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Ryosuke Kuga
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Ryosuke Kuga
What is 'Karakuchi' Sake?
When you look at a sake label on a bottle or read a review on sake, you will see this word 'Karakuchi'. Actually, even in Japan, this word confuses people whose 1st language is Japanese and let me explain this today. Conclusion - Dryness First of all, 'Karakuchi' is a word to describe a flavor of something to eat or drink. ‘Karakuchi’ can be divided to 'Kara' and 'Kuchi'. 'Kara' usually means 'spicy' (like a pepper), but especially when we talk about alcoholic beverage, 'Kara' means ‘opposite of sweet’ or 'dry' impression. It is also different from bitter. And 'Kuchi' means a flavor in this sense. Most importantly, how we feel is totally subjective, which means how you feel is defined by how you grow up, it is hard to distinguish 100% which is Karakuchi or not. However, it can be determined to some extent by ‘Nihonshu-Do’ (Sake meter value, ‘SMV’. This is in number such as +10 and -15 (greater is drier) this indicates how much sugar is contained in a sakes. Let’s focus on ‘Karakuchi’ today and see what SMV mean next time.) Example – SMV is greater than +1.4, a sake tends to be classified as ‘Karakuchi’. How to make dry sake is to let a yeast eat up all the sugar during fermentation. The yeast eats up the sugar produced by a koji and turns it into alcohol. The less sugar that remains, the drier the sake is. In my experience, ‘Karakuchi’ sakes go well with Japanese food such as sashimi, sushi. My favorite Karakuchi sake is Yorokobigaijin (Maruo Honten) from Kagawa prefecture, Kikuhime (Kikuhime Co., Ltd) from Ishikawa Prefecture and Hiokizakura (Yamane shuzo) from Tottori prefecture. The most important thing is we enjoy sake without thinking difficult or complicated stuff - regardless of the Karakuchi or not, all the sake is great. I’ll help you find your sake in the world. --Kuga
Ryosuke Kuga
I’d like to travel a Sake world with you!
Self-introduction - Originally I like drinking alcohol and have been passionate about Sake around 10 years ago. Sharaku (Fukushima/Miyaizumi Meijo) was a trigger of having me dive deeper to this world which I tasted in a restaurant in Japan. Since then, I became a collector of Sake and a traveler of Sake world. While I have visited many breweries, liquor stores and restaurants in Japan, I found out that Sake has super wide varieties and all of them have different history/taste/how to enjoy it and realized that life is too short to travel by myself since this world is super spacious and deep. Especially for now, I am interested in making this app the greatest community of Sake in the world where Sake lovers can easily connect with each other, find great Sake which you have never experienced and keep track/share of your Sake record. Let’s explore this interesting Sake world with us! --- Refrigerator and Sake when I started drinking (2015)
