{"id":171,"date":"2009-02-13T18:33:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T22:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sakayanyc.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php\/sake-brewing-firsthand\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T18:33:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T22:33:29","slug":"sake-brewing-firsthand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sakayanyc.com\/blog\/sake-brewing-firsthand\/","title":{"rendered":"Sake Brewing Firsthand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mukune.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daimon Shuzo<\/a> sake brewery President and Master Brewer Yasutaka Daimon and a handful of sake souls including True Sake&#8217;s Beau Timken and Sake Handbook author John Gauntner, the Mukune International Sake Brewing Program, a revolutionary new sake education program, was born this February 9.\u00c2\u00a0 Yours truly will be among the fortunate fifteen this first year to actively participate as a <em>kurobito<\/em> (sake brewery worker) for a week in early March.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the four week-long sessions will allow six interns the opportunity to live and work in the Mukune Brewery in a small village outside of Osaka making sake.<\/p>\n<p>You can check in on the real time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mukune.com\/internship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a> of these first interns as they learn firsthand about the craft that creates the beverage that we all enjoy so much.\u00c2\u00a0 The first session is now in progress and I&#8217;ll be blogging in this space when our session (#2) begins on March 9.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a sake enthusiast, you won&#8217;t want to miss this unprecedented insight into the cloistered world of sake brewing.<\/p>\n<p>Kanpai!<\/p>\n<p>Rick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Daimon Shuzo sake brewery President and Master Brewer Yasutaka Daimon and a handful of sake souls including True Sake&#8217;s Beau Timken and Sake Handbook author John Gauntner, the Mukune International Sake Brewing Program, a revolutionary new sake education program, was born this February 9.\u00c2\u00a0 Yours truly will be among the fortunate fifteen this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brewers","category-basic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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