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Local brewery brings sake to Toronto

By MELINDA JOE

Toronto’s Distillery District, located on the site of the now defunct Gooderham & Worts Distillery (which was once the largest whisky producer in the world), is a charming enclave of restored brick buildings housing upscale boutiques, cafes and galleries. When Ontario Spring Water Sake Co. opened in April, it also became home to Canada’s third sake brewery, the first on the eastern coast of North America.


UT alumnus brews locally-sourced sake

UT alumnus Yoed Anis started the Texas Sake Company, the first sake brewery in Texas and the first independently owned sake brewery in the U.S. The company held its grand opening on Oct. 1, International Sake Day, and will distribute its first batch next week.

Suisen Shuzo workers make sake at facilities owned by Iwate Meijo Corp., another brewery in Iwate Prefecture that has loaned Suisen the use of its facilities. (Mainichi)

Iwate brewery set to ship sake for first time since tsunami with help of rival

ICHINOSEKI, Iwate — A long-established sake brewery company in the Iwate Prefecture city of Rikuzentakata, which suffered damage in the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, has relaunched its business by renting part of the facilities at another brewery here.