Co-Founder Emiko Tanabe holding up the peace sign and James Jin (in the mask) with their team. I am a proud ABJ (American Born Japanese). So when I see a new ABS (American Born Sake) on the market, I'm rooting for them. In...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout the country. Join today! As a beekeeper, I think about female-led organizations often. In particular, I find inspiration in the queen bees of my hives, leading their workers into the seasons. Although she is...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout the country. Join today! As we celebrate 10 years of Umami Mart, I want to reflect on the notion of 実家 (jikka, or hometown) and pair sakes from my own hometown, with dishes from our...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout the country. Join today! Organic, biodynamic, slow, and natural – these are buzzwords that are often used when talking about farming or wine. But how do we talk about these methods in sake-making? I've always...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout the country. Join today! As the bears start getting ready for hibernation, the bees hunker down in their hives to stock up on their stored honey, we start hanging up our hoshigaki and...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout the country. Join today! This month we bring in exclusive bottles from your favorite brewers! These are sakes from breweries that are consistently best-sellers at Umami Mart since we started selling sake in...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout the country. Join today! Who doesn’t love bubbles? For the little ones, there are bubble baths, root beer floats, and gleefully blowing and chasing bubbles in the park. For us adults, bubbles are...
Kurabito (worker) at the Akita Seishu Brewery Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout the country. Join today! This month, Kayoko and I are collaborating on the theme for Sake and Shochu Gumi, highlighting shuzo (alcohol makers) who make...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout the country. Join today! It's the summertime, and I always look forward to having grilled foods this time of year. From St. Louis BBQ to yakitori draped in tare (sweet and...
Sunset in Karatsu, Saga Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout the country. Join today! The last time I went to Saga was in 2016. There was a lot happening in my life and it was the perfect place to...
Join us June 24, 2021 at 5:30pm on Zoom! Pairing Sake + Cheese with Kevin Corcoran CCP Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout the country. Join today! This is our sixth annual Sakqueso! I look forward to this theme...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout the country. Join today! As a bartender for several years, the most common response when I would ask, “What kind of wine would you like?” would indubitably be, “Something dry.” We get this at our...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout California. Join today! Happy NamaFest! Coming out of the long brewing season that starts when rice is harvested in the fall, brewers typically release namazakes (unpasteurized sakes) in early spring. These...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout California. Join today! This year, we are celebrating Female Frontrunners in March to coincide with Girl's Day on March 3, and International Women's Day on March 8. Every year (when we...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout California. Join today! Koji is a mold used to make sake, shochu, soy sauce, mirin, and miso. Koji is the word for the mold spore itself, as well as the...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 250 members throughout California. Join today! The theme for this month came to me as I watched the bees buzzing in my backyard and 2021 was fast approaching. After learning about each of the sakes...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 200 members throughout California. Join today! These sakes have all been cooped up, as they age – just like we have this year. That’s why I feel like it's timely to explore jukuseishu, or...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 200 members throughout California. Join today! We're seeing a shift these days of brewers making sakes that are higher in acidity and experimenting with using different kojis and yeasts to create more sour...
Miyagi cuisine (l-r): oysters, Katei Gyutan Yaki, Buttered Bamboo Shoots Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 200 members throughout California. Join today! Miyagi Prefecture was one of the hardest hit areas during the 2011 Tohoku Disaster which included a...
Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 200 members throughout California. Join today! Yeast is one of the four main ingredients of sake, the others being rice, water, and koji. Yeast is very important in sake-making because as the koji is...
