How to Enjoy Japanese Sake
To enjoy the taste or the relish depends on a person that drink it. Sake sommelier takes his points of how the brewing process finishes examining the flavor, the level of sourness and sweetness and etc., in his objective view but not his personal view.
Here we shall introduce how to enjoy the Sake personally.
To find your own brand
Every sake from every brewery has its own distinctive characters of brewing completion. If you like, it is an idea for you to find your own favorite brand; your best sake from special brewery house at your choice. To make this possible, you brush up your sense for the taste and the flavor etc. on your drinking the sake. Only when you are able to do this, you know and feel the air of country where the “Sake” was brewed. If the sake is for you not only just an alcoholic drink but a dream explorer also, how fantastic such the sake is!
Look at, please, the color of the sake in your glass. Is it thick or thin? How transparent and clear it is? When you get hot sake, the first thing you will have is its flavor. How do you feel it in the vapour and in your mouth? Please roll the sake on you tongue and feel the flavor through your nose after drinking up it.
They say that the more variety of taste expressions you have the more senses of taste you will have. If you are interested in finding of your own brand, it is recommendable that you note the brand name, the origin and your comment of the sake on your notebook. Please enjoy and taste Sake in your daily life, but not only drink-up.
As accessory in your atmosphere
It is also the way to have sake as the accessory in your talk atmosphere with your friends, ith your family, and in your ceremonial occasions. You can be relaxed with the sake.
Or, you like to have it alone?
One of famous and old Chinese poem expresses you can love the sake alone in just a concentrated phrase which is that his ‘Hyotan’ (bottle gourd) will lay when you sleep after drink.
Memo: “Hyotan”
It is a kind of container for Sake used in China and Japan in long time ago. As it is made of bottle gourd plant (dried), the bottom is not completely flat. When the sake is in the bottle gourd container, it can stay standing up, but when empty, it can not stay standing up. He survives his life in social complexes with Sake aside. In evening it also lays when he sleeps; so much he loves the Hyotan with Sake aside from social complexes.
It’s also a way of Sake for you to enjoy your night atmosphere with it.
Hints
Sake is healthy when you take it within appropriate volume. If you take too much of alcohol in short time, it remains in your blood with high density accumulated as the disintegration needs a certain time. This causes a drink-sick; so please enjoy sake having enough time within appropriate volume. It can be a burden in an empty stomach; albuminous food like milk, cheeses etc. are recommendable before and with alcoholic drinks. Vegetable with water held is also recommendable.
If you get drink-sick, it is important for your quick recovery to remove the burden off your stomach, which can be by taking water and good and soft foods. Vitamin C in lemon etc. (supplemental tablet with it, as well) helps smooth and quicker disintegration of alcohol in blood. Diastase contents like in white turnips guard stomach skin and help the disintegration also. Coffee with milk can be helpful in headache by drink-sick. Japanese tea, persimmon fruit and etc. holds contents to recover stomach skin conditions.
Not to get drink-sick, slow drink with appropriate volume, please.
