Hamada 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.

明治元年にいちき串木野市に蔵を構え、この地とともに歩んでまいりました。

From the company's own site

How this house works

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

Strength

24 to 40 percent. 1 publishes no strength. That is a wider spread than most houses here.

What they distil

6 bottles here across 2 bases: 5 imo (sweet potato) and 1 mugi (barley).

Koji

white and black koji all appear across these bottles, which is usually where the difference between them starts.

Ageing

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