Gekkeikan Josen Sake

Brewed by Gekkeikan Sake Company (Japan)
Style: Saké - Futsu-shu
KYOTO Prefecture, Japan

Serve in Guinomi, Masu, Ochoko

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Bottle from Wegmans Leesburg - 0/3 on the saki front. Served cold, pours clear water with a floral meaty thing going on. Taste made me do my skunky beer face. Nuff said.

Bottle from Wegman’s Leesburg. Pours clear with no head. Smells like ass. Tastes like shit. I’ve been told the face I made while drinking this was similar to the face you make when you’re kicked in the nuts. Pass!

While I can’t say this is the first sake I’ve tried, this is the first one I’ve tried to rate. Small bottle (180ml) with a white plastic cup that I almost threw away before realizing what the intent was. Very clear liquid, just a light champagne tint. I smell a musty blend of chardonnay, vinegar, and alcohol... uh oh, getting aprehensive about this first sip. After taking a couple small sips, I am intrigued by the softness, yet still dry impact to my senses. Not much of a ’flavor’ at all, but the taste is more what one would expect after having half a dozen ice cubes melt in it first - watery. The alcohol is hidden by this watered-down effect, but still prevails. There has got to be a better way to spend 4.99

180 ml bottle (heated) to snifter. Looks decent; clear and still. Smells of moonshine, vodka, and fermented rice. Tastes like it smells, but gentler. Average on the palate. Better than I expected.

’bout as elegant
as a baboon in dawn’s haze
wrecking teddybears

(From cute 180mL glass bottle with plastic cup, As Sake Gekkeikan Cap-Ace @ home)

6.1oz bottle -pours like water. Nose is moonshine and boozy. Flavor is faint moonshine with water. Light sweetness. Light burning sensation down the pipes. If it were four times stronger, I could dig it.

I don’t know sake at all...but this has been in my fridge for years and I appreciate all things fermented. This is horrible. I had a friend pour this cap-shot for me in semi traditional custom. This was horrible. Shooting (if not sipping) something 3x, 4x, 5x is no problem, but this was absolutely horrible. Is it a bad beverage..who knows. also, I hate when dumb-@sses rate beverages that I love, so all due respect. I truly hated this. And for a fermented rice based beverage, this should be in the realm that my tastebuds can understand. all due respect. - and now I sound like I’m from New Jersey. I felt that this was horrible but am not a valid judge. As is the interenets.

In the wake of tornadoes,
My old Suburban and I
Make our way to a Whole Foods
When a sake caught my eye!

A rating of the sake,
By itself, as a single rate
Is not significant in point,
But I dare not tempt wrath of fate.

This will be my second sake.
This can only broaden my palate
A fairly new venture for me,
‘Cause, fuck you, I have a palate.

The bottle is small and cute,
A plastic lid covers the twist cap.
I’m not sure as to why.
It closes both ways, like a snap.

Poured into Jester King Snifter
I can make out nothing but water.
There is no head to speak of.
Perhaps I should drink this hotter?

With a stink in my eye and nose,
I inhale more deeply.
Greeted by fruit and pine needles,
Then the alcohol comes swiftly.

The taste is not so pleasant.
It is hot without much more.
Maybe some rice flavors here,
But there’s alcohol galore.

The finish lingers a while
Like a bad dream of sorts.
The whole, long experience
I liken to wearing jorts.

Another tick for me.
A ticker’s life can expect
So many many drinks to be had
Some are not so abject.

Then again, it would be
That this was not so rough,
I’m just feeling dramatic,
So I will finish with a huff!

A little tough to get down. It was convenient with the cup-lid. Watery alcohol without much complexity or flavor. Pretty much what you would expect in this price and presentation.

Cute little bottle which I guess would be great to sneak into your bento. Pours clear, water like, though there is just enough viscosity that it doesn’t look like water when swirled about. Soft sweet rice on the nose, not the most elegant of sake aromas, but this is clearly not the most elegant of sake. That’s fine. Slightly sweet, bracing alcohol comes quickly, definitely boozy. Hot on the finish, a little more sweet sticky rice. Not great, not terrible though. Probably a bit better than the average ratings would suggest. Cheap serviceable sake. Worth a couple bucks for the novelty.