Week 4 - Sake Brewery Tour & Wrestling

すごい! What a crazy weekend! I had the chance to see two rare things, a Sake Brewery and a Japanese Pro Wrestling Event LoL...

There isn't much to say about these two events that you actually need to see it by yourself to believe it, specially for the Wrestling HaHa...

Anyway concerning the Sake Brewery we had the chance to meet Americans (most of them english teacher for Japanese students) that were organizing a Sake Tour in one of the oldest Sake Brewery of Japan. In this brewery they were still using the same methods and timings as they did long time 300 years ago. This brewery was 380 years old and had never moved yet. This comes from the most important ingredient of the Sake which is water and not rice. Rice is also very important but they import rice from the best rice farms in Japan. But water is not imported, it comes from the mountains around Kanazawa which brings the best water for the Sake. It has a lot of minerals in it and is very sacred for this brewery.

We had the chance to visit the different places where you have the sake polished and then steamed so you get a wet rice called Koji. At this point the rice transforms itself slowly to sake. You'll have to filter it and keep the rice at a certain temperature to get the best sake.

It only takes about 35 to 40 days to get sake. The best sake comes from the best water and also from the amount of polishing the rice. This means the more polished the rice is the better sake you'll get. (I don't know if my english is good, but i'm doing my best :D).

Anyway you can find old sake (5 to 30 years old) which is more like a light Whisky but it is actually rare to find it.

Finally this sunday we had the chance to attend a Pro Wrestling Event in Kanazawa. Thanks for the host-family mother of Jerome-san who invited us because her son is one of the referee in the Pro Wrestling Tour. It is so funny to watch but it was really cold because we were actually in a open stadium and the weather was cold (5 °C!)... Anyway we enjoyed it a lot!

Here are the pictures!