{"id":114562,"date":"2025-04-23T07:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craftbeer.com\/?p=114562"},"modified":"2025-04-23T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:48:07","slug":"kanpai-how-sake-is-segueing-into-craft-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craftbeer.com\/full-pour\/kanpai-how-sake-is-segueing-into-craft-beer","title":{"rendered":"Kanpai! How Sake Is Segueing into Craft Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Cooper\u2019s fascination with Japanese food and drink began when he lived in Kyoto, Japan while going to language school. \u201cIt\u2019s been a 20-year rabbit hole for me,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>After initially focusing on Japanese cuisine with a food truck called Wabi Sabi Kitchen, Cooper decided to open a sake brewery at home in Pennsylvania. <a href=\"https:\/\/sangokurasake.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sango Kura<\/a> opened in Delaware Water Gap in July 2018 and Cooper poured the first sake the following November. In 2022, he added Rewind Brewing, working together with his wife, Melissa Hirschhorn, to bring the vision to life.<\/p>\n<p>Sango Kura serves a Junmai Ginjo sake that\u2019s dry hopped with Galaxy and Mosaic. \u201cIt has the nose of an IPA and is floral and fruity,\u201d Cooper explains. This, he believes, is a great way to get beer drinkers interested in trying something new. And offering great food alongside both beer and sake remains a key focus, with a menu consisting of izakaya pub dishes inspired by Japanese cuisine. \u201cWe make all of our noodles by hand,\u201d says Cooper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image half-column\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.craftbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250422212212\/koji-fermentation.jpg\" alt=\"koji fermentation\" class=\"wp-image-114569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.craftbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250422212212\/koji-fermentation.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cdn.craftbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250422212212\/koji-fermentation-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The brewery\u2019s location in Delaware Water Gap is ideal: just as water quality is key to a fantastic beer, so too for sake. \u201cIf you look at a setting of a sake brewery in Japan, it\u2019s always right on top of the best water source,\u201d Cooper says. \u201cThe water has so much to do with the quality of sake, because the flavors are so light and delicate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Koji\u2014cooked rice inoculated with a culture\u2014is the stuff of life for sake. At Sango Kura, the team makes its own despite the intensive process. \u201cWe soak our rice, steam it, and then bring it into a sterile room that we heat up to about 100 degrees for about three days,\u201d Cooper explains. He even stays at the brewery during fermentation so that he can make a quick adjustment if the temperature gets too hot. \u201cIt\u2019s a really beautiful process.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-craft-curious\">Craft Curious<\/h2>\n<p>In London, <a href=\"https:\/\/kanpai.london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kanpai<\/a> (named for a Japanese toast) is a craft sake brewery that was founded in 2016. The brewery started life in Peckham, with a taproom launch in 2018 before moving to a new home in Bermondsey in 2023. The location among the densely packed cluster of breweries in what is known as the Bermondsey Beer Mile\u2014a hotspot for craft drinkers on a taproom crawl\u2014means more passing trade, especially on Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we\u2019re on the Beer Mile, we\u2019re more visible,\u201d says co-founder and head brewer Tom Wilson. Kanpai\u2019s draft-focused taproom creates an environment where beer drinkers feel right at home, and their regular tours offer an educational aspect for those who are curious about the sake brewing process. Wilson found a natural alignment with sake, craft beer, and natural wine. \u201cIt was always about having a really accessible craft product [for] curious, discerning drinkers,\u201d he says. Their sake taproom amid a beer hub offers just that.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.craftbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250422213117\/kanpai-taproom-and-sake.jpg\" alt=\"kanpai sake and taproom\" class=\"wp-image-114573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.craftbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250422213117\/kanpai-taproom-and-sake.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.craftbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250422213117\/kanpai-taproom-and-sake-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Kanpai has also collaborated with craft breweries. They worked with Surrey-based brewery By The Horns to produce Shiro, a Japanese white ale brewed with rice, shiso (an aromatic herb), and yuzu (a bumpy citrus fruit).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re serving on draft is what we call nama sake,\u201d says Wilson, explaining that this version is unpasteurized and raw. It\u2019s best consumed fresh, and better still on the premises on which it was made. \u201cIt\u2019s very rare to get nama sake traveling outside of Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kanpai\u2019s range offers something for all tastes, from 8% ABV offerings such as a sweet plum sake, and another that is sparkling and dry hopped with Nelson Sauvin. There\u2019s also a white koji sake that checks in at 16.5% ABV. \u201cWhite koji makes citric acid, which yellow koji doesn\u2019t,\u201d Wilson explains. \u201cIt makes a highly acidic sake that kind of drinks more like a white wine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many UK drinkers have encountered sake in sushi restaurants, but in a lot of cases, they are still new to exploring craft sake. And while many of the sakes imported from Japan can be more delicate, Wilson notes that many customers are quick to migrate to the heavy hitters. \u201cFirst time, they might start with something light, and then they get more adventurous.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bridging-the-gap\">Bridging the Gap<\/h2>\n<p>In Covina, Calif., <a href=\"https:\/\/novabrewingco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nova Brewing<\/a> is another producer making both sake and beer, after taking over a former craft beer premises (once operated by REV Brewing Company). Nova\u2019s Gravity sake is designed to showcase the state\u2019s Calrose rice, which is polished to 50%. Polishing is the process by which outer layers of grain are milled away, removing protein from the rice which can impact the final taste of the sake. Less rice polishing could typically results in a full body and more umami flavor, whereas more polishing can produce a cleaner and lighter sake.<\/p>\n<p>Nova Brewing was founded in 2019, and while the team waited for about a year to get a sake license, they began making beer. The team\u2019s Ginjo 7 beer project was a mission to bridge the two beverages by brewing beer with sake yeast. \u201cWhen I test batched making beer with sake yeast it created similar aroma and flavor profiles to Belgian style beers\u2026 a lot of fruity esters,\u201d co-founder and head brewer James Jin says. An added benefit of using sake yeast for beer is not having to worry about cross-contamination when making both in the same facility.<\/p>\n<p>The beer is brewed with steamed rice and a simple Pilsner grain bill, then fermented at cold temperatures as with sake brewing. The yeast, Kyokai #701, can easily withstand lagering temperatures. \u201cOur goal with the Ginzo 7 beer was to get craft beer drinkers into sake more,\u201d Jin says, adding that people will often come in for a beer flight and will typically also end up trying some sake afterwards, easily finding one that they like.<\/p>\n<p>For Sango Kura, Kanpai, and Nova Brewing, making a conscious decision to engage craft beer drinkers is helping them take their sake businesses to new audiences. \u201cWe realized that we need to make what we call sake segue products, for people that don\u2019t really know about sake, or those who think they don\u2019t like it,\u201d Cooper says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craft sake brewers are bridging the gap between beer and sake by creating hybrid products, drawing in curious craft drinkers with innovative, approachable takes on traditional Japanese brewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7599,"featured_media":114575,"sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sticky_collection":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"17339,80723,108041,24043,42328,102017","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-full-pour"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.7 (Yoast SEO v26.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kanpai! 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