Oku Aizu Joryujo (奥会津蒸留所)
Oku Aizu Joryujo is a distillery in Tadami, Fukushima, that grows its own rice, brews and distills it, and makes rice shochu under the Nekka and Baganekka names. The shochu is distilled at 30°C or below. KIKI lists one of its bottles.
- Bottles listed
- 1
- Makes
- Shochu
Where to buy
What kind of distillery is it?
Nekka LLC was set up by four rice farmers and one brewer, and the distillery began in a renovated old traditional house in Tadami in 2017. The company received a special-product shochu licence that year and started making rice shochu under the Nekka name. Its own paddies supply the rice, and mountain spring water is used for the paddies. The yeast was chosen with the brewing course of the Fukushima Prefectural High-Tech Plaza, and the moromi ferments for 25 days before low-temperature distillation at 30°C or below. A licence for sake for export was also granted in 2020.
What makes it distinct
- Water
- The company's own paddies use clean water that wells up from the mountains.
- Ingredients
- The company grows its own sake rice, a variety suited to sake brewing and a Fukushima original sake rice.
- Yeast
- The company uses a sake ginjo yeast chosen with the brewing course of the Fukushima Prefectural High-Tech Plaza to give the shochu an aromatic character.
- Style
- The moromi is brewed in the same way as sake and then distilled at 30°C or below.
- Also
- The moromi is fermented for 25 days.
Compiled with AI from public pages, mainly the brewery’s own site (not yet checked by the brewery)Sources: nekka.jp
Bottles from this distillery
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