BREWING SAKE & SDGs

BREWING SAKE & SDGs

Sustainable raw material procurement using local resources.

OKAMURA SHUZOJO

Itami Brewers Association

Achievement goal

・The raw materials used are sake rice grown in the company's own fields and local sake rice. The brewery sells sake brewed in harmony with nature, using local water and working in cooperation with local people to protect nature.
・The brewery also sells sake lees from the brewing process, and in collaboration with a local pastry chef, it sells pound cakes made from sake lees and soaps containing junmai sake.
・The female head of the brewery is the master brewer, and she is responsible for everything from rice cultivation to sake brewing.
・The brewery is also committed to the environment, using electric forklifts and LED lights to reduce power consumption in the factory, using reusable bottles and returnable P-boxes, taking broken bottles to recycling companies, and separating the polyethylene and aluminium crowns of sake bottles.