai and Tokubetsu Junmai, I did a comic deep-dive into Kokken Shuzo and the recent history of Fukushima sake. Using original watercolor art to illustrate this story, we dip into the Kokken name, their illustrious toji, the incredible research efforts of Suzuki Kenji and the evolution of Fukushima rice, yeast, and production methods, as well as the effects of the Daiichi nuclear disaster.
All original content © Sunflower Sake, Nina Murphy
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