Ebisu Shuzo

In their own words

Quoted as the company wrote it, in Japanese. Translating a house's account of itself would make the words ours rather than theirs.

薬屋を営む家に生まれた「荻竹次郎」は、医学習得のため長崎に遊学中、近代酒造技術の祖と云われる「梶山儀四郎」氏と宿舎を共にしたことを機に意気投合し、酒造りに強く興味を抱くようになりました。やがては酒造りを志すこととなり、故郷の杷木に帰ると弟の芳太郎や親戚の協力を得るなどして念願であった酒蔵「荻酒場」を創業しました。

From the company's own site

How this house works

Counted from the bottles below, not written about the company.

Strength

Every one that publishes a strength is 25 percent. Most houses here spread their bottles across a range; this one does not.

Ageing

2 of these are aged.

What they distil

2 bottles here, every one of them mugi (barley).