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KOMATSU Brewery
Komatsu Shuzo is a small sake brewery located in northern Saga Prefecture. It is surrounded by mountains and blessed with a natural environment. We are committed to traditional hand-crafted sake brewing, and we carry out the entire process by hand. The brewers are particular about their sake, and the customers are particular about drinking it. That is the sake of Komatsu Shuzo.
We hope you enjoy our hand-crafted sake, which we have made with all our heart.
Karatsu City is located in the northwestern part of Saga Prefecture, and is a place of great natural beauty, surrounded by the Genkai Sea to the north and the Tenzan Mountains to the south.
Our company is located in the town of Ouchi, which is surrounded by the “Mikairi Waterfall”, said to be the best in Kyushu, and the “Warabino Terraced Rice Fields”, said to be the largest in Japan and said to have been in existence since the Muromachi period.
In the spring of 1995, Daisuke Komatsu, the eldest son who was living in Tokyo, quit his job and returned to his hometown to help his family's sake brewery, which was on the verge of closing down. Determined to revive the brewery, he set about reviving it in a new, compact style that was almost unheard of at the time: the brewery owner himself as the chief brewer.
Believing that “in the future, if you don't know how to make sake, you won't be able to sell it”, he entered the National Research Institute of Brewing (formerly the National Tax Agency Brewing Research Institute), which had been relocated to Hiroshima, and studied sake brewing theory for eight months. The following winter, he trained as a brewer at a sake brewery in Shimane Prefecture, and mastered the entire sake brewing process. Then, in the spring of 1997, he began preparations by cleaning the brewery, and in January of the following year, he resumed production for the first time in eight years. In March, he successfully brewed 80 koku of sake and 20 koku of shochu.
1489 Senzoku, Ouchi-machi, Karatsu-shi, Saga 849-3211 TEL 0955-62-2408