Sake Handbook: All the information you need to become a Sake Expert! - Softcover

John Gauntner

 
9780804834254: Sake Handbook: All the information you need to become a Sake Expert!

Synopsis

A compact guidebook to Japan's national beverage, The Sake Handbook is the perfect introduction to the history, brewing, and merits of a variety of sake. Gauntner gives readers all the information they need to become sake experts. Now revised with updated sake recommendations and pubs, this book includes a detailed explanation of the sake brewing process and profiles of over fifty Japanese izakaya (sake pubs) in Tokyo. There are also reviews of over one hundred sake brands, sake labels for easy identification and a list of specialty liquor shops throughout Japan, with addresses and phone numbers, where readers can purchase hard-to-find sake brands.

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About the Author

John Gauntner is recognized as the world's leading non-Japanese sake expert. A longtime Japan resident, he is well known among sake brewers and others within the sake industry. He wrote the Nihonshu Column in the Japan Times for many years before writing a weekly column on sake in Japanese for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's and the world's most widely distributed Japanese newspaper. in 2006, John received the Sake Samurai award, the first year it was awarded. He has published five books on sake.

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ISBN 10:  0804821135 ISBN 13:  9780804821131
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 1998
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