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What is Junmai-shu sake?
- Junmai-shu (Pure Rice) is a sake without the addition
- of distilled alcohol.
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What is Ginjo-shu sake?
- The rice grains used to make the sake have been
- polished of 40% of their hull.
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What is Honjozo-shu sake?
- The rice grains used to make the sake have been
- polished of 30% of their hull and the sake has been fortified with distilled
- alcohol.
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What is Daiginjo-shu sake?
- The rice grains used to make the sake have been
- polished of 50% of their hull.
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What does namazake mean on a sake label?
The sake is unpasteurized.
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This type of sake is an "ordinary sake"
more or less equal to table wine.
Futsu-shu
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Special designation or premium sake is known as what?
Tokutei meishō-shu
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Most sake is diluted after brewing. When sake is undiluted it is known
as...
Genshu
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What does Moruka mean?
- Moruka is a sake that has not been carbon filtered,
- however it has been pressed and separated from the lees, therefore it is not
- cloudy.
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What does Nigorizake mean?
- A cloudy sake with a significant amount of rice
- sediment. The sake is pressed
- through a loose mesh to separate it from the mesh.
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What does seishu mean?
- clear/clean sake, is the Japanese legal definition of
- sake and refers to sake in which the solids have been strained out, leaving
- clear liquid. Thus nigorizake and doburoku (see below) are not seishu and
- therefore are not actually sake under Japanese law. However, nigorizake can
- get seishu status by being strained clear and having lees put back in
- afterward.
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What is koshu sake?
- Aged sake.
- Most sake does not age well but some can last decades. Koshu has a yellow color and honeyed
- flavor.
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What is taruzake sake?
Sake matured in wooden casks
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What is shiboritate?
- freshly pressed, refers to sake that has been shipped
- without the traditional six-month aging/maturation period. The result is
- usually a more acidic, "greener" sake.
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What is Fukurozuri sake?
- Drip sake or sake that has been separated by the lees
- by dripping through cloth containers.
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What is Tobingakoi sake?
- When the sake is pressed into 18 litre bottles and the
- brewer selects the best of the batch.
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What is a kura?
A sake brewery
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What is a Tōji?
A sake brewer
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What is seimaibuai rice?
Rice polished to 70% its original size.
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