Seiryo Shuzo (成龍酒造株式会社)
Seiryo Shuzo is a brewery in Saijo, Ehime, making sake under brands such as Iyo Kagiya and Seiryo Zen.
- Makes
- Sake
- Japan Sake Awards
- 2 prizes
Where to buy
What kind of brewery is it?
Seiryo Shuzo traces its origins to a family house that for generations held the keys to the village headman's rice storehouse during the Edo period. After the headman system was abolished, the ninth head of the house began brewing sake in Meiji 10 (1877). The first sake was a junmai made with well water from the brewery and local rice. Brewing stopped during the Second World War, and the brewery grew through the high-growth era. Today it keeps to local water, rice and the microbes living in the brewery.
What makes it distinct
- Water
- The brewery uses soft water that keeps welling up from underground on its site.
- Ingredients
- The brewery mainly uses rice grown in Ehime and aims to support local farming.
- Style
- Iyo Kagiya is aged at low temperature and made to be drunk with meals.
- Yeast
- Some junmai sake is brewed with the Ehime flower yeast Sakurahime.
Visiting
- Shop
The brewery has a shop at the brewery, closed on Thursdays.
Compiled with AI from public pages, mainly the brewery’s own site (not yet checked by the brewery)Sources: seiryosyuzo.com
Japan Sake Awards
A prize-winner in 2 of the 9 contests from brewing year 2017 to 2025.
Source: the prize lists of the Japan Sake Awards (National Research Institute of Brewing and Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association).