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MoIppai Wine and Drink Blog
http://www.moippai.com/blog
Snippets of news and personal ramblings about wine, beer, sake and any other alcoholic drinks I might try.
- Author: Jim Bulmer
- Listed in: Food & Drink Wine
- Tags: beer Wine sake whiskey japanese wine
Recent Posts
Kobe Wine Soap
I was reading a post at whywineblog.com about wine and skin care when I was reminded of an advert my wife found in her Japanese newspaper the other day. One of the big local winery’s Kobe Wine has started making a soap from their wine. Looking...
JAL Saves Fuel and CO2 with Plastic Wine Bottles
I read today in The Daily Yomiuri that JAL (Japanese Airlines) is replacing the glass wine bottles on their flights with lighter plastic ones. Apparently this will reduce the weight of the plane by about 37kg (for 300 bottles) which will save them 20...
My new Decanter and the Sake Bottle
I’ve been drinking wine for a few years now, but don’t have a decanter! Instead I’ve been using this great jar I bought a few years ago which is used for keeping sake cold. As you may know sake can be drunk cold (reishu) or warm (at...
Barokes canned wine - The Return
Not long ago I reviewed Barokes Canned Bubbly Red Wine and to be honest I really didn’t like it. But I felt, perhaps I was too harsh, and admittedly didn’t realise it was sparkling - ahem, should have guessed from the name perhaps - so ha...
Sake Tour of Hyogo Part One
In an hour or so, we’re about to go on a tour of the local area sake breweries. I live in Hyogo which has about 60% of the sake (nihonshu - Japanese rice wine) breweries in Japan. I thought I’d dig out an old blog post I wrote for a diffe...
Beerlike drinks in Japan hit new low price
Japan has three main kinds of beers: Normal lagers (Kirin, Asahi, etc) Happoshu (Low Malt beers – less than 67% malt and cheaper than normal lager as tax is lower) Third Category Beer (These are “Beerlike” drinks as they are called and the ing...
