Brewing in Japan w/ Cody Brailsford

Sake On Air · Sep 20, 2019 · 1h 1m

Cody Brailsford is a rather rare breed.

Now fuku-toji (assistant head

brewer) as of this recording, at Watanabe Sake Brewery, makers of Hourai brand

sake in the small countryside town of Hida

Furukawa in Gifu Prefecture, Cody has been toiling away in the brewery for well

over a decade.

As more sake breweries open across the

globe, and as breweries in Japan gradually open their doors (and minds) to the

prospect of greater diversity in the brewery, the number of non-Japanese people

working stints in Japanese sake breweries has grown significantly in recent

years.

However very few have dug in…