Honbo Sake Brewery Co., Ltd.
Founding spirit
Honbo Sake Brewery has been around for over 100 years since its founding in 1872, and continues to carry on the ideas of its predecessors.
Honbo Matsuzaemon started his business inheriting his father Goemon's spirit of ``social service by promoting industry and industry'' from the time of turmoil shortly after the name changed to the Meiji era.
In the latter half of the Meiji period, the company began producing shochu using sweet potatoes, a specialty of Satsuma.
Honbo Sake Brewery's Satsuma Shochu
``Tsunuki Takashogura'' is the birthplace of Honbo Sake Brewery and continues to maintain traditional manufacturing methods.
Kagoshima (Satsuma) boasts the highest production volume of potato shochu in Japan, and in particular, ``Satsuma shochu'', which is given only to sweet potato shochu made in Kagoshima using Kagoshima-produced sweet potatoes, is recognized by the World Trade Organization (WTO). ) is a globally recognized brand that has received protection designation for country of origin labeling under the agreement.
Honbo Sake Brewery is particular about the materials and distillation methods used for shochu, and produces high-quality shochu in a wide variety of ways, with the passion of the brewer.
Honbo Sake Brewery's commitment
Shochu making has long been known as ``one water, two potatoes, and three koji.''
Commitment to water
Delicious shochu is made from delicious water.
The shochu made with carefully selected water, such as ``natural water from Chiran and Tsunuki, famous water from Kirishima, underground water from Yakushima, and pure pure water,'' is delicious.
Commitment to sweet potatoes
Delicious shochu is made from quality potatoes.
Shochu made with sweet potatoes is delicious.
Commitment to koji
Delicious shochu is made from good koji.
Shochu made with koji is a little different.
Commitment to technique
Delicious shochu is born from the skill of craftsmen.
Honbo Sake Brewery is committed to all techniques, including normal pressure distillation, vacuum distillation, patented polished distillation, tin pipes that only one person in Japan can make, temperature control with state-of-the-art equipment, and distillation machines that have been passed down over many years. Shochu original sake is born.
Commitment to time
Delicious shochu is sometimes refined through storage.
Honkaku shochu grows depending on the aging method and time required to grow the original sake.
This sweet potato shochu is made in Yakushima Denkura, a hand-made jar-filled warehouse surrounded by the great nature of Yakushima, an island designated as a world heritage site.
| raw materials | Sweet potato, rice malt |
|---|---|
| frequency | 25 degrees |
| capacity | 1.8L |
