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How many breweries are there in Japan approxiametly? |
1000 |
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How many koku were produced in japan in 2014-2015? |
2.49 Million. Koku = 180 litres or 20x9 litres |
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How many breweries produce less than 1000koku? |
80 % |
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How many breweries make over 10,000 koku? |
3% |
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How much sake due the largest breweries 1% of breweries produce? Compared to the rest. |
More than half of all sake produced |
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Name the 3 largest producers of sake. |
-Hakutsuru - Takara - Gekkeikan |
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How much sake do Hakutsure, Takara and Gekkeikan produce each? |
Approx 250,000 koku! As much as smallest 80% of breweries combined! |
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Factors affecting cost of sake? |
- Rice type - Rice Grade - Seimaibuai - Style - Futsu-shu or Tokotei-Meisho-shu - Shubo method - Aging |
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How many prefectures are there in Japan? |
47 |
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How many regions are there in Japan? |
8 |
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Which are the 2 most prolific producing prefectures? |
Hyogo and Kyoto - 50% of all production |
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Which prefecture has the most breweries? |
Niigate - 3rd most productive in terms of volume |
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Niigata style? |
Clean, crisp, dry, kire |
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East Coast Style (Miyagi and Shizuoka). |
Tend to be lighter and pure go well with local cold water seafood |
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South-west (Hiroshima and Saga) style? |
Tend to be richer and sweeter |
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West coast style? |
Tend to richer and warmer |
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Central Mountain (Nagano) style? |
Tend to be richer and heavier to go with meat and preseved vegetables |
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Toji |
Head Brewer |
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Kurabito |
Brewery Worker |
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Kuramoto |
Brewery Owner |
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Name the top 3 Toji Guilds? |
-Nenbu -Echigo -Tanba |
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Nanbu? |
- Toji guild in Iwate prefecture - 1/3 of all Toji and Kurabito come from Nanbu - Excellent reputation for education and training |
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Echigo (Niigata) |
- Tsuki-haze advocates - Tanrei-karakuchi - which is the local style of lean dry style with kire finish - Guild is a big contributor to consistent regional style |
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Tanba (Hyogo) |
- So haze advocated - Intense with relatively high umami |
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NRIB |
National Research Institute of Brewing |
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Brewing Society of Japan |
-Established in 1906 - Provides yeast to many breweries and research too. - Published a journal every month |
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