Wine Meow Watch News 2021/05/26

Whether it is a declaration of a state of emergency or prevention of the spread, the fact that restaurants are required to abide by the provision of self-respect for alcohol (depending on which point of view) is Z>B may require research to measure, but the industry that has been affected in the past year Atrophy is the inability to recover in a short period of time. I think the key to the epidemic getting out of control is that you want to deal with the symptoms through self-respect, but ignore the humanity under the table is the promoter.

Eh? Drink alcohol on the train

JR West Japan Kanazawa Branch runs the sightseeing train " Hanayo no れん" between Kanazawa Station and Wakura Onsen Station every Friday to Sunday and holidays. If you take the No. 4 Hanamyo no れん bus from Wakura Onsen Station at 16:30, you can also make a reservation in advance for a Japanese side dish bento set with Japanese sake.

The four shifts on May 16 sold a total of 3 sets of ほろよいセット, 7 cans of beer, and 3 bottles of 180ml Japanese sake. The problem lies in the fact that Hanamiya no れん has obtained a restaurant business license in Kanazawa City. Since 5/16, the spread of new coronary pneumonia has been prevented. In fact, alcoholic beverages cannot be served since the implementation of key measures. This is the negligence of the staff in the company, and we can only announce an apology. Since 5/17 (the next operating day is Friday 5/21), we will stop serving alcohol on the bus, and please do not bring alcohol on the bus. For passengers who have reserved ほろよいセット meal coupons, a full refund will be given.

We are two irons and can't eat and drink on the car during the alert period. It can't be fair, and we don't have to "forget" whether it is within the scope of alcohol self-sufficiency. In fact, to put it bluntly, Taiwan Railway does not have a special train that can be used as a tourist attraction, so there is no sense of loss. Click on the link above to see the photos of the interior of hanayome no れん, you can understand that it is really sad that you can't drink on the sightseeing train during the epidemic prevention period.

Straw rope resurrection! 99% less plastic

Since ancient times, in order to pray for a bumper harvest of rice and express gratitude to the gods of heaven and earth after a bumper harvest, the rice stalks left from the ears of rice used for brewing are used to decorate sake bottles and enshrined in shrines. At this time, in order to express gratitude to the fertile land and the gods, the wine bottles were tied with straw ropes.

Kanryo Brewery Co., Ltd., located in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, has been in business for more than 500 years. In the long-to-long history of sake brewing, straw ropes are used to bind wine bottles, but in 2016, the machine for making straw ropes broke down. I had to switch to a plastic rope, but it lost the original meaning of tying the rope.

The sake brewer decided to start the "Gaoyu Resurrection Business". It took four years to repair the machine and test the manufacturing conditions of the straw rope. Next, the rope used for its own wine bottles should be replaced with straw rope, which can reduce 99% of production and sales. of plastic waste. There are also plans to sell the straw rope to external customers in the future.

When planting rice and harvesting, you will hate that the rice is too tall; when weaving straw, you will hate that the straw is too short.

Double the apple aroma! Relying on the new version of ancient road yeast

Sake smells and tastes apple-like, and it relies on ethyl caproate (カプロンacid エチル) produced by yeast during the brewing process.

From 2004 to 2006, the Industrial Technology Center of Wakayama Prefecture collected yeast suitable for sake brewing along the Kumano Kodo and the Nakabeji area of Tanabe City, and named it "Kodo Yeast". Later, in 2019, two new strains of yeast, "KODO.ec159 strain" and "KODO.ec162 strain" were successfully developed. Compared with the original ancient yeast, 159 strains can produce 8 times and 162 strains can produce 10 times the amount of ethyl hexanoate. ester, and in fiscal 2020, the two strains of yeast will be distributed to sake brewers in the prefecture.

New products brewed with new yeast include "Pacific - Yamazaki Junmai no kosei original sake -" brewed with 162 strains of Shinguichi O﨑 Sake Brewery. If you have a chance to taste sake made with new yeast, you might as well compare whether the apple taste is particularly pronounced.

Although the taste and intensity felt by each person may be different, usually when the ethyl caproate has a sufficient concentration, it will taste like apple or cantaloupe. If it feels a little more like cantaloupe, we will laugh at it and call it "Hami ".