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Kodaishu - Days of Yore
Show Notes
Andy and Jim explore the very oldest kinds of sake in search of the real roots. From drunken serpents to monkly brews, we look at the earliest records of sake to see how it developed in the olden days.
Vocabulary from this episode
Sumizake - An ancient kind of filtered sake. No one knows for sure how they filtered it.
Dakushu / Doburoku / Nigorizake - all the same kanji, all meaning “cloudy/muddied sake.”
Heian Period - 794-1185
Goshu - An ancient sake brewed in the Heian. Kojibuai 28.6%, water absorption 77% (Modern koji 22%, mizubuai 135% )
Goishu - Another ancient Heian sake. 1 dan jikomi brewed from late August into september. 28.6% kojibuai and mizubuai of 51.4% (very very low). SMV -80-100. The low water content prevented spoilage.
Kamakura - 1185-1333 Rise of private breweries, people drank too much, banned.
Muromachi 1336-1573
Azuchi-Momoyama 1568-1603
Edo Period 1603-1867
Tamonin Nikki (Tamon temple chronicles) from 1478 to 1618
Recommended Sake
Andy - Sawa no Tsuru Kimoto Honjozo
Jim - Daruma Masamune 10 year koshu
Our theme music is from Lotus Lane by The Loyalist - Preconceived Notions
Available at https://soundcloud.com/preconceived-notions
Under a Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lotus-lane
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/1YVHRMVwwHg
Show Notes
Andy and Jim explore the very oldest kinds of sake in search of the real roots. From drunken serpents to monkly brews, we look at the earliest records of sake to see how it developed in the olden days.
Vocabulary from this episode
Sumizake - An ancient kind of filtered sake. No one knows for sure how they filtered it.
Dakushu / Doburoku / Nigorizake - all the same kanji, all meaning “cloudy/muddied sake.”
Heian Period - 794-1185
Goshu - An ancient sake brewed in the Heian. Kojibuai 28.6%, water absorption 77% (Modern koji 22%, mizubuai 135% )
Goishu - Another ancient Heian sake. 1 dan jikomi brewed from late August into september. 28.6% kojibuai and mizubuai of 51.4% (very very low). SMV -80-100. The low water content prevented spoilage.
Kamakura - 1185-1333 Rise of private breweries, people drank too much, banned.
Muromachi 1336-1573
Azuchi-Momoyama 1568-1603
Edo Period 1603-1867
Tamonin Nikki (Tamon temple chronicles) from 1478 to 1618
Recommended Sake
Andy - Sawa no Tsuru Kimoto Honjozo
Jim - Daruma Masamune 10 year koshu
Our theme music is from Lotus Lane by The Loyalist - Preconceived Notions
Available at https://soundcloud.com/preconceived-notions
Under a Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lotus-lane
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/1YVHRMVwwHg
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