Kiuchi Brewery (木内酒造) is a brewery in
Naka,
Ibaraki Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,828,086 (1 July 2023) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, ...
,
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
. It was established in 1823 by village headman Kiuchi Gihei as a
sake
Sake, , or saki, also referred to as Japanese rice wine, is an alcoholic beverage of Japanese origin made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran. Despite the name ''Japanese rice wine'', sake, and indeed any East Asi ...
and
shochu producer.
Craft beer
Craft beer is beer manufactured by craft breweries, which typically produce smaller amounts of beer than larger "macro" breweries and are often independently owned. Such breweries are generally perceived and marketed as emphasising enthusiasm, ne ...
production began in 1996 after a change in Japanese law governing micro brewing. A number of Kiuchi's products seek to combine European beer-making technology with traditional Japanese brewing techniques; for example, its XH Hitachino Nest Beer is matured in ''
shochu'' casks.
Products
Hitachino Nest Beer
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Amber Ale
Pale ale is a golden to amber coloured beer style brewed with pale malt. The term first appeared in England around 1703 for beers made from malts dried with high-carbon coke, which resulted in a lighter colour than other beers popular at th ...
*Espresso
Stout
Stout is a type of dark beer that is generally warm fermented, such as dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout and imperial stout. Stout is a type of ale.
The first known use of the word "stout" for beer is in a document dated 1677 in the E ...
*Japanese Classic Ale (an
India Pale Ale)
*Lacto
Sweet Stout
*New Year Celebration Ale (a
spiced ale)
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Pale Ale
Pale ale is a golden to amber coloured beer style brewed with pale malt. The term first appeared in England around 1703 for beers made from malts dried with high-carbon coke, which resulted in a lighter colour than other beers popular at th ...
*Real Ginger Ale (a
ginger
Ginger (''Zingiber officinale'') is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. It is an herbaceous perennial that grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of l ...
flavoured ale)
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Red Rice
Red rice is rice that is colored red due to natural anthocyanin content. It is usually eaten unpolished or partially polished, and has a red bran layer, rather than the more common pale brown. Red rice has a nutty flavor. It has the highest nut ...
Ale
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White Ale
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Weizen
*XH (a
Belgian strong ale)
*Dai Dai (Orange IPA)
*Yuzu
Lager
Lager (; ) is a Type of beer, style of beer brewed and Brewing#Conditioning, conditioned at low temperature. Lagers can be Pale lager, pale, Amber lager, amber, or Dark lager, dark. Pale lager is the most widely consumed and commercially availab ...
Sake
*Gekkakow
*Kurakagami
*Kurahibiki
*Kurashizuku
*Asamurasaki
*Taruzake
Shochu
*Kiuchi
See also
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Beer in Japan
Beer in Japan mostly comes from the country's four major breweries, Asahi Breweries, Asahi, Kirin Company, Kirin, Sapporo Brewery, Sapporo and Suntory, which mainly produce pale lagers around 5% ABV. Beer is immensely popular, far ahead of sake ...
References
External links
Kiuchi Brewery official siteBeer in Japan - Making beer at the Kiuchi Brewery, Ibaraki
Companies established in 1823
Beer in Japan
Companies based in Ibaraki Prefecture
Food and drink companies established in 1823
Naka, Ibaraki
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