by Arline Lyons | May 18, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
Dassai may have reached space first, but Kikumasamune are not far behind. The large Nada brewery has signed a memorandum of understanding with biotech/microscope company IDDK to use its “Micro Bio Space LAB” platform to investigate the effects of the space...
by Arline Lyons | May 18, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
On the subject of sake brewery succession and economics… would you like to invest in one? The Nihonshu Capital company has started using an investment crowdfunding site named Securite (セキュリテ) to finance sake breweries and shochu distilleries. Representative...
by Arline Lyons | May 17, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
What makes a sake brewery successful? What separates the likes of Dassai from breweries struggling to stay in the black? That question took controversial Japanese entrepreneur hiroyuki (founder of 2ch) to venerable Katayama Shuzō in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture. The...
by Arline Lyons | Apr 30, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
Thought Bordeaux was nothing but wine? Think again! Thomas Oda, originally from Tokyo, took a winding route via Limerick, Dublin and the UK before falling for wine and moving to Bordeaux. Working in the wine industry had also reintroduced him to sake, so when a job...
by Arline Lyons | Apr 30, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
Hiroshima is famous in the sake world for two things: incredibly soft water and figuring out to brew with it, a low-temperature technique developed by local hero Senzaburo Miura which eventually evolved into what we know today as ginjō style brewing. (While his friend...
