Sake Flashcards
Kimoto:
Yamahai:
Sokujo:
Bodaimoto:
(you need lactic acid to form)
Kimoto: pounding of lactic mash cultivating bacteria acid from air, kills bad bacteria prior to fermentation
Yamahai (1909) without batonnage, lactic acid still forms protecting sake vibrant gamey flavor
Sujoko: introducing lactic acid, most common
Bodaimoto: monks mixed steamed rice with raw rice and water, encourages natural lactic bacteria. add yeast to starter mash initiating fermentation
What is tokebetsu
Means more highly polished rice: no legal percentage
What is Futsuu-shu
80% of sake production
Doesnt qualify under Tokutei Meishou-Shu classifications
Daiginjo-Shu
(can be junmai or honjozo)
Very highly polished rice 50% polished away
17% alcohol
Scientific name for Koji fungi
Aspergillus Oryzae
What is Yama-Oroshi in Kimoto method
Pole Ramming, to create lactic acid. Traditional, orthodox method
Rice varieties of sake
Yamada Nishiki
Omachi Rice
Miyama Nishiki
Gohakumangoku
Oseto
Hatta Nishiki
Tamazakae
Kame No O
Hidahomaree
Dewa San San
Gradations of Semaibuai
Junmaishu-none
Honjozo-70% remaining
Tokebetsu-Unique Characteristic or 60% remaining
Ginjoshu-60% remaning
Daiginjoshu-50% remaining
Junmai Shu:
No brewers alcohol
No semaibuai for this classification
Prefectures of Japan (47)
Hokkaido
Aomori
Akita
Iwatee
Yamagata
Miyagi
Niigata
Fukushima
Tochigi
Ibaraki
Gunma
Nagano
Toyama
Ishikawa
Chiba
Saitama
Tokyo
Kanagawa
Yamanashi
Gifu
Shizuoka
Fukui
Aichi
Shiga
Mie
Kyoto
Hyogo
Nara
Osaka
Tottori
Prefectures contd
Wakayama
Kagawa
Tokushima
Shimane
Hiroshima
Okayama
Kochi
ehime
Yamagachi
Oita
Fukuoka
Nagasaki
Saga
Kumamoto
Miyazaki
Kagoshima
Okinawa
how many prefectures in Japan
47
is Nigori technically sake
No,
As “sheishu,” or clean sake is the legal definition
but could achieve status by straining by products and re-introducing them
What is shibori
Term for pressing sake from lees
What is Shizuku-Shibori (Fukuro-Tsuri)
Drip-pressing method
Fine, elegant and Expensive
What is nihonshu
Translates into “Japanese Alcohol”
what many call Sake
What is Tokutei Meishou-Shu
Grades of Sake
When was semaibuai system introduced in Japan?
1991
What kind of koji is generally used in Sake produciton?
Yellow koji,
Aspergillus Oryzae
What is a fune?
Box press or “boat press” for pressing more delicate styles of Sake
Why is a sake bottle 720 milliliters?
Standard size of a glass blowers lungs, Increments of nine.
What Prefectures were granted GI status in 1991
Yamagata
Hakusan Kikusake
First imperial Sake Brewery in Japan
Nara
689
What happened in 1943 in Sake
Government introduced standards for sake
First Junmai Sake was produced by this Kura, this prefecture, this year
Chiysono
Kumamoto Prefecture
1968
Terms that are outlawed from Sake Production
Ichiban “leading”
daihyo “number one”
Daihyo “Leading”
When are rice patties planted?
April and June (Similar to Wine production)
What is Tokutei Meisho-Shu (special grade sake)
Santoh (Grade 3)
Nittoh (Grade 2)
Ittoh (Grade 1)
Tokuto (Special Grade)
Tokujo (Higher Special Grade)
By law cannot have preservatives, coloring agents, fragrances or flavors added
What is the term for freshly pressed sake
shibori tate
What is Genshu Sake
Undiluted Sake
If the volume of water added alters the original alcohol level by less than 1%
What is Jizake
Sake from a smaller kura or sakagura (brewery)
What is Namazake
Unpasteurized sake
Cups used for Sake
ochoko (small cylindrical vessels) or the more ceremonial sakazuki cups
What is doburoku?
the rustic, unrefined homebrew sake made in millennia past.
What is Arukouru Tenka or Aruten ?
sake with spirit added
Style of Honjozo
Legally, sake must have an alcoholic content of no more than __% ABV.
22%
What is kasubuai?
the percentage ratio of sake kasu (pomacebo left over after production) to the original volume of polished rice used to create the sake.
What is a seimaiki?
Rice polishing machine
What is genmai
What is hakumai
Genmai (Brown Rice)
Hakumai (White rice)
Who makes Super 7 Junmai Daiginjo?
Hakurakusei, from Miyagi in northern Japan
uses a rice polishing machine whose milling roll is made with diamond crystals and purportedly cost three million USDwith a seimaibuai of 7%
What is the steaming and cooling period for sake called?
karashi kikan
Horei
How much moisture is added during the steaming process of sake? (Kirashi kikan)
12%
What is kakemai?
What is kojimai?
(non-koji rice) is always at the bottom of the steaming tank
(rice that will be sprinkled with koji mold) needs to be at cooler temp for koji propagation
What is sandan shikomi?
After the addition or cultivation of lactic acid, koji, kakemai, and water will be added in three stages over the following six days
Stages. are:
hatsu-zoe, naka-zoe, and tome-zoe.
between hatsu-zoe and naka-zoe is “odori”: the “dancing ferment” where bubbles form as yeast interacts with sugar and starch is converted to sugar.
What is the shikomi?
(main fermentation mash), roughly 1,310 liters of water, 200 kilograms of koji, and 800 kilograms of rice will be fermenting.
How long does it take to make one batch of sake?
30 to more than 60 days to make one batch of sake.
What is moromi?
The main fermentation
Most expensive methods of sake pressing
shizuku-shibori (tear drop or gravity press)
fukuro-tsuri (hanging bag)
The bag is called sakabukuro
What is shiboritate?
fresh squeezed sake
Names for the three stages of sake pressing
Arabashiri (“first run”) is barely cloudy.
Nakagumi (or nakadori, meaning “taken from the middle”) the best
Seme (“final run”) may be included in a batch of sake
Twice-pasteurized sake is known as:
Hiire-Sake
first brewery to build a storage facility that maintained a constant low temperature? What year? (Sake matures at below zero temperatures for 2-6 mos average)
Dewazakura
in Yamagata
1975
What is koku?
equivalent to 180 liters of sake, for tax purposes
What is Zenkoku Shinshu Kanpyoukai?
a nationwide new sake competition since 1910
What is shinshu?
What is Hiyaoroshi?
Shinshu: Sake released in current brewing year
Hiyaoroshi: fall namachozo (single pasteurized sake) rounder and mellower, later release
What is koshu?
What is ogoshu
Aged Sake.
Sake made in one brewing year and bottled in the next
ogoshu: “extra aged sake.”
This Sake yeast is most popular:
Yeast No. 7, or Nanago, by Miyasaka Brewing Company in Nagano, circa 1946. More than half of Japan’s breweries have used this yeast, known for subtle tree fruit aromas.
What does The suffix “01” added to any yeast’s name mean?
indicates that it is non-foaming
What does Ki-ippon mean?
Single origin sake
Hokkaido’s system requires this: (largest and northernmost prefecture)
70% minimum seimaibuai and Junmai-level sake only
Yamada Nishiki is a cross between these two grains and was created. this year
1936 as a cross between the Yamadaho and Watari Bune rice varieties
Oldest rice variety used today
Omachi
A heritage rice variety
Kame no O
These rice varieties are only grown in one specific prefecture
Ginginga is grown only in Iwate, Dewasansan in Yamagata, Akita Sake Komachi in Akita, and Ginpu in Hokkaido.
This brewery makes sparkling sake and riddles by hand
Bunraku in Saitama Prefecture
What is Akazake?
(Sake with charcoal added, to make it slightly alkaline and prevent spoilage)