Hakkaisan Brewery

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.

八海醸造は、この魚沼で酒をつくっています。そこで働くほとんどの人たちが、この魚沼で生まれ育ちました。みんなに共通していること、それは、この”魚沼”が大好きだ、ということです。

From the company's own site

How this house works

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

Strength

25 to 40 percent. That is a wider spread than most houses here.

What they distil

3 bottles here across 1 base: 2 kome (rice). 1 more sits outside the usual bases.

Ageing

2 of these are aged, 1 of them in cask.

Common to most of them

aged and light bodied, each recorded on at least half of these bottles.