This is my interview with Rick Young representing Hayashi Brewery (sake producer) while attending the Texas Restaurant Association Trade Show in San Antonio in July of 2024. It’s the fourth of a series of interviews from that trade show. We taste through their line of sakes including one named after him!

Links for the show:

Hayashi Brewery (Minotengu) – Official website for them though it’s in Japanese only – https://www.minotengu.co.jp

Wikipedia – Glossary of sake terms – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_sake_terms

Wikipedia – Sake –  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sake

Wikipedia – Amazake – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazake

National Research Institute of Brewing (Official Japanese Government site concerning Sake – English verison) – https://www.nrib.go.jp/English/

National Research Institute of Brewing – A Comprehensive Guide to Japanese Sake (everything you need to know about sake. All diagrams come from here) – https://www.nrib.go.jp/English/sake/pdf/guidesse01.pdf

My Sake Series from 2021 (I probably should redo this at some point):

Freestyle Friday – Sake Part 1 – Episode #39 – https://wineworldtv.com/wwtv/2021/04/23/freestyle-friday-sake-part-1-episode-39

Freestyle Friday – Sake Part 2 – Episode #41 – https://wineworldtv.com/wwtv/2021/04/30/freestyle-friday-sake-part-2-episode-41

Freestyle Friday – Sake Part 3 – Episode #43 – https://wineworldtv.com/wwtv/2021/05/07/freestyle-friday-sake-part-3-episode-43