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Mar 31, 2025 55 min

Aramasa - Sake with Style

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Andy and Jim go all in on a single brewery this time, looking at Akita Prefecture’s Aramasa Shuzo. Known as one of the most desirable and hard-to-get labels around, we wonder what exactly makes it that way? The answer may well lie in an obsessive focus on detail, from brewery cleaning to label design. Scrub your kioke, tie up the shimenawa, and fill your cup with a true maboroshi. Kanpai! Vocab for this episode Kioke 木桶 - Wooden tanks for fermentation etc. Aramasa uses all wooden tanks. Shimenawa しめ縄 - A woven straw rope decorated with white paper charms, associated with sacred spaces in the Shinto faith. Used on the tanks at Aramasa. Maboroshi 幻 - Literally a “phantom,” figuratively it’s something that is elusive. Kame 亀 - A turtle. Recommendations: Andy - Nirukame Jim - Cosmos Don’t forget to support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/SakeDeepDive Also, check out Andy’s website at: https://www.originsake.com/ And buy Jim’s book, Discovering Yamaguchi Sake wherever you order your books (print and ebook available)! 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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