Time for a little stop for sake - at least to a place that makes the rice-based beverage. The old town of Sawara has the venerable Tokun Sake Brewery Company, established in 1825.
The place is old, mostly a collection of unfinished wood clapboard and a big brick smokestack.
Inside one of the old warehouses, now used for tours. Pretty. Some of the old branding irons, used for labeling barrels.
Old wood nirvana, a big pile of sake-making tools, from filter trays to buckets to barrels.
Some of the current sake offerings, in bottle and traditional barrel.
And then the modern reality of distribution, stacks of plastic crates.
The place is old, mostly a collection of unfinished wood clapboard and a big brick smokestack.
Inside one of the old warehouses, now used for tours. Pretty. Some of the old branding irons, used for labeling barrels.
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Some of the current sake offerings, in bottle and traditional barrel.
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