"Shirakami Sake Brewery" (Hirosaki City Yonegabukuro, TEL 0172-86-2106) started selling new liquor made in the original sake brewery that had been completely burned down by a fire for the first time in three years.

Shirakami Sake Brewery has been running for over 100 years in the Hirosaki/Higashimeya area at the foot of the Shirakami Mountains. The fire broke out on January 30, 2015, and burned down approximately 2000 square meters of the sake brewery attached to the office. Since then, Mr. Makoto Nishizawa, the president and Toji, rented a brewery at Rokka Shuzo (Yutaka Mukaize) and continued brewing.

This year, for the first time in three years, I started brewing again at the place where the company used to be. The newly built brewery is said to have been reduced to about one-tenth the space it used to be. Nishizawa says with a smile, "The equipment is not yet sufficient and it is literally handmade, but we finally realized it."

“In particular, we had a hard time inspecting the quality of the feed water,” he recalls. The brewery used spring water from the Shirakami Mountains on the premises, but it took time to remove impurities that were mixed in due to the fire.

Before the fire, they tried to make sake with the sake rice harvested in the Higashimeya area, aiming for "local production". “I wanted to create benefits with local producers,” said Nishizawa. It was temporarily suspended after the fire, but the idea finally came to fruition when business resumed.

This year, he plans to make 6000 liters of sake. On the same day, as the first new liquor made at Tomeya, we shipped "Shirakami no Dagu", a liquor brewed with abandoned activities. It is said that all the manufactured parts were sold out by reservation.

Nishizawa says, "We will start shipping sake from the end of March as soon as it's ready. In spring, we want to put out a limited label that matches the cherry blossoms. We want to make sake at Tomeya little by little." show.