Sake Basics Flashcards
The name means “pure rice”. J________ is sake composed of only rice, water, koji and sake yeast. No other ingredients or additives, such as alcohol or sugar, are added. The rice that has been polished to 70% or less of its original size is used to brew. The sake character tends to have a full-bodied and slightly acidic.
Junmai
In this sake, not more than 120 liters or raw alcohol per each metric ton of white rice and no glucose have been added during brewing process.Added alcohol cannnot exceed 25% of the total alcohol in the finished product. In the U.S. it is not legal to make Honjozo or to add alcohol to sake. Imported Honjozo is categorized into distilled spirits.
The sake character tends to lighter than Junmai.
Honjozo
A special type of Junmai or Honjozo, and considered the highest achievement of the brewer’s art. All the rice employed in brewing _______must be polished to at least 60% of its original size. Dai-_______ is brewed with the rice polished to at least 50%. In many _____ brewers use special yeasts in making Moto, and ferment the final mash very slowly at low temperature. This extra effort produce a sake that is lighter, clean taste and tangy flavor and an aroma.
Ginjo
In this sake, fresh sake is microfiltered instead of other sake is pasteurized twice, once before aging and once in the process of bottling. _______ is fruity and fresh taste with pleasant aroma.
Nama “Draft sake”.
“Cloudy”- sake is unfilterd or roughly filterd so that some Moromi in the fermenting tank make it into the bottle. This sake is a milky white appearance.
______ is bold and sweet taste
Nigori
An undiluted sake. After filtration, sake has an alcohol content of around 19%. Most of sake on the market have been diluted with water until their alcohol contents falls to between 12 and 16%. _______ is full-bodied and rich taste.
Genshu
原酒
原酒
Genshu
にごり酒 /濁り酒
Nigori
生酒
Nama
吟醸酒
Ginjo
本醸造
Honjozo
純米酒
Junmai
