Comments on: Sake: Learning to Make Sake at Kitagawa Honke Sake Brewery in Fushimi – Part 3 http://kyotofoodie.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fkyotofoodie.com%2Fsake-learning-to-make-sake-at-kitagawa-honke-sake-brewery-in-fushimi-part-3%2F&seed_title=Sake%3A+Learning+to+Make+Sake+at+Kitagawa+Honke+Sake+Brewery+in+Fushimi+%26%238211%3B+Part+3 Dedicated to the culinary culture of Kyoto, Japan. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Mark Mayer http://kyotofoodie.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fkyotofoodie.com%2Fsake-learning-to-make-sake-at-kitagawa-honke-sake-brewery-in-fushimi-part-3%2F&seed_title=Sake%3A+Learning+to+Make+Sake+at+Kitagawa+Honke+Sake+Brewery+in+Fushimi+%26%238211%3B+Part+3/comment-page-1/#comment-1788 Mark Mayer Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:37:11 +0000 http://kyotofoodie.com/sake-learning-to-make-sake-at-kitagawa-honke-sake-brewery-in-fushimi-part-3/#comment-1788 I love this series. I was lucky to attend a conference in Kyoto about 12 years ago, and had some wonderful food. Everyday at the conference I had a soba dish (hot) with a piece of dried fish in it (saba?) which I really liked. One detail about sake 3: "The vat is filled with carbon monoxide, produced naturally from the fermentation. I put my head inside and inhaled deeply" You would be dead! Carbon monoxide is what comes out of the exhaust of cars - due to incomplete combustion. Yeast does a better job and turns sugar into carbon dioxide - not a killer at low concentrations, but still will give you a nasty kick. I love this series. I was lucky to attend a conference in Kyoto about 12 years ago, and had some wonderful food. Everyday at the conference I had a soba dish (hot) with a piece of dried fish in it (saba?) which I really liked.

One detail about sake 3: “The vat is filled with carbon monoxide, produced naturally from the fermentation. I put my head inside and inhaled deeply” You would be dead! Carbon monoxide is what comes out of the exhaust of cars – due to incomplete combustion. Yeast does a better job and turns sugar into carbon dioxide – not a killer at low concentrations, but still will give you a nasty kick.

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