Umeshu - Japanese Plum Wine | Shiso | Shiro - Kaga Nanko Ume

Hand select fresh ume from your garden and make umeshu, a delicious and refreshing Japanese plum liqueur.

Umeshu can be found in Korean and Japanese supermarkets, but when made fresh, they're much more flavorful, try this recipe and share me your thoughts!

Ingredients

1. Fresh Ume 2 Pounds
2. Japanese Rock Sugar (Rock Sugar Only) 1/2 Pound
3. Shōchū 750ml (26-32oz Bottle)

Kitchen
1. Sealable Jar
2. Large bowl to clean and soak
3. Fruit basket

Optional
1. Fresh Shiso Leaves, green or red
2. Umeboshi Salt (Dried Umeboshi grounded with salt and shiso)
3.Crushed or cubed ice

Ume Varieties Used
1. Shiro-Kaga, white single flowers
2. Nanko, pink semi double flowers

[aigo]

Now you need to make a video of how to plant and maintain the Ume tree!

[hieule]

Yes could you do a video of planting and maintaining the tree

[MareCha]

Hello! I am also interested in an Ume growing guide video. I hope it is still something you are working on. Thank you for your informative videos.

[tenzinszabo]

Really like the mix of content, totally agree that looking at the care of the plant and then the use of the fruit or veg would make for some compelling videos!

[magspie-kn]

love this video. Not only is it beautifully made and super chilled to watch, but it's also incredibly interesting. Those cocktails look fantastic. <3

[pi]

Damn you deserve at least 10 times more subs, keep up the good work man

[Naguzoro]

looking for more garden videos personally but I love the preserved food as well. cat content would be awesome.

[jumiduss]

Just found your channel a day ago, love the videos. Amazing video and audio quality, pacing, and I love the content. Can't see how you're not going to boom in the next year.

[watrgrl]

Wow! That looked so good! I wish I could still have alcohol but I made a choice to stop several years ago because I found out I had non alcoholic fatty liver and the next stage after that is cirrhosis if you don’t baby your liver so no more alcohol, no more acetaminophen, no more of anything that stresses the liver. I’d rather have a liver that will get me to to old age than drink alcohol so it’s a no brainer.

[Destroy]

Just found your video and not much of a drinker but each New Years here I always try and get a bottle of Umeshu to Drink for the day ( normally its the small bottles they sell at a Variety Warehouse based Store I have near me )

[miritsu]

I saw a guy like 6 months ago his channel name is "field days" and he made quality videos just like u do. Not many subscribers, he had like 10k when i found him. Now he almost got 1million subs. And i told him the same as i do to u. Just keep going with this quality content and u will get big someday. I wish u all the best and big growth in subscribers. I see you really like doing this, like gardening and so on and i wish that u will someday be able to live from ur hobbies. Keep going mate! :)

[agobelle]

I love this, I wish I could easily source the trees or the seeds in the US.

[ellisdimitri]

Nanko ume trees are actually impossible to find in Italy...i'm keep on searching. Ty for this new video!

[killerbite_]

holy fuck im in love with this channel

[KuraiShinobi]

Hey Umami Garden! I really enjoyed the video! I found it extremely thorough and insightful with all the helpful little nuggets of information.

However after watching the video, I became a bit curious. Are there other traditional and non-traditional "fruit-shus", fruit infused shochus, made in Japan?

If there are, would you happen to know the recipes for them? And if there are none, would you happen to know why are they not made with other fruits?

[TJGardens-bwws]

Love the video! I had a couple questions I was hoping you may be able to help with. I'm actually growing some ume I got as grocery store ume a few years ago and they're starting to flower and hopefully fruit. First, can I cut open the umay to remove the pits so I can grow more seeds but still use the fruit to make to make umeshu? Second, do you have any idea if there is a Japanese store I may be able to access in the US that would sell other variety of ume scions so I can graft other varieties onto my existing plants?

[lukewarmjack]

I'm curious. I know you say no sake because it's more potent. But if that's what I'm looking for is that possible. What are the possibilities to use other alcohol bases, such as vodka or whiskey.

[bengarland]

I know what umeboshi is, but what is umeboshi salt?