Kamimura Shuzo (神村酒造)
Kamimura Shuzo is a distillery in Uruma City, Okinawa, making awamori under the Danryu, Shurei and Sho names. The business was founded in Naha in 1882. KIKI lists one of its bottles.
- Bottles listed
- 1
- Makes
- Awamori
What kind of distillery is it?
Founded in Naha in 1882, the brewery lost its plant and stored awamori in the war. It started its move toward private operation in 1949 and began oak cask research in 1958. The oak-aged awamori Danryu was released in 1968 after about ten years of development, and in 1999 the brewery moved to the foot of the Ishikawa highlands in Uruma City.
What makes it distinct
- Ingredients
- The raw rice is hard-grain Thai rice.
- Master brewer
- The brewery treats raising black koji through the old-koji method as the starting point of its aged awamori.
- Yeast
- Sho is brewed with a flower yeast taken from Okinawan hibiscus and distilled three times.
- Style
- Danryu uses aged awamori matured in oak casks.
Visiting
- Tours
- Shop
Brewery tours are by reservation, run from 10:00 to 17:00 (last entry 16:00), and cost 500 yen per person including a gift. The brewery is closed during the Obon holiday and from 30 December to 3 January. Several awamori can be tasted after the tour.
Compiled with AI from public pages, mainly the brewery’s own site (not yet checked by the brewery)Sources: kamimura-shuzo.co.jp
Bottles from this distillery
The app finds 24 bottles from this maker by their label (1 on this site).
