291. Take a tour of a brewery

I visited the Takara Sake Brewery in Berkeley, California.  It was great, and they have a whole little museum full of old-timey sake making equipment.  I really liked this huge wooden barrel they had, with spigots in the side at different heights.  Their lychee-flavored sake is great!  You'd expect it to be something horrible-tasting, along the lines of watermelon-flavored vodka, but it's not; it tastes good, like real fruit.  I haven't tried all of their flavored sakes, but it's on my list of things to do.  I also liked their Nigori, which is unfiltered sake.  It's white and cloudy.