八海醸造

The Story of 八海醸造

Founded in 1922 in Minamiuonuma — Niigata's legendary snow country — Hakkaisan brews beneath Mt. Hakkai under a simple creed: good sake, for everyone. Its brewing water, the Raiden spring, travels 4.2 km by conduit from the mountain, and in 1983 the brewery completed Japan's first underground storage tanks for slow, cold maturation. Today Hakkaisan is a house of fermentation in the widest sense, making beer, whisky and koji amazake alongside its famously clean sake.