We make the cocktail list at Monarch, the hippest new mixology-driven lounge in San Francisco
WRITTEN BY: Clair WRITTEN ON: January 19. 2012Break out the champagne! We’ve gotten ourselves into a really fabulous cocktail and onto a really fabulous cocktail list.. at Monarch; sexiest new lounge in SF. “The Rickshaw” is a complex cocktail that proves shochu can stand up next to its higher-proof cousins; you’ll notice many barrel-aged spirits and high-proof alcohols, and us! Check it [...]
Welcome to our newest account: Pacific Catch!
WRITTEN BY: Clair WRITTEN ON: January 10. 2012Thank you to the good people at Pacific Catch- Campbell and Pacific Catch-Corte Madera for picking us up! We love new locations, because then we get to love on the awesome places we have the privilege to call clients. Check out these awesome cocktails featuring Haamonii! And here they are in action:
Team Haamonii (harmony) shares shochu at biggest event yet!
WRITTEN BY: Clair WRITTEN ON: December 13. 2010Team Haamonii poured for both guest and vendor at Bazaar Bizarre this past Saturday, December 11th. We got a bunch of really fantastic feedback and met some wonderful people! There was a HUGE turnout (over 15,000!) at the event and we loved every second of it. Thank you to the Bazaar Bizarre staff, vendors, and [...]
It’s Summer Time! Watermelon Shochu (soju) Party Style
WRITTEN BY: Founder WRITTEN ON: May 27. 2009Brooke Burton of popular food blog Food Woolf shares her journey to Haamonii (harmony) Shochu LOVE
WRITTEN BY: Founder WRITTEN ON: May 18. 2009We’re so grateful for Brooke Burton’s (of the popular foodie blog FoodWoolf) return to shochu after a can’t forget soon enough experience with traditional shochu and subsequent inspirational creativity in putting together what is one of the most beautiful cocktails using Haamonii (harmony) Shochu to date – the Salted Plum Haamonii Shochu Recipe! Salted plum [...]
Ginsing Shochu (soju) in Los Angeles
WRITTEN BY: Founder WRITTEN ON: April 27. 2009With its versatility, shochu (soju) can be enjoyed in so many ways. On the rocks it can be sipped straight, with a splash of fresh squeezed juice, or even a splash of oolong tea (or any tea for that matter). We see this delicious variation in Los Angeles, where shochu is served with infused ginsing.
Haamonii shochu (soju) awarded gold medal by judges that voted Grey Goose world’s best vodka
WRITTEN BY: Founder WRITTEN ON: November 27. 2008International Review of Spirits Award: Gold Medal – “…A very pleasant mixing shochu for juicy cocktails or on its own.” We’re honored that Haamonii Smooth shochu (soju) been awarded an international gold medal for taste by the same judges that voted Grey Goose world’s best vodka the Beverage Testing Institute (BTI)! Here are the tasting [...]
San Francisco Chronicle: “Move Over Vodka, Here Comes Shochu (soju)” Article
WRITTEN BY: Founder WRITTEN ON: October 20. 2008“…Haamonii Smooth and Haamonii Smooth lemon. These were the favorites among two Food and Wine staff tasters who found both to be light and smooth, with a hint of sweetness.” As you can imagine, we were very excited about the article that was printed in the San Francisco Chronicle last Friday, 10/17. Of course, we [...]
Nation’s Restaurant News Article: Shochu’s (soju) growing appeal has its early proponents in high spirits
WRITTEN BY: Founder WRITTEN ON: July 11. 2008ARTICLE: Shochu’s growing appeal has its early proponents in high spirits EXCERPTS: “Shochu hasn’t yet followed tequila and cachaca into the mainstream of American spirits, but proponents say it’s just a matter of time until the eminently mixable Japanese liquor makes the jump from ethnic obscurity to bar staple. It has a lot going for [...]
Soju (shochu) will be a new word on Websters dictionary in 2008 update!
WRITTEN BY: Founder WRITTEN ON: July 9. 2008Talk about increasing popularity. Soju (shochu) is now going to be a new word within Merriam-Websters dictionary!


