Imada Sake Brewing Co.

The Imada family brewery was founded in 1868 in Akitsu, a small port on Hiroshima’s Seto Inland Sea. Miho Imada, the previous owner’s eldest daughter, returned to the family brewery in the 1990s and serves as both president and master brewer. Her work continues Akitsu’s tradition of brewing ginjo sake with soft water and low-temperature fermentation.

In 2001, the brewery began replanting a handful of Hattanso seed, gradually growing enough of this old, low-yielding Hiroshima rice for brewing. Alongside that revival, Imada has experimented with white koji and new rice-polishing methods.