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Brewing Saké in Texas for Fun and Profit (Video)
Let's say you are an IT stud named Yoed Anis, you spent a year in Japan and decided you really like Saké, and you're back home in Austin, Texas. Since Texas, like Japan, grows lots of rice, you obviously need to start the Texas Saké Company to produce Rising Star and Whooping Crane Sakés, which you sell online and through a number of Texas restaurants and retailers. But whatever we can say in print pales beside a two-part brewery tour conducted by Toji Yoed himself, accompanied by Timothy Lord and his trusty camcorder. Yes, there's a transcription. But the video tour itself is better, even though it regretfully does not include the delightful aroma of Saké being made. (Someday, perhaps, Slashdot Studios will be equipped for Smell-O-Vision, but that's at least a few years off.)
Not typed in Kanji or Hiragana for those more pedantic than I because I am lazy
I thought it was because slashdot hates Unicode.
I've been programming computers for 30 years, and this morning I took a dump that had a wide array of browns in it. Maybe that should be a /. article?
Do you think if I went to a Sake* website, do you think they would talk about this guys IT work because he also happened to make sake?
If everything is going to qualify as news for nerds, whey not just call it dumb ass random internet stories for dumb as random people?
*note the 'e', idiot.
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I'll just note that at least in Central Texas, which has been experiencing both a drought and unprecedented growth, there are some questions as to whether or not rice farming in our part of The Great State should continue.
"This guy fits in well with Texas as a whole - do your own thing, make money at it, have fun."
And whatever you do, use highly subsidized corn, rice or wheat do do your stuff, so that we taxpayers can add our share to your success, even if we don't like your product.