Fukuoka福岡県
Barley and sake lees, on the way north out of Kyushu.
6 bottles here · 4 producers · Mugi (barley), Shochu
Fukuoka is better known for sake and for ramen than for shochu, but it makes barley shochu on the Chikugo plain, which is barley country, and it is where several long-aged unfiltered barley bottlings come from.
It is also a centre for kasutori shochu, distilled from sake lees. A sake brewery that presses its rice ends up with kasu, and a distillery next door turns it into a spirit that carries the ginjo aroma of the original sake. At least one bottle in this catalogue is a sake brewery in Niigata sending its lees to a Fukuoka distillery to be distilled, because the licence and the still are here.
Producers here
- Beniotome Shuzo1 bottle
- Kitaya1 bottle
- Nishiyoshida Shuzo1 bottle
- Takahashi Shoten Distillery1 bottle
A producer is linked only where a page on their own domain was read while researching one of their bottles. The rest have no link rather than a guessed one.
