Tag: saké

こんばんは。It’s Friday! So why not have a drink to celebrate the arrival of the weekend?

At the moment, we have a couple houseguests staying with us for a few days, and they bought over a bottle of some delicious saké. 🍶 My tastebuds are not so fine-tuned as to detect the subtle differences in most saké but I know what I like, and I really like this one. 😆

As far as drinking goes, I usually have a drink every day, most commonly a glass of wine before dinner, or a beer with dinner. But on the weekends, a little more is okay! But I can’t remember the last time I had too much to drink! I guess getting older means the sleepy feeling overwhelms the party feeling more and more. 😀

I hope you had a nice week!

またね～

こんばんは。

Tonight Mariko, Kumiko, Matt, and I attended a “blind” saké tasting at the Texas Saké Company. The folks from Yummysake were visiting from Japan for SXSW, where they had a booth at the tradeshow, and then they held a few tastings in the evening. It was a lot of fun!

Basically, we tasted 10 different saké, and rated each one. Depending on the ratings, the Yummysake app would give you a taste profile. The idea is that you can go to restaurants who use the profile system, and they can serve you the saké that most suits your palette. I’m not sure how useful it will be unless a lot of restaurants participate, but it was interesting to try it and get assigned a profile.

Honestly, I don’t know what each profile means, but Matt and I were both “Shara-shara”, and Mariko and Kumiko were also paired up, although I don’t remember which profile they were.

It was a fun evening, and after the tasting, we enjoyed another glass of saké and chatted with the Yummysaké rep. Good times!

I hope you had a nice Wednesday!

またね～