If you're looking for an well-written and extremely easy to understand rundown of what makes shochu and awamori unique, then look no further than Chef Marc Matsumoto's website, No Recipes. Marc splits his time between talking food trends and cooking on TV, creating content for his website, reinventing classic recipes, and leading cooking classes at various studios around … [Read more...]
Kagoshima Honkaku Shochu Festival in Tokyo
If you're in Tokyo on November 1st, this is a lively shochu event that involves several distilleries and chances to talk to the people that make shochu for a living. … [Read more...]
Shochu Street 2017
One of the biggest shochu parties of the year kicks off on Wednesday, November 1st! 113 distilleries are participating this year, so if you are in Kagoshima or Southern Kyushu this week, then get thee to Tenmonkan! … [Read more...]
Okuchi Distillery: A Kagoshima Favorite from the Isa Basin
The earliest known written reference to shochu was discovered at Kōriyama Hachiman Shrine in the small valley city of Isa, Kagoshima. Dating from 1559, the reference is actually graffiti, a protest by the carpenters who hid their complaint within the roof’s rafters. They were upset that they were not given any shochu while working on the shrine, a considerable slight since the … [Read more...]
HONKAKU SHOCHU & AWAMORI DAY
November 1st! Grab some awamori or shochu and kanpai! … [Read more...]