Yamahoshi Junmai

From the "6 Great Poets" brewery of Yamagata, Rokkasen is a young brewery, formed, and re-formed, variously, between 1972 and 1992, by 6 young toji from local breweries in and about the spa town of Higashine. Not much I could glean about this bottling, certainly not which rice variety was milled to 60% here. It tasted like Dewa San San, but the telltale sticker was not there. Still, highly perfumed and fruity, with slightly exaggerated sweetness stacked on top of layers of mineral, starch, and clean acidity. With the sweetness, it might be a bit much to drink a lot of, even at a modest 14.5% abv, but made for a nice after-dinner sup.