Author Archives: boston sake

July 25

beginner’s sake tasting for 20 bucks.

Writing a blog like this you could easily price some people out of the experience; it would be simple to pair some $30/Lb steaks with an $80 bottle of Sake and have a really great time doing it! Although I am not excluding such exercises, I also wanted to include some experiences at a much […]

July 20

buying fresh sake in boston.

Sake, like any other grain based brewed alcohol, has a shelf life. Luckily alcoholic beverages do not traditionally “go bad” like milk or orange juice; but the time for the Sake to taste how the brewer intended it to is most assuredly finite. Here in Boston it is not uncommon to find some dusty bottles lining shelves […]

July 18

sake tasting.cambridge.july 19th 2011.

This Tuesday night from 5 to 7pm there is a Sake tasting at Central Bottle wine and provisions in Cambridge. The tasting will sample Sake from Ichishima Brewery in Niigata and will be lead by Ichishima’s U.S. representative, and general Sake bon vivant, Michael Simkin. Central Bottle Wine+Provisions Ichishima Brewery