Exploring the world of Japanese craft sak©♭ : [rice, water, earth]
This stunning guide invites you into the story of sake--an ancient beverage finding its way in a modern world. Whether you're a sake novice or an experienced connoisseur, Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake offers fascinating insights, practical tips, and rich stories about this popular beverage. Nancy Matsumoto and Michael Tremblay personally undertook the challenge of visiting 33 artisanal sake breweries in Japan, the US, and Canada to interview makers and document every stage of the sake brewing process.
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- ISBN: 9784805316511
- ISBN: 4805316519
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Physical Description
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240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm - Publisher Tokyo, [Japan] ; Rutland, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, [2022]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. Subtitle from cover. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Wide world of sake / John Gauntner -- Why we wrote this book -- A sake primer -- Rice, water, earth. Yamada Nishiki, the grand cru sake rice -- The birth of ginjo -- Hiroshima and the Saijo brewers (birth of ginjo, part II) -- The polishing wars -- The new grains: the era of the hybrid -- The heirloom rice hunters -- Crazy for Omachi -- Water: hard or soft? -- Amazing shrine water -- Snow country -- Perfumed water from the palace -- Mountains and terroir -- Going organic -- Bodaimoto: the monk starter -- The alchemists: yeast, mold, makers and cooks. The father of modern Kochi yeast -- The yeast hunters -- The merchants of mold -- Master brewers and the new collections -- Reclaiming their place: women master brewers -- Sake bar nights -- Recipes and stories -- Craft sake and the world -- Where do we go from here? |