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)
So this morning I went down to the basement and brought up the jug of that’s been fermenting for the past 10 days.
I poured a little out through the strainer that came in the kit. It looked like nigori sake which is the white, unfiltered kind. It had a little bit of a yellow tint to it.
I was eager to try it so I poured a little in to a cup and tasted it. Not a great taste.
I noticed that the jug was still bubbling a bit when I put the stopper back on and that means that the yeast is still doing it’s thing.
Back to the basement for a few more days. I’ll give it another taste on Thursday.
Last night I got my sake kit in the mail. It has:
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.