Miscellaneous talk about Japanese sake #31 AEON has a good time

The unmissable pleasure of visiting AEON is that the wine area is huge! Buying wine in AEON is of course drinking at home, because Japan does not have the habit of bringing their own wine to restaurants to open bottles. Of course, some all-you-can-drink restaurants can bring their own wine is another matter. The demand for drinking at home during the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic has expanded, so Minami Kanto AEON retail, AEON liquor and Tokyo Port Brewing have collaborated on a "SUSTAINABLE SAKE PROJECT 地に尤しいお liquor" that omits the rice-washing step.

In the rice washing stage of brewing, about 10 liters of water is needed for 1 kg of rice. It is necessary to save 90% of the water compared with the general rice washing project because the step of washing rice is omitted. Of course, there is no need to discharge the rice washing water and subsequent wastewater treatment, and it also saves a lot of effort. Tokyo Port Brewing is located in the 23 wards of Tokyo, and the brewing water uses water from Tokyo's waterways, which saves a lot of water resources, even if there are more difficulties to overcome in terms of technology.

Because the rice is not washed, the fine white bran remaining on the surface of the rice grains will be saccharified and fermented much faster than the complete rice grains. The brewer must make the water absorption more uniform when the white rice is immersed. Complete sake with complex layers of aroma and taste.

And the sake rice is from Okayama Prefecture! Will there be different specifications for unwashed rice in the future?