Yojinbo

There’s a good 1-cup sake blog that I follow: bq69 collectibles.  It’s in Japanese so I don’t understand what it says until I translate it using Google Translate, but it’s a great blog.  He rates cup sake from all over Japan and takes detailed pictures of each cup that he reviews.  Here’s how he takes pictures of the cups:

He’s recently attended the a sake cup tasting in Japan and bloged about it (english)

Last night I got my sake kit in the mail.  It has:

• 64 ounce brown glass bottle
• 400g bag of rice, koji, yeast, and lactic acid
• A bubbler that lets CO2 out of the bottle but nothing else can get in

The kit was about $35.  It was pretty easy to get going.  I took 1.5 liters of hot tap water and put it in the glass jar with the rice/koji/yeast mixture.  Then I put the bottle in the sink filled with hot water for 5 hours to get the fermentation process started.  I let the water cool down naturally over night and this morning I put the bottle down in the basement where it will stay for the next 2 weeks while the yeast does it’s thing.