Minamiaizu’s award winning sakes are renowned across Japan and use locally sourced water and rice to make their sake. The breweries use traditional methods that have been mastered over generations to produce their delicious sake.
Kaitou Otokoyama Sake Brewery 開当男山酒造
Cold climate in Minamiaizu town is good for brewing sake. Kaitou Otokoyama Brewery uses traditional methods that have been mastered over 300 years, generations to produce their delicious sake.
To visit Kaitou Otokoyama Sake Brewery, click here.
Kokken Sake Brewery 国権酒造
Kokken Brewery” established in 1877, we only produce high-quality sake. The Junmai Ginjo “Kokken” is produced using methods from master brewer Yoshihiro Sato and has been awarded the Gold Prize at the Annual Japan Sake Awards for the 12th straight years(2008-2019), furthermore took the top prize of “Junmai ginjo” category of the Fukushima Prefecture New Sake Contest. We cautiously select the type of sake rice, and utilizes the clean and tasty Oku Aizu water to brew it carefully and honestly.
Aizu Brewery, with its 330 years history. The storehouse from the Edo era has no temperature difference throughout the year and is good for brewing sake at low temperature fermentation over a long period of time. The water is extremely soft water drawn from 40 m underground, its quality flavor is beautiful by soft and mellow.
Hanaizumi Sake Brewery “Sake brewing reflecting the region and the maker’s passion”
With local superior quality rice and natural mineral water (called Takashimizu), they brew original Japanese sake “HANAIZUMI” and “ROMAN”. All the brewery members live in Minamiaizu. They love the land and brew harmoniously with smiles on their faces.
The biggest feature of their brewing is “Mochi-gome Yodan Jikomi(Four stages of mochi-rice process)”. Ordinarily, sake is made by three steps. But they have one more step, add mochi-rice into MOROMI after the 3rd process. Due to this traditional method, their sake has an original unique gentle and sweet taste & good UMAMI.
Kaitou Otokoyama Sake Brewery 開当男山酒造
Cold climate in Minamiaizu town is good for brewing sake. Kaitou Otokoyama Brewery uses traditional methods that have been mastered over 300 years, generations to produce their delicious sake.
To visit Kaitou Otokoyama Sake Brewery, click here.
Kokken Sake Brewery 国権酒造
Kokken Brewery” established in 1877, we only produce high-quality sake. The Junmai Ginjo “Kokken” is produced using methods from master brewer Yoshihiro Sato and has been awarded the Gold Prize at the Annual Japan Sake Awards for the 12th straight years(2008-2019), furthermore took the top prize of “Junmai ginjo” category of the Fukushima Prefecture New Sake Contest. We cautiously select the type of sake rice, and utilizes the clean and tasty Oku Aizu water to brew it carefully and honestly.
To visit Kokken Sake Brewery, click here.
Aizu Sake Brewery 会津酒造
Aizu Brewery, with its 330 years history. The storehouse from the Edo era has no temperature difference throughout the year and is good for brewing sake at low temperature fermentation over a long period of time. The water is extremely soft water drawn from 40 m underground, its quality flavor is beautiful by soft and mellow.
To visit Aizu Sake Brewery, click here.
Hanaizumi Sake Brewery 花泉酒造
Hanaizumi Sake Brewery “Sake brewing reflecting the region and the maker’s passion”
With local superior quality rice and natural mineral water (called Takashimizu), they brew original Japanese sake “HANAIZUMI” and “ROMAN”. All the brewery members live in Minamiaizu. They love the land and brew harmoniously with smiles on their faces.
The biggest feature of their brewing is “Mochi-gome Yodan Jikomi(Four stages of mochi-rice process)”. Ordinarily, sake is made by three steps. But they have one more step, add mochi-rice into MOROMI after the 3rd process. Due to this traditional method, their sake has an original unique gentle and sweet taste & good UMAMI.
To visit Hanaizumi Sake Brewery, click here.
Minamiaizu’s Sake Online Store
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