Stuart - I don't think it's enough - up the ante by adding some warm sake to the cold beer and you might just get yourself a burl to play with!
Mark I guess it would depend on the time of year
FYI "Warm" sake is usually the absolute "Plonk" or crap........ Take a little trip with me
Good sake is just Rice, Water and yeast, really, that is it, the type of rice, water and yeast will all change and there are better versions of everything, so the taste of the sake will be very different, depending on what is used.
Now that is "Good" sake, like a "Real" beer, for example (sake and beer are both "Brewed").
Now the crap national brand stuff, is different, they brew it from low cost materials, and then they cut it with water, significantly, and add "brewers alcohol" to it to bring the alcohol content back up to the 16% to 18% range. This alcohol that is added is grain alcohol, as in distilled, not brewed. If you drink sake and get a splitting headache from it, this is why, this stuff is again, cheap grog.
Now this is where the "warming up" thing comes into play. When you warm up "Good Sake" you often destroy the taste of the sake, as a lot of good sake is "Nama" meaning "unpasteurized" and heating it up will boil off the alcohol content and the best tasting and smelling ingredients, thus, good sake is almost NEVER warmed up, you would not heat up your favorite pint of real ale would you? The saving grace of the cheap sake is that, well, it is cheap, but also that it is good for warming up, as the grog, distilled alcohol, the stuff that gives you a headache, is the first stuff to float away as you heat it, so heating cheap sake actually improves the taste...........most likely a LOT more than you wanted to know......
Anyways, back on track.......
........here are two pics of the burl I'm talking about, it is about 18" in diameter, and 8" (?) thick. The tree is "Sakura" which is known as "Japanese Ornamental Cherry", the ones famous for the cherry blossoms in the spring time. not too much straight timber in this tree, but lots of interesting stuff for turning for sure!
Sure Hope I get it