FU-KI

Christina Ann Graves

AGENDA:

~ A Little Information

~ Ingredients

~ Brewing

~ How to Drink Sake

~ Drink Recipes

~ Questions

~ Fu-Ki translates as “Rich & Noble.”

~ Produced in Japan by Godo Shusei Company Ltd. (founded in 1924)

~ Fu-Ki Plum wine and Sake are the quintessential representatives of Japanese culture.

~ Crafted using age-old traditional methods and the finest local ingredients.

~ Sake can only be produced in the cold winter months, the time of the year most suitable to fermentation.

~ The famed mineral-rich Miyamizu water used in the process is regarded as one of the best natural ingredients available.

A LITTLE INFORMATION:

INGREDIENTS:

Rice (米 )

~ Shuzo kotekimai (sake rice)

~ Shinpaku (starch)

~ There are at least 80 types of sake rice in Japan.

Water (水 )

Clean water

Groundwater or Well Water

Fu-Ki Sake is brewed with famed mineral-rich water, regarded as the purest available.

INGREDIENTS CONTINUED:

Koji (麹 )

~ Enzyme essential to break down the starch (no koji, no sake!)

~Koji muro (special room)

Perfect rice koji is precious and carefully guarded by sake brewers.

BREWING:

Polishing off the outer husk,Sake loses 30% of the rice

to ensure better taste.

~ Polished to remove proteins and oils from the grains.

~ Washed clean of rice powder and steeped in water.

~ Steamed cooked.

~ Koji-kin is mixed into the steamed rice.

~ Yeast and water are mixed with the Koji.

~ Steamed rice, fermented rice, and water are added to form Moromi (the Main Mash).

~ Moromi ferments for 2-3 weeks.

~ Extracted through a filtering process.

~ Carbon filtered and pasteurized.

~ Allowed to rest and mature.

~ Diluted with water.

HOW TO DRINK SAKE:

A traditional Japanese serving set

consists of a tokkuri (left) which is often submerged in boiling water to warm the sake and Ochoko (right)

small cups for sake sipping.

Chilled or at Room Temperature: ~ 2 -3 hours in the fridge

Warm: ~ Pour into a Tokkuri with water ~ Place the Tokkuri into a pan of hot water.

Pour for others, not yourself.

Note: Sake oxidizes slowly. After opening it can be stored in the refrigerator for at least one month.

DRINK RECIPES:

http://fukisake.com/cocktails/rising-sun

QUESTIONS?

REFERENCES:

http://fukisake.com/

http://www.geminispiritswine.com/fu-ki.asp