Machida Sake Brewery Sato no Akebono Brown Sugar 25% 1.8L Brown Sugar Shochu

Amami brown sugar shochu ``Sato no Akebono'' has marked a new era in the long history of Amami brown sugar shochu as a drink with a pleasant taste that is popular among women.

History of brown sugar shochu

During the Edo period, a Satsuma clan official named Nagoya Sagenta was exiled to the island (in front of the present-day Kojuku Agricultural Cooperative Branch) and left behind a book called ``Minamijima Miscellaneous Stories,'' in which he wrote about ``shochu manufacturing methods.'' It describes how to make shochu.

In the original text of Minamijima Zaswa, it is written that ``Shochu is made from anything like mulberries, shiitake nuts, or sugar.There are various types of shochu made from rice,'' and brown sugar shochu has been around since at least before the Edo period. is thought to have existed.

However, the situation seems to have changed completely in 1609 when Amami was brought under the control of the Satsuma domain.

As a side note, it is said that the Satsuma clan sold brown sugar collected from Amami to Osaka merchants to obtain military funding and build the foundation of the Satsuma clan.

However, it is clear from literature that shochu was produced after the late Meiji period, and although it was strictly for private use, shochu manufacturers for the purpose of selling shochu were born in 1912, and by 1923, there were 33 companies. It seems that it existed.

Brown sugar, the main ingredient of brown sugar shochu

Brown sugar is made from sugar cane, and the production of brown sugar in Amami dates back to 1605, when a man named Satoshi Naokawa, who lived in Yamato Village, encountered a typhoon while traveling to the Ryukyus and washed ashore in Fujian Province, China. Five years later, in 1610, sugarcane, which had been banned in China, was brought back home by hiding it in a double-sided bag and making a prototype in Yamato Village.As the climate was suitable, brown sugar spread throughout Oshima County. It is said that the production of