A climate characterized by lheavy snowfall. Abundant sources of clean, soft water.
The serious and dedicated character of workers raised in snow country.
Hakkaisan Brewery, situated in a region that seems uniquely blessed with all of the elements necessary to brew good sake,
has reached its 100th anniversary.
Throughout our company’s long history, sake brewing has always been our central focus.
When it comes to sake, Hakkaisan Brewery has a greater passion than any other producer,
which is why we’ve expanded our endeavors beyond sake into other fields as well.
Based on lessons learned in our hometown of Uonuma through its natural blessings and culture, we identify the defining
elements of each region in the world where we do business and strive to foster new value there.
A century’s worth of techniques and knowledge in rice and koji cultivation right here in Uonuma, as well as the local supplies of pure, soft water, have given birth to delightful new flavors and brought people joy.
We are on a mission—a mission that knows no pause or delay.
Here from our home in Uonuma, Hakkaisan Brewery delivers moving experiences like none other.
Now, we embark on our next 100 years of history with unshakable determination.
After the passing of Koichi in 1953, Kazuo Nagumo took over day-to-day company operations at the age of twenty-five.
This young company president was assisted by his wife Ai,
Yoshigoro Tomidokoro who handled finances, Takao Maruyama who helped out with brewery work in general,
and Haruo Takahama who took on the job of toji (head brewer) in 1958.
Together, this team of five, who were all still in their twenties, laid the foundations for today’s Hakkaisan Brewery.
With a singular and unwavering focus, they pursued high-quality sake featuring well-balanced, smooth-and-refreshing
flavor that was intended to be enjoyed during meals.
The Hakkaisan Brewery Group’s goal is to ensure that ours is a company which has no end.
To accomplish this, we take on new challenges and pursue growth and change in a bold and continual manner.
The Group’s corporate logo serves as a symbol of the global future we envision for ourselves and are determined to achieve.
This special, commemorative sake is the crystallization of 100 years of growth and perseverance in sake brewing. A high-quality daiginjo-grade sake achieved through full utilization of our brewers’ most refined skills and passion for their craft, it features an elegant roundness of flavor that invokes mental images of a finely polished sphere, subtle hints of the characteristic ginjo-type aromatic properties, and a deep-reaching and well-matured flavor achieved through six years of aging at subzero temperatures.
With the goal of making Japanese sake a global standard beverage beloved by people of all nations, Hakkaisan Brewery has established a long-term partnership with America’s Brooklyn Kura, which shares ideas, goals and approaches to doing business that are similar to our own. This fall, its members in New York will begin sake brewing operations using locally sourced ingredients.
Amazake (also spelled amasake) is a traditional, sweet-tasting, fermented-rice health drink made using sake brewing techniques. We have successfully registered Amazake made from Koji as a functional food product that is permitted to be labeled as such. As a producer of amazake made using koji-kin mold (an important ingredient in the sake brewing process as well), we intend to continue our research into health-related functions and safety in food products.
Hakkaisan Brewery is making one-of-a-kind rice-grain whisky using high-quality water from Minamiuonuma, proven distillation techniques, and oak barrels for the aging process. This represents a new frontier for our brewery, founded on our deep-reaching experience in honkaku-grade shochu distilling using ingredients such as rice and sake lees.