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Sake On Air — 101 episodes

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1

Seeking Shizuoka Sake with Jacky Royer

2

A Traveler’s Guide to Awamori in Okinawa

3

Izakaya 102: Some of Our Recommendations for Good Sake, Good Food, and Good Company

4

Going to Sake Events and How to Find Them

5

Exploring Shiga: Breweries, Izakaya, and other Sake Travel Tips

6

Talking to Students of JSS Sake and Shochu Academy 2026

7

A Sake on Air News Bulletin: The State of Sake Exports

8

Songs of Sake for Koto and Shamisen with Bobby Griffin

9

The Hao and the Why of Tasting Sake

10

A Sake on Air News Bulletin: All Aboard the GI train to Kanto Shinetsu

11

Gekkeikan’s Past, Present, and Future with Okura Taiji-san

12

Discovering Kochi Sake with Simone Maynard and Taichiro Ogi

13

Visiting an Izakaya 101: Tips and Advice from Sake on Air

14

The Cloudy Origins of Sake and Other Sips of History

15

Catching up on 5 years of Zenkuro with founder David Joll

16

Koji & Casks: A Discussion about Shochu and Whisky with Liam McNulty

17

Talking sake with Toji Philip Harper at Kinoshita Brewery

18

Visiting Fukushima Sake Breweries with Miho and Elvira

19

The Changing of the Guard at Fujii Shuzo

20

Happy Sake Day!

21

On Location at the Kokushu Fair 2025 (Part 2)

22

On Location at the Kokushu Fair 2025 (Part 1)

23

Chatting Sake Volume Two

24

Opening THE GATE on Xavier Thuizat’s Recent Activities

25

Kanpai Revisited: Catching up with Tom Wilson

26

Chatting Sake Volume One

27

Introducing Iberkanpai: A Conversation with Mayuko Sasayama

28

Capturing Sake: A Special Photo Exhibition in Tokyo

29

Find your Sake Language at Sake Dozo Kitchen

30

Busting Sake Myths

31

Talking with the Houseman of Sake House: Julian Houseman

32

Sake 101 – A Short History of Sake

33

Sake 101 – Hot vs. Cold Sake: The Great Debate!

34

Sake 101 – The Art of Pairing Sake

35

Sake 101 – What is Premium Sake?

36

Sake 101 – How is Sake Made?

37

Sake 101 – What is Sake?

38

SAKE: The Art and Craft of Japan’s National Drink by Yoshiko UENO-Müller

39

Talking Koji with Higuchi Koichi

40

Traditional Sake Making is World Heritage!

41

Oh the Omachi! A Sake Rice Deep Dive

42

Slinging Sake with Sake Samurai Adrian Goh

43

Koji Cocktails with Sam Boulton

44

What even is a Sake GI?

45

Talking Spirits with the Advanced Shochu Academy 2024

46

[Special Announcement] Sake & Shochu Events in October 2024

47

Nada: The Sleeping Giant

48

Exploring Shochu in Kagoshima with Maya Aley

49

Natsuzake Revisited

50

Finding Sake Seeker: Thai food and Sake

51

Selling Sake in Ginza with Maksim Polkin

52

Designing Your Own Sake with Nathaniel Hoy

53

Craft Sake Week with Rebekah Wilson Lye

54

Preserving the Flavors of Sake with Coravin & Toku

55

A Sake of Your Own: Contract Brewing Sake

56

Rebroadcast: Matured Sake, Aged Sake

57

Studying Sake with Michael Tremblay

58

Rebroadcast: Shochu 101

59

Should Sake be Promoted like Wine?

60

Noto Earthquake Support

61

Becoming a Kuramoto with Junichi Masuda of Tsukinokatsura

62

Rebroadcast: Hot Sake (Kanzake) 101

63

Kurabito Stay with Marika Tazawa

64

Sake in Brazil with Fabio Ota

65

Tasting Sake… Professionally?

66

Shochu Cocktails with Suzu

67

Kusu Day: Tasting Awamori

68

Kura One by Katsunari Sawada (Part 2)

69

Kura One by Katsunari Sawada (Part 1)

70

Translating Taste with Arline Lyons

71

Mixing Shochu with Bartender Soran Nomura

72

Bubbling in the Moromi with Martin Sturma

73

Tippsy Sake with Genki Ito & Sachiko Miyagi

74

ARUTEN: On Your Own Terms with Jim Rion

75

MOYASHI: On Your Own Terms with the Sake Concierge

76

GENSHU: On Your Own Terms with Sebastien Lemoine

77

AMAKUCHI: On Your Own Terms with Tomomi Duquette

78

ARABASHIRI: On Your Own Terms with Keith Norum

79

KURA: On Your Own Terms with Chris Hughes

80

MUROKA: On Your Own Terms with Andrew Centofante

81

RICEY: On Your Own Terms with the Sake Concierge

82

KANRI: On Your Own Terms with Arline Lyons

83

NAMA: On Your Own Terms with Jorge Navarette

84

Discovering Yamaguchi Sake with Jim Rion

85

Starting a Brewery with Adachi Noujo

86

Thank You

87

Bringing Sake into the American Mainstream (Sake Future Summit 2022)

88

Global Transformation of Sake (Sake Future Summit 2022)

89

Okawari: Parenting with Sake

90

Constructing a Sake Ecosystem with Elliot Faber

91

The Sparkling Sake Brewery

92

Interviewing George Briant Parsons Inoue of Inoue Shuzo

93

Seasonal Sake with Namazake Paul

94

Sake Travel Episode 5: Kyoto with the Sake Concierge

95

Taste with the Toji & Simone Maynard

96

Sake Travel Episode 4: Niigata City

97

Sake Travel Episode 3: Hokkaido

98

Unfiltered September 2022

99

Sake Travel Episode 2: Nagano

100

Sake Travel Episode 1: Osaka

101

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