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NYC: May 2012 Hakkaisan Sake Restaurant Week

Join Hakkaisan in the merry month of May for Hakkaisan Sake Restaurant Week from May 21st to 26th in NYC. You can get some amazing specials that feature Hakkaisan Sake sold at a special price! The participating restaurant this month is Jukai. For the latest updates, be sure to Like Hakkaisan on Facebook!

Jukai
237 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022
tel: 212 588 9788
http://www.jukainyc.com

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NYC: Kuro Ushi Junmai Tasting at Sakaya

Kuro Ushi Junmai Sake Tasting (Wakayama)

Saturday, May 26, 2012, 5-7pm

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NYC: May 2012 Hakkaisan Sake Restaurant Week

Join Hakkaisan in the merry month of May for Hakkaisan Sake Restaurant Week from May 21st to 26th in NYC. You can get some amazing specials that feature Hakkaisan Sake sold at a special price! The participating restaurant this month is Jukai. For the latest updates, be sure to Like Hakkaisan on Facebook!

Jukai
237 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022
tel: 212 588 9788
http://www.jukainyc.com

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Toronto: Kampai Toronto Sake Festival

Kampai Toronto is the first-ever large-scale sake festival held in Downtown Toronto, the largest festival of its kind in Canada. ‘Kampai’ is the Japanese word for ‘Cheers’. Kampai Toronto is organized by The Sake Institute of Ontario, a trade organization of Ontario’s sake importers, distributors, and manufacturers.

Tickets are limited to 350, so purchase yours online before the event sells out. Guests will have the opportunity to taste more than 100 sakes at Kampai Toronto, sourced from dozens of breweries from Japan, Canada and the U.S. Some of the products are or will be available at the LCBO, others will be unique to the event but available for purchase / order. Be assured that a diverse range of sake grades and styles will be made available by our numerous exhibitors.

Guests will have unlimited access to all sakes being poured for the duration of the Festival, subject to availability. Appetizer-styled food will also be available to guests at the Festival courtesy of our Partner Restaurants.

VIP Guests will be have the opportunity to attend the Festival’s one-hour Professional Sake Seminar and Structured Tasting, designed for Trade Professionals wishing to learn more about the history, production, grades, and styles of sake. The Seminar will be conducted by Michael Tremblay, Ontario’s first and only certified Advanced Sake Professional. VIP Guests will also have Early Access to the tasting floor, with an advanced 30 minutes of VIP-only tasting to enjoy! Limited availability, and online only, so purchase yours ASAP.

Date:
Thursday, May 31, 2012 6:30PM – 9:00PM

Location:
Fermenting Cellar, The Distillery District, 55 Mill Street, Toronto, ON M5A 3C4

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NYC: Naraman Night at Wasan

6/1(Fri) Naraman Night @ Wasan www.wasan-ny.com

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NYC: Kagatobi Night at Sakagura

SAKAGURA AND FUKUMITSUYA present
“KAGATOBI NIGHT”

Sakagura cordially invites you to “KAGATOBI NIGHT”!

Fukumitsuya Brewery was founded in the Edo period in 1625. They make sakes using only fine quality sake rice and mineral water. With these natural ingredients and brewers’ skills, sakes are brought to perfection.

We will welcome Mr. Taichiro Fukumitsu, executive director of Fukumitsuya Brewery and Mr. Junichi Yageta, marketing director.

The three sakes that have been carefully selected for that night are:
“Kagatobi Tasting Set” $21.00 (3 kinds/50 ml each)
-Sennichi-Kakoi (1000 days aged) Junmai Daiginjo
-Kagatobi Junmai Ginjo
-Kagatobi Sparkling Junmai Nigori

Above three kinds of Kagatobi Label sakes will also be served by the glass, carafe, half bottle and bottle for 20% OFF!!

Fukumitsuya original gifts are being planned for the guests who order any Kagatobi labels!

Prompt RSVPs are recommended for an evening not to be missed.
RSVP Hotlines : 212-953-SAKE (7253)
*RSVP will be taken on a first-come first-serve basis. We cannot hold orders in advance.

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NYC: Nishimoto Sake Tasting at Brooklyn Kitchen

Think you know sake? Think again! Come taste a variety of premium sakes presented by sake brewers visiting us from all over Japan. In this special tasting, 16 brewers will be here to present sake and shochu they have chosen for us to try. From floral and fruity, to fragrant with the delicate aromas of rice, you’ll have the chance to taste many styles (including sparkling sake) and expand your knowledge of this drink. We’ve partnered with the Nishimoto Trading Company to bring you this one of a kind tasting, which is open to professionals in the beverage industry as well as consumers wanting to learn more about the wide world of sake.

Sign up here:
http://www.thebrooklynkitchen.com/web-store/index.php?product=6-02+Sake+and+Shochu+Tasting

Price: $25.00

Taste sakes and shochu from:
Homare Sake Brewey Co., Ltd. – Fukushima
Sawanotsuru Co., Ltd. – Hyogo
Kizakura Co., Ltd. – Kyoto
Fukumitsuya Sake Brewery – Ishikawa
Yumegokoro Sake Brewery – Fukushima
Echigo Denemon Co., Ltd. – Niigata
Hokkaido Muumin Village – Hokkaido
Kumejima’s Kumesen Co., Ltd. – Okinawa
Kirishima Shuzou Co., Ltd. – Miyazaki
Yamamoto Shuzou Co., Ltd. – Kagoshima
Satsuma Shuzo Co., Ltd. – Kagoshima
Shirataki Brewery Co., Ltd. – Niigata
Urakasumi Sake Brewery Saura Co., Ltd. – Miyagi
Kurosawa Sake Brewing Co., Ltd. – Nagano
Okunomatsu Sake Brewery Co., Ltd. – Fukushima
Yaegaki Sake & Spirits, Inc. – Hyogo

To reserve your spot, please pre-register online. Attendees must provide proof of legal drinking age for admission to the event.

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NYC: Rice & Water: The Building Blocks of Premium Sake

The ingredients of sake–rice and water–are very simple, hence their quality is of paramount importance. Most sake breweries are located near a plentiful source of pure, natural water, which plays a big role in the final flavors and nature of the sake.

Sake rice is milled, sometimes down to 35 percent of the original size of the grains, in order to achieve the highest quality of sake. Sake expert John Gaunter introduces the importance of rice and water in sake brewing.

Followed by a sake tasting reception with more than 30 kinds of premium sake. Co-organized by Japan Sake Export Association.

Must be 21 years of age.

TICKETS
$35/$30 Japan Society members, seniors & students

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NYC: Dassai Sake Tasting at Brooklyn Kitchen

Join us for a tasting and food pairing with Dassai Sake, makers of some of the finest premium sake from Yamaguchi in the southernmost tip of Honshu, Japan’s main island. Known as ‘Daigingo Junmai,’ these artisanal, labor intensive sakes really showcase the brewmaster’s skill and are made with the highest quality Yamada Nishiki rice. Dassai mills the rice for their 50, 37 and finally their 23 sake, which uses rice milled to just 23% of its original size to create one of the most refined sakes in the world.

These sakes are light, complex and aromatic, so there’s a lot to explore here in terms of food pairing possibilities! We will lead a tasting of four of Dassai’s most well known sakes, paired with Western foods ranging from The Meat Hook’s lamb bacon, to cheese, mushrooms, fruit and more. You’ll have the chance to play with our selected food pairings to decide for yourself which foods best complement the sakes.

We’ll also be lucky to have some of the Sake Lees (the byproduct of fermentation) on hand to taste in a variety of ways. This delicacy is rarely tasted outside of Japan.

This is a fantastic event for the sake lover (or the sake skeptic.) Either way you’ll have plenty to taste, and plenty to talk about.

To reserve your spot, please pre-register online. Attendees must provide proof of legal drinking age for admission to the event.

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Honolulu: Joy of Sake 2012

The Joy of Sake celebrates Hawaii’s hundred-year love affair with sake—from the early days of Japanese immigration and the founding of the Honolulu Sake Brewery up to the present. Today Honolulu hosts the annual U.S. National Sake Appraisal and has more sake-serving restaurants per capita than any other city in the country.

This year The Joy of Sake moves to Pier 2 Terminal Hall, a brand-new event venue at Honolulu Harbor opposite Restaurant Row. Pleasantly air-conditioned and decorated throughout with works by Hawai’i artists, this new location, with 25,000 sq. ft. of event space, brings The Joy of Sake right into the heart of Honolulu.

Tickets can be purchased here:

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