Join us this week as we keep things caliente and chat with our good friend Chizuko Niikawa-Helton about one of […]
Episode 11: Sake Production Series – Koji Making. There is a Fungus Among Us.
Our Sake Production Series marches forward with John and Tim exploring Koji – the magical fungus among us that is […]
Episode 10: Sake Production Series – Rice Washing, Soaking and Steaming
Since we’ve learned about sake ingredients and sake classifications already, we thought it might be fun to look at the […]
Episode 9: Just… Don’t Call It ‘Unfiltered’ – The Story of Nigori
What the heck is a nigori sake? Cloudy, Murky, Coarse, Milky… there are lots of ways to describe what we […]
Ep. 8 Gunma Sake Spotlight: Featuring New York’s Nicest Ninja, Sake Expert Chris Johnson
Ninjas are notoriously hard to pin down, but we were very lucky to recruit the nicest ninja in NYC to […]
EP. 7: Sake In The Raw: The Bold, Brash World Of Nama
An in-depth survey of American sake podcast hosts has concluded that “Nama” sake is awesome. Well, that survey was just […]
Ep. 6: Interview and Potluck Tasting with Sake Pro Ben Bell
Who doesn’t love a potluck? Well, I think lots of people don’t if you end up with three different jello […]
Ep. 5: Alcohol-Added On-Nomi : Sake Always Finds A Way
For every yin there is a yang, for every sunrise a sunset and for every Junmai sake classification, there is […]
Ep. 4: In Search of Junmai Sake: Drunken Whales and Country Roads
For this week “Junmai” is the magic word. It literally means “pure rice” in Japanese and refers to those styles […]
Ep. 3 Socially Distanced Sake
The rise of Covid-19 has John and Timothy recording remotely and sipping socially-distanced sake. In our last episode, we discussed […]