ONE STEP CLOSER…

Woo! Check out our first tank in the New Space

While we’ve made a lot of progress in the drawing stages and are currently finalizing our buildout plans, it was so exciting to finally see some physical change in the new brewery. Our first tank! It’s 6x the size of the tanks we’ve been using up until now, and we can’t wait to fill it to the top with sake.

The rest of the tanks won’t arrive until after construction is finished, so stay tuned for updates as we go!

This month was full of eventS

We kicked off April with our 2nd Anniversary celebration at Mika, and want to thank everyone that came out to support and party with us. It was so much fun! Photos from our friends at Artifact Film.

A week after that, we introduced our very first collaboration bottle at an awesome event held by Bin Bin Sake and Rule of Thirds. This months-long collaboration began with Brooklyn Kura’s head brewer, Brandon Doughan’s idea to celebrate the great asset that New York City has - the water! It makes incredible pizza and bagels - and sake. The mash starter for this collab, or Moto, was made at KSW and fermented for two weeks before we jumped in an Uber across Brooklyn and poured it into a fermentation tank at Brooklyn Kura. We built the mash together (and had a great lunch from Japan Village) and the rest was taken care of by Brooklyn Kura's team. A few weeks later, after the fermentation completed, we went back and bottled together (followed by another great lunch of course). ⁠
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The result? A beautiful Junmai, showcasing the characters of both Brooklyn Kura and KSW in one unique bottle. They’re available at Brooklyn Kura’s taproom, as well as at Bin Bin Sake while supplies last. We aren’t able to sell the bottle at our brewery, but we have some samples for you to taste when you come in, so please try it out and let us know what you think!

Then a week after that, we got to join in on an event with Hannah Kirshner, in celebration of her book, ‘Water, Wood & Wild Things’ - a story about community, rituals, and the culture behind Japanese sake brewing. Hannah and Shinobu guided us through a tasting, sake education, and conversation between brewers. We even got to make miso cured eggs with our Sake Kasu, one of many delicious recipes found in her beautiful book- which you can find here! Thank you to Hannah, Mofad and Ace Hotel Brooklyn for having us.

BUBBLY IS BACK AT THE BREWERY!

If you’ve stopped by the brewery recently, or followed James’ social media updates on our account… you probably noticed that we’ve been extremely low on stock recently. While we’re producing at max capacity now, we tend to sell out on a weekly basis (hence the expansion!). Yet, we’ve heard you, and James has officially convinced us to allocate more sake for him to sell at the brewery over the weekends. While we can’t promise they’ll stay on the shelf for long, we’ve even stocked him up with some Bubbly Nigori! Stop by the shop from Fri 3-8pm, Sat 1-8pm, and Sun 1-7pm.

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PS- The Maria Hernandez Farmers market is coming back this spring and we plan on joining in again… we’ll fill you in with more info when it starts back up.