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Don't Make Me Blush - The Flirtini

Hi everybody!  We've had a fantastic time with our later summer bar hours - finally, our guests are able to make it by our bar for a quick one, two, or three on their way to dinner or just after. While we were enjoying our supreme reign as the top...

Brewery + Distillery Tour

Home Base Spirits (Berkeley)

Originally from Oakland, twin sisters Sam (above left) and Ali Blatteis were living across the country from one another when they developed a passion for whisky. After many distillery tours, countless tastings, and their own personal studies, they launched Home Base Spirits together in the Bay Area in...

Sake Gumi News

Fukushima Days (July 2023)

Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 200 members throughout the country. Join today! Greetings Gumi folks, your whisky liaison and friendly neighborhood Dre is taking over Sake Gumi this month! It's the same feeling as when you played Pokemon Red on your...

Sake Gumi News

Sakqueso (June 2023)

Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 200 members throughout the country. Join today! Ah, June – it’s when summer break kicks in, the days are long, and the tank tops come out. And, if you’ve been a part of our little Umamiverse for a while,...

Brewery + Distillery Visit

Matsuse Brewery in Shiga

Walking into a sake brewery is like walking into someone's home. In the old days, it was customary that the kurabito (brewery workers) all stayed in shared housing at the brewery during the brewing season – people traveled from far and wide from their hometowns...

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The Art of Blending (May 2023)

Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 200 members throughout the country. Join today! These days, there has been a bit of buzz about blending for sake, with the emergence of bottles blended by legends of the wine world in Europe and Canada....

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Organic Sake (April 2023)

The rice used to make Uka sake, KR55 Koda Farms® Heirloom Organic Kokuho Rose rice is grown in California’s San Joaquin Valley Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 200+ members throughout the country. Join today! Since the start of Sake Gumi in 2015, it has been...

Sake Gumi News

Female Frontrunners (March 2023)

Hiroko Yokozawa (L), toji at Tsukinowa Shuzo and Nobuko Inaba (R), toji at Inaba Shuzo Sake Gumi is our monthly sake subscription service with 200 members throughout the country. Join today! It's March which means it's Female Frontrunner's month! Coinciding with International Women's Day and Girl's...

Event Recap

The SG Club @ Umami Mart

When we were approached to host a launch event for the new line of The SG Shochus, we were floored. Why, yes, we would honored to host Shingo Gokan and his crew! World-renowned cocktail champion, bartender extraordinaire, and founder of the SG Group and SG Shochu brand, Shingo Gokan was voted by...

Brewery + Distillery Visit

A Visit to Mutemuka Shuzo

My first brewery visit in Kochi this past month was at Mutemuka Shuzo. The next morning I went to Kameizumi Shuzo. I first learned about Mutemuka in 2018 through Floating World. I fell in love with the their Mutemuka Muroka Nama Genshu. It was lactic, mushroomy,...