Sake Gumi News
July 15, 2016
Sake Gumi News: Celebrate Individuality (July 2016)
July sakes ship today for Sake Gumi, our monthly sake subscription club. If you like what’s on deck here, you should join! This month we celebrated the 240th year of the U.S. of A. To commemorate this event, I thought of how I value individuality – in people and in sake. So for this month, I chose […]
June 6, 2016
Event Recap: Sake Gumi Exclusive Field Trip to Sequoia Brewery (SF)
Last Sunday, 27 Sake Gumi members took a field trip to the Bay Area’s very own sake brewery – Sequoia Sake in San Francisco. Jake Myrick, his wife Noriko Kamei, and Jake’s friend Warren Pfal started Sequoia Sake together in the lower Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco in 2014. What makes Sequoia Sake so special […]
May 18, 2016
Upcoming Event: Sake Gumi Exclusive Field Trip to Sequoia Brewery (SF)
We are excited to announce our very first field trip exclusively for Sake Gumi members. We’re going to Sequoia Sake Brewery in San Francisco! This is the City’s first sake brewery and we are thrilled to share with this opportunity to tour the site with Sequoia’s founders and sit down for a special sake tasting and food […]
May 15, 2016
Sake Gumi News: Spice it up with Sake! (May 2016)
May sakes ship today for Sake Gumi, our monthly sake subscription club. If you like what’s on deck here, you should join! The days are longer, the bees are starting to store their honey, and the lines at ice cream stores are stretching around the block here in Old Oakland. This can only mean one thing – […]
April 15, 2016
Sake Gumi News: Rice Rice Baby (April 2016)
April sakes ship today for Sake Gumi, our monthly sake subscription club. If you like what’s on deck here, you should join! To celebrate the start of rice-planting season in April, we are highlighting the most popular sake rice Yamada Nishiki. Why is it the most popular rice for sake brewing? Because of its ability to absorb […]
March 15, 2016
Sake Gumi News: Tohoku Springs Back! (March 2016)
March sakes ship today for Sake Gumi, our monthly sake subscription club. If you like what’s on deck here, you should join! On March 11, 2011, the Tohoku region was hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. As if that wasn’t enough, a tsunami that hit a maximum height of 133 ft, traveling 6 miles inland, caused […]
February 15, 2016
Sake Gumi News: Niigata Festa! (Feb 2016)
February sakes ship today for Sake Gumi, our monthly sake subscription club. If you like what’s on deck here, you should probably join! Every winter, we take a trip to Niigata Pref. where sake and rice are king. Coincidentally, it is also where we source our barware and copper kitchenware items. After the end of […]
January 15, 2016
Sake Gumi News: Bold Brews (Jan 2016)
Happy New Year! In 2015, we expanded our Oakland shop to include sakes and the largest selection of Japanese craft beers in the U.S. Then, we launched Sake Gumi in August in an effort to spread the joy of sake to those in the Bay Area and beyond. We felt that this club would be […]
December 28, 2015
Sake Gumi News: Cold Weather, Warm Gatherin gs (Dec 2015)
December is when the warmth of friends and family is there to balance the cold weather. The contrast of the cold weather outside and the toasty home-comings during the holidays is what we want to reflect in our sakes this month. Our theme for Sake Gumi this month is “Cold Weather, Warm Gatherings.†For our […]
December 14, 2015
Sake Gumi News: Turkey Times (Nov 2015)
It’s heartwarming to know that the holidays are around the corner, until the madness hits you like a ton of bricks — holiday parties, road rage and lines, lines, lines. This is Sake Gumi’s first holiday season, and we are having lots of fun selecting special edition sakes that will ease the shock and stress […]