奥田酒造店

The Story of 奥田酒造店

Okuda Shuzoten has brewed in Daisen, Akita, since the Enpo era of the 1670s, now eighteen generations on. The brewery still draws water from a well dug at its founding, fed by groundwater from the Ou mountains. Its signature yeast, MS3, was isolated from the brewery's own ceiling beams and now anchors its most distinctive sake. The shop and main building, designed by architect Seiichi Shirai and completed in 1957, are registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, a modernist landmark wrapped around a seventeenth-century brewing lineage.