True Sake Newsletter No. 263 x Kome Collective Take Over! - To 2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣!
Welcome to this history-making July newsletter! 250 years of the US of A, 263 issues of True Sake’s Newsletter, 25 years of importing sake for what is now known as KOME COLLECTIVE, who also holds the honor of hosting the first ever TRUE SAKE Newsletter Takeover! In this issue, learn a little about how Kome Collective came to be, dive deep into a couple underdog brews with Monica and our forever sensei John Gauntner, and take sake to Southeast Asia with KJ and Bella’s experiments pairing Yuho and Thai cuisine. We’ve also got a rundown of New Store Arrivals, Best Practices for Sake in the Great Outdoors, True Sake’s first BALLER KOSHU, and, of course, a SECRET WORD sake… a Daiginjo, because Summer is for Celebrating!
- Kome Collective: Grit, Gumption, and Generations of Ginjo!
- SAKE DAY: The Kome Collective Quotient!
- Sake Spotlight: A Closer Look at Kojimaya Untitled & Daishinshu Equilibrium
- Sake and Camping: The Pairing You Didn't Know You Needed
- Taste With Bella & KJ: Yuho and Thai Food!
- Back in Stock: Mana 1751, Shiokawa Cowboy, Ginga Shizuku Divine Droplets, Rihaku
- Origin of Purity Namazake
- In-Store Saturday Tastings – Chris Presents July Tastings of Note Including Kome Collective
- The Gauntner Gauntlet – Takatenjin’s “Soul of the Sensei”
- “Baller Sake” – Mantensei 1989