by Arline Lyons | Aug 18, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
As predicted, the Japanese government started accepting applications for stockpiled rice to be released for “processing” to make products such as sake and miso on 1 August 2025. The decision was made after appeals from industry organisations. 75,000 tons...
by Arline Lyons | Jun 30, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
What to do about US tariffs? One option open to larger breweries is to simply produce in the USA, so that their sake becomes a domestic product. Nikkei business reports that big Niigata brewer Hakkaisan are considering exactly this, as it already increased prices in...
by Arline Lyons | Jun 30, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
For sake brewers (and presumably many other food and drink producers) Christmas in Japan comes at New Year. The graph above from Diamond Online shows sales of all types of sake between April 2024 and March 2025, with a massive spike in December attributed to...
by Arline Lyons | Jun 30, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
Sake brewing licenses have, in principle, not been issued for decades due to falling demand, leaving hopeful new industry entrants with no way in other than finding a dormant brewery with a licence and acquiring the company. And although there have been a few whispers...
by Arline Lyons | Jun 30, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
The National Research Institute of Brewing (NRIB) have released the English version of their outline of the 2025 Annual Japan Sake Awards (全国新酒鑑評会, sometimes translated as National New Sake Appraisal or similar). There were 809 entries this year, judged in a first...
