Sacramento Sake Shochu & Awamori Society

Our first event. Your first pour.
Junmai means pure rice sake no added alcohol, no additives, just the four ingredients Japan has been perfecting for over a thousand years. We are tasting three distinct Junmai sakes from three Japanese breweries side by side.
Traditional kikijoko tasting cups. 90 minutes. Good company. No sake knowledge required. Only curiosity. Sacramento Sake Shochu & Awamori Society

We tasted Junmai. Now we're going deeper and it gets better from here.
Ginjo sake is what happens when a brewer decides that good isn't good enough.
Lighter. More fragrant. More alive in the glass.
We'll taste expressions of that philosophy side by side. Junmai Ginjo — pure rice, nothing else, unapologetic. And Ginjo — where a precise touch of distilled alcohol opens the aromatics into something almost floral, almost electric.
Same polish ratio. Completely different personalities. Hopefully you're going to have a favorite by the end of the night and you're going to want to argue about it. Good. That's exactly the point.
Three pours. Three breweries. Stories behind each one. Traditional kikijoko tasting cups — the same vessels Japanese brewers use to judge their own sake. 90 minutes. Good people. Zero pretension.
If you made it to our first event you already know the vibe. If you didn't — this is your second chance and you really shouldn't miss it twice.
No sake knowledge required. Just show up ready to taste something exceptional.