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Get schooled in sake at Bay Area breweries, museums + shops
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Jan 23, 2018
We ve all had our share of wine tastings and too many flights of craft beer and whiskey to count. Care for something different?
Of course, there s absolutely nothing new about sake. The low-alcohol, fermented rice drink is so ancient and prevalent in its native Japan that the country is apparently over it, but that s not stopping Western importers from bringing it over by the boatload.
And while most sophisticated Bay Area foodies have long since moved beyond the notion that sake must be served hot (the good stuff is always chilled), sake is still often reserved for pairing with sushi. But the Japanese have a saying:
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Takara Sake’s virtual tasting sessions are held over Zoom, but attendees get five bottles to sample at home during the one-hour class. Photo: Anna Mindess
In the good old days, sigh, when my husband and I would go out to Japanese restaurants, like Kamado Sushi, Kiku Sushi or Sushi California in Berkeley, we would always order a bottle of cold sake to drink with our meal. We would ask the servers for suggestions (“not too dry, not too sweet”), and they would bring something that we usually liked, but, somehow, we never made a note of its name. (At Kamado, the sake is served in an elegant glass decanter with a pocket for ice, so we didn’t even see the bottle). I always told myself that,