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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    1 day ago

    People are starting to get weirdly mad about this so I will destroy the magic and just so that no, this post was not actually made in 1993, it comes from a forum where a big gimmick is that it is perpetually the September of 1993. The post is from like, 2012 or something.

    Fucking what.





  • I’m mostly working off magazine articles, blog posts and books like David Wondrich’s “Imbibe!”. Most of the time, a simple web search with terms like “how to drink [beverage]” will yield results. e.g. for single malt whisky you can easily find articles and lengthy forum discussions over how much, if any, water to add, and plenty of articles write about what temperature to drink sake at and how to make hot sake. Though it’s always possible that something is fairly common in Japan that western bloggers are not aware of.


  • Yeah, just a few ml to take the edge off - it’s not even about the alcohol for me (I happily sip 63% ABV rum if it’s the good stuff), but about the unusual sake-specific flavor. I could probably sip a milder sake as-is, but we don’t exactly have a huge amount of choice where I live.

    Kinda sounds like it’s just something you do, which isn’t a bad thing in itself, but you wrote that as if it’s the standard way to do it.



  • Sake is meant to be sipped diluted.

    Can you elaborate on that? I’ve never seen anything about people adding water or other mixers into their sake (except the rare case of sake cocktails, which are definitely not the default way of drinking sake).

    That said, I usually add water when I drink sake, but I do that because that’s what I do with most of my alcoholic beverages; I never got the impression that this is the normal way of drinking it.


  • That’s gotta be a different gene, bourbon and rye taste like bitter wood to me (because of tannins from the cask aging) instead of the boozy vanilla that many people claim it tastes like, yet (decent) vodka tastes completely neutral to me. But I do believe that some people perceive alcohol itself as bitter while others do not.

    Do you dislike bitter flavors in general, like coffee, tea, or salad?













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